Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

spit (v)

what

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

starve

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb press

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sad

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

slow

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o mɔi nen amako] sentence the boy is sleeping in the hammock

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[t͡ʃimʷ] n the rail on top of the canoe; above the kapwidpwid; prevents water from entering the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb to be poor

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

yesterday

noun smoke

verb exchange, to

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

rat

fall

noun body fat, grease

Speaker: Thakar Peter

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ t͡ʃeltu] n the wooden back of the pahj, on the outrigger side

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hold

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

think

[liː o uli lamoi poɾin t͡ʃeto] sentence the woman went with me to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb lie (tell untruth)

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hip

verb jump

Speaker: Danio Poll

honey

thirsty, be

death

how

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

traditional chief

noun ocean

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ] sentence I am not going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

have children

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

hide

receive

noun coconut in its last stage of development (meat is hard, husk is brown, coconut fallen from tree)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

every

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

son-in-law

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

young woman

youngest sister

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

every day

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

brother

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun remain

house

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

turtle

wet, become

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun isolated parts of the reef

Speaker: Danio Poll