Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

trail

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

pron. ours

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n lump

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

drum

noun duck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi to be born

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

noun finger

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

child

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to be poor

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

try

third

find

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

new

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun heel

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

tongue

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb touching one’s nose to a child’s forehead

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirsty, be

[mɔn] your

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

have

noun ocean

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo pɔː] sentence I will not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː polobidi sugo ʃilɔː] sentence I cut the tree with the axe

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut tree

boiled

left

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull in

verb prepare

wife

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green coconut

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

freed, be

arm

wing

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

say

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

night

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

n tip of penis (slang)

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

noun knee

n hair swirl, said to be mark of a naughty child

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

v to try to break or deflower

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

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

blue

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

understand

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n banana

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