Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

his

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

tiger

verb enter

Speaker: Macy Edgar

wash self

twelve

noun mangrove crab

Example: Mangrove Boardwalk, Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, South Queensland, AUSTRALIA by Bernard Dupont, 2000, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

other person

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

sad

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

in morning

thumb

trap (v)

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o kupolai t͡ʃaŋ in sugo] sentence the boy fell down from the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

push

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

[jɔrɔkli] n on the side of a sailing canoe to hold the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

never

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

second

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

put

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

n stairs

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun cloud

tusk

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hold

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

tongue

widow

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

n death

eldest brother

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun breastmilk

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

male

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun head

noun monkey

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo pɔː] sentence I will not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun north

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pull in

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun pipe

float

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

coconut milk (handmade)

Speaker: Danio Poll

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

recognize

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

n Kind of jellyfish

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

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

day before yesterday

noun maternal uncle

pull open

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun piece of wood on the side of a sailing canoe that holds the sail lines

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

separated, be

seven

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

house

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

pull

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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