Mokilese English

[aiʔ] noun mine

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

elder

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adjective dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

where

rainbow

verb press

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse, head

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

thumb

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n bluefin tuna

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

no

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

hello

[kapʷʉdpʷʉd] n a ridge sticking out from the sides of a canoe that protects the inside of it from high waves

Speaker: Ichiro John

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fingernail

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

red ant

noun cloud

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[mɔn] your

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

sharpening tool

male

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry, be

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

son

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

there

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

broken

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

four

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun forearm

hand

recognize

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

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

why

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

young

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

copulate (have sex with)

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. powerful

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

wet, become

make

feather

one man

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wɔlo piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn