Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

what

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

many people

verb jerk

wash self

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

mother-in-law

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

seventy

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

slow

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o mɔi nen amako] sentence the boy is sleeping in the hammock

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n bluefin tuna

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

thirty

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[t͡ʃimʷen re:l] n the rail on top of the canoe and near the front end; above the kapwidpwid; prevents water from entering the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

n rope that is tied to the canoe to hold the sail in place; there is one joahmwur on either side of the sail (front and back)

Speaker: Danio Poll

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

sun

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

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

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n spine foot (fish)

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

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hell

Speaker: Monique Poll

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

pronoun you (singular)

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

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

word

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

think

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest brother

eldest sister

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

how

sweet

leech

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden

take

v sexually experienced

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

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut crab

Example: Crancs dels cocoters a Bora-Bora. by Brocken Inaglory, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0 via ca.wikipedia.org

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puddle

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

free

wild boar

recognize

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

will be

paternal uncle

first

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

singer

raise

seven

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun blow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

village

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wɔlo juːpa piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs