Mokilese English

[aiʔ] noun mine

sentence why are you here

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

pron. ours

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n parrotfish

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

wash someone

paternal grandmother

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

[ia omʷunu] sentence where is your mother

noun high

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

canoe connecting fibers

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun finger

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

ship

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[jɔː war ewar] sentence I don’t have a canoe

bowstring

[jo:jo] n piece of wood under the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun puffer fish

Example: Yellow form by Onderwijsgek, 2012, CC-BY-S 3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

adj. possible

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

noun eat

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

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

[keinin eɾe] n wooden poles the run perpendicular to the apid and kia, on the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun broom

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

word

tongue

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be pregnant

red ant

true

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[men] classifier for people

noun breastmilk

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun head

hungry

adj. brown

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[ŋɔː na kiɔn pit͡ʃu wɔlu] sentence I gave the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

boiled

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

pron. your

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n goatfish

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

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

wife

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[piʃ men o] that pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sand

river

dirty

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

mud

heat (v)

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal uncle

n a piece of wood across the top edge of the canoe that holds the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fashion earrings

singer

noun meat

house

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dog bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson