Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

[aiʔ] noun mine

noun elected chief

many people

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

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fan

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

lice, body

cook

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

thumb

sharpen

trap (v)

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o doːda in sugo] sentence the boy climbed up the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

thank you

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

num. fourth

Speaker: Danio Poll

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

comb (v)

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

big

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

think

mad

verb jump

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. happy

male

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nausea; start to get sea sick, but cannot vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry

old (person)

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

ocean

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃa] sentence I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

drunk, get

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hide

v sexually experienced

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

noun coconut in its last stage of development (meat is hard, husk is brown, coconut fallen from tree)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

wife

four

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bear

Speaker: Thakar Peter

coconut milk (handmade)

Speaker: Danio Poll

wild boar

river

noun bridge

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

why

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

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

adj. thin

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

strong

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

turtle

sixty

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

wet

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter