Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun egg

shoulder

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

maternal grandmother

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

seventy

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

trap (v)

kind

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

sick

chicken

Speaker: Danio Poll

send

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kia] n the two wooden poles in the middle of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

rat

undress

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

word

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb be pregnant

num. five

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

sky

wash clothes

scared

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirsty, be

n death

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb to kiss

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun head

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

have

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

silent

when

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

drunk, get

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

boiled

noun north

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun dream

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb fry

Speaker: Danio Poll

obey

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[piʃ men o] that pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hot

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

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

noun small hole (in wall, paper, etc.)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to be broken or deflowered

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

v to try to break or deflower

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

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

brother in law

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

brother

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

singer

separated, be

twin

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wa:n pʷit͡ʃ] n two wooden poles that sit vertically on top of the outrigger and connect to the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll