Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

[amai] yours (plural)

sentence why are you here

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[armaʒ dapɔ pono pinit͡ʃi] sentence how many people are going on the ship

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

num. ten

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun maternal grandfather

rainbow

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

n scaleless fish

Speaker: Harrison, Seldon P. and Salich Albert. 1977

sharpen

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

Speaker: Harrison, Seldon P. and Salich Albert. 1977

gonorrhea

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

ship

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

ill, become

verb dry

n playing card

Speaker: Harrison, Seldon P. and Salich Albert. 1977

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

thousand

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

comb (v)

bow

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fist

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean area outside and approximate to the barrier reef

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

waist

wash clothes

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

malaria

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n traditional circlet used as a sign of welcome; generally made of flowers and/or palm leaves

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

frighten

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nausea; start to get sea sick, but cannot vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun intestines

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry, be

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. brown

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

that

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

v sexually experienced

Speaker: Harrison, Seldon P. and Salich Albert. 1977

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

husband

wife

noun pipe

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sprouting coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

tie

noun clown triggerfish

Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

mud

hot

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knee

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fashion earrings

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

summer

noun meat

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb play

hut

wet

one man

Speaker: Danio Poll

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n banana

Speaker: Harrison, Seldon P. and Salich Albert. 1977