Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

[amai] yours (plural)

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n lump

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

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

[eː mɔi juːmʷen] sentence yes, I am sick

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

num. ten

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun maternal grandfather

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb press

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

seventy

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sneeze

n bluefin tuna

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

push

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

hello

vi to alow a tentacle to be bitten off in order to escape the sea eel (of an octopus)

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

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouse

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

big

noun hell

Speaker: Monique Poll

[kɔsɔ t͡ʃeltu] n the wooden back of the pahj, on the outrigger side

Speaker: Ichiro John

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb hold

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

tongue

[liː o uli lamoi poɾin t͡ʃeto] sentence the woman went with me to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

mad

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

kiss

red ant

n bracelet

noun ocean area very far from reef

spear

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun head

sit down

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pennant bannerfish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː polobidi sugo ʃilɔː] sentence I cut the tree with the axe

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[nitin pɔŋ] n the section of the canoe on the other side of the outrigger; includes the poang, koasoau jaldu, pahj, etc.

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

every

verb, transitive burn

noun puddle

[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

noun nest

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

dirty

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

wing

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

why

burned

night

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb begin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hear

copulate (have sex with)

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

raise

noun blow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fruit

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John