Mokilese English

[amai] yours (plural)

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash self

num. ten

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice, body

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n scaleless fish

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

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

trap (v)

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

thirty

cry

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

shaman

n sweetheart

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

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

twist open

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elbow

noun bow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

tusk

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fist

verb talk

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

kiss

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

n crab

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

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest brother

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

how

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweet

young man

worm

noun intestines

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

sit down

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃupakiɔ pit͡ʃu oldo] sentence I did not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut tree

left

there

verb prepare

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pipe

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

coconut milk (handmade)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pʷai] n a piece wood that holds down the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

heat (v)

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweat

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

day after tomorrow

sister

brother

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

waterfall

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

stop

seven

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

house

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

sixty

make

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

one man

Speaker: Danio Poll