Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence why are you here

noun people of Mwoakilloa

Speaker: Ichiro John

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb enter

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

yes

twelve

noun maternal grandfather

dry

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

rainbow

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

sea snake

seven hundred

louse, head

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o doːda in sugo] sentence the boy climbed up the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun moon, month

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smoke

thank you

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

second

[ke:rup] n a wooden ridge below the canoe that protects the bottom from coral and keeps the canoe steady in the water

Speaker: Ichiro John

vi to alow a tentacle to be bitten off in order to escape the sea eel (of an octopus)

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

n papaya

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

put

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hold

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

mad

verb smell

here

Speaker: Danio Poll

[mɔn] your

sharpening tool

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb want

old (person)

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

left

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishing pole

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

night

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweat

young

every day

v to be broken or deflowered

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

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

n party (celebration)

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

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

hear

adj. powerful

story

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

raise

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wɔlo me kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man gave 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 dog bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

hail

n banana

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