Mokilese English

[amai] yours (plural)

[aɾai] theirs

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

tiger

n a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal grandfather

maternal grandmother

noun eel

Example: Snowflake moray, Echidna nebulosa in Kona, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, United States by Brocken Inaglory, 2008, CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun he, she, it

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice, body

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun finger

return

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb remain

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

child

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

ship

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

be quiet

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

third

adj. possible

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n papaya

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb hold

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[liː o nikit͡ʃan pumpo wɔlo] sentence the woman took the fish from the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb be pregnant

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

waist

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

n crab

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

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest sister

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

smooth

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

have

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo wɔlo] sentence I will give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

clean

there

verb be prepared

noun coconut crab

Example: Crancs dels cocoters a Bora-Bora. by Brocken Inaglory, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0 via ca.wikipedia.org

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

wing

recognize

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun full moon

noun basket

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

day after tomorrow

today

twenty

brother in law

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

tear

singer

blue

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

understand

wet, become

village

[wɔlu t͡ʃuːpa kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man did not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll