Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash someone

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

how much

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

seventy

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

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

vi to force

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

slow

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sun

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

send

yesterday

third

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun eat

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

we know each other

skin

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

n spine foot (fish)

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

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fist

verb talk

tongue

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

think

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

mad

noun green lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

kiss

red ant

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest sister

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

pain

worm

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

v sexually experienced

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

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make by weaving

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

four

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

float

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bear

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

coconut milk (handmade)

Speaker: Danio Poll

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

defecate (shit)

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hole

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun day

day before yesterday

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

hear

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

story

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

rain

Speaker: Danio Poll

hail