Mokilese English

sentence why are you here

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

many people

wash someone

nineteen

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

bleed

blood

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

weak

salt

verb remain

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

three

Speaker: Macy Edgar

no

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

shaman

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

buttocks

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

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

black ant (large, stings)

noun heel

noun cloud

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

pronoun you (singular)

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

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

mad

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

red ant

noun ocean area very far from reef

yawn

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liː o poɾi t͡ʃeto] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hide

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

broken

[pa:t͡ʃ] n a sitting place on the edge of the canoe, on top of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pipe

hat

hammock

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃo ʃen nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran out from the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

tie

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun forearm

hand

noun clown triggerfish

Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

will be

heat (v)

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweat

n batfish

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

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. wide

fly (v)

story

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun leaf

farmer

summer

raise

[wa:n pʷit͡ʃ] n two wooden poles that sit vertically on top of the outrigger and connect to the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

eighty

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

lift open

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll