Mokilese English

trail

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence why are you here

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

save

n large lizard introduced by the Japanese to Mokil Atoll; may possibly be a Mangrove Monitor (Varanus indicus)

pay

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

who

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpen

kind

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

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

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fence

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fingernail

noun body fat, grease

Speaker: Thakar Peter

red ant

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

widow

verb smell

sniff

noun hip

n crab

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

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n death

male

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

smooth

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun head

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun money

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly

green

traditional chief

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

snore

drunk, get

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden, be

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

every

hat

Speaker: Macy Edgar

armpit

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest brother

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb escape

defecate (shit)

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun foot

noun cave

v To have one’s first sexual experience (slang)

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

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

every day

day before yesterday

twenty

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun remain

verb play

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

west

sixty

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

wet

[wɔlo piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

n banana

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