Mokilese English

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[amai] yours (plural)

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash self

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash someone

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun maternal grandfather

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

slow

noun priest

toe

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

return

kind

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

[jo:jo] n piece of wood under the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun moon, month

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

n sweetheart

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

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smoke

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

[keinin eɾe] n wooden poles the run perpendicular to the apid and kia, on the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

n spine foot (fish)

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

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

red ant

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

rich

salivate

noun cloud

verb lie (tell untruth)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean area very far from reef

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

n death

male

pain

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun head

raw

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun pennant bannerfish

Example: Pennant Bannerfish (Heniochus chrysostomus) by Cliff, 2008, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun puddle

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

four

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest sister

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[piʃ men o] that pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

tie

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

friend

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

[pʷakəlap] n where the main mast is placed, in the middle of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

thief

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun maternal uncle

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

wet, become

wet

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll