Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

his

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

spit (v)

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

tiger

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

n lump

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

wash self

wash someone

nineteen

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse, head

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

who

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

blood

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

trap (v)

kind

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun eat

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive break

tusk

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pregnant

noun ocean area outside and approximate to the barrier reef

num. five

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[lɔ:n jɔ:mʷur] n where the line holding down the sail is tied; near the end of the canoe but before the repiakiak

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun hip

n bracelet

verb touching one’s nose to a child’s forehead

Speaker: Danio Poll

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

spear

n traditional circlet used as a sign of welcome; generally made of flowers and/or palm leaves

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[men] classifier for people

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

noun monkey

raw

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː t͡ʃupakiɔ pit͡ʃu oldo] sentence I did not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[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

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

coconut milk (handmade)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[piʃ men o] that pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

free

noun bridge

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ground

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun foot

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweat

n tip of penis (slang)

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

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

today

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun ear

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb play

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

eighty

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll