Mokilese English

[aiʔ] noun mine

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

[aɾai] theirs

num. ten

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fan

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

one

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ia omʷunu] sentence where is your mother

noun high

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun east

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

ill, become

buttocks

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fingernail

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hell

Speaker: Monique 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

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fist

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

very old woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be pregnant

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash clothes

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun monkey

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweet

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː polobidi sugo ʃilɔː] sentence I cut the tree with the axe

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull in

verb, transitive burn

verb prepare

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun sprouting coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

armpit

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

freed, be

defecate (shit)

wing

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

thigh

will be

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishing pole

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

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

n batfish

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

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fashion earrings

noun meat

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

wet, become

village

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

rain

Speaker: Danio Poll