Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

[armaʒ dapɔ pono pinit͡ʃi] sentence how many people are going on the ship

n surgeon fish

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

adj lumpy

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

yes

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

interro. how much

Speaker: Danio Poll

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

n scaleless fish

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

slow

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. low

Speaker: Danio Poll

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

weak

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

child

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

ship

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun moon, month

verb dry

n steel drum

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

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

watch (v)

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heel

bow

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

widow

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb touching one’s nose to a child’s forehead

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

true

sharpening tool

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ] sentence I am not going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

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

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

boiled

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hide

v sexually experienced

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

verb dream of (something)

Speaker: Danio Poll

broken

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

obey

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

sand

wing

say

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hot

tribe

noun smell

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. powerful

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

waterfall

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

raise

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

pull

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

west

make

[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