Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

who

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

blood

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

return

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb remain

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

n skipjack (fish)

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

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

thirty

be quiet

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

ill, become

try

shaman

noun year, age

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

chicken

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

yesterday

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mouse

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

undress

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fist

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

word

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[liː o nikit͡ʃan pumpo wɔlo] sentence the woman took the fish from the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb be pregnant

back

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

[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

sky

noun hip

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

scared

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun intestines

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

tooth

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ] sentence I am not going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃu] sentence I don’t see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dream of (something)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make by weaving

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green coconut

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pit͡ʃo ʃen nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran out from the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

defecate (shit)

[pɔŋ] n wooden platform on the top of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun ground

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

mud

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

night

Speaker: Danio Poll

young

n hair swirl, said to be mark of a naughty child

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

every day

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

copulate (have sex with)

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree

pull

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wɔlu t͡ʃuːpa kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man did not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter