Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n parrotfish

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

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

maternal grandmother

adjective dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fan

rainbow

seventy

lice, body

sad

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

thumb

noun priest

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

see

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

thousand

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ki:l] n small wooden ridge underneath either side of a canoe, as well as underneath an outrigger, to protect the bottom

Speaker: Ichiro John

rat

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

[kɔsɔ t͡ʃeltu] n the wooden back of the pahj, on the outrigger side

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fist

verb talk

[liː o nikit͡ʃan pumpo wɔlo] sentence the woman took the fish from the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun ocean area outside and approximate to the barrier reef

mad

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

pain

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

raw

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb want

green

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

have

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will not go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃupakiɔ pit͡ʃu oldo] sentence I did not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

pron. your

Speaker: Macy Edgar

set on fire

noun nest

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun bear

Speaker: Thakar Peter

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hot

noun foot

hole

night

Speaker: Danio Poll

n batfish

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

noun day

day before yesterday

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

brother in law

brother

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

separated, be

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

wet, become

verb do

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wɔlo me kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man gave the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn