Mokilese English

[aiʔ] noun mine

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

[derəwak] n the place on the canoe where ropes are tied

Speaker: Ichiro John

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun duck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

twelve

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

interro. how much

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pronoun he, she, it

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun high

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sad

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n scaleless fish

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

sharpen

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

kind

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[t͡ʃimʷ] n the rail on top of the canoe; above the kapwidpwid; prevents water from entering the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

[jɔrɔkli] n on the side of a sailing canoe to hold the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

n steel drum

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

n sweetheart

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

pronoun you (two)

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

num. fourth

Speaker: Danio Poll

see

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elbow

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. very poor

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (tell untruth)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb smell

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest sister

[men] classifier for people

[mɔn] your

verb to kiss

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpening tool

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

river

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

will be

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

v To have one’s first sexual experience (slang)

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

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun day

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly

Speaker: Danio Poll

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

wet, become

wet

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar