Mokilese English

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

[amai] yours (plural)

sentence why are you here

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

shoulder

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb jerk

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

yes

twelve

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fan

verb press

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

ripe

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

vi to be born

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

slow

sharpen

trap (v)

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

child

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

push

ship

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. possible

noun smoke

[kia] n the two wooden poles in the middle of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heel

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

tusk

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (tell untruth)

Speaker: Danio Poll

widow

waist

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n spear for fishing

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

adj. happy

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[men] classifier for people

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

ripe coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun money

verb want

traditional chief

when

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ] sentence I am not going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃɔpa iːla mɔ ai:o] sentence I did not go there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃu] sentence I don’t see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

broken

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urinate (piss)

freed, be

friend

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

why

heat (v)

noun small hole (in wall, paper, etc.)

Speaker: Danio Poll

twenty

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

story

farmer

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

twin

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

fruit

Speaker: Danio Poll

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wɔlo piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter