Mokilese English

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

tiger

other person

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharp

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dawn

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

vi to force

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

vi to be born

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

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

weak

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bluefin tuna

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

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

never

send

n steel drum

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

noun smoke

twist open

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

skin

roof

noun bow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

think

back

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun green lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun ocean area very far from reef

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpening tool

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun head

raw

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun north

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[piʃ men o] that pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

free

urinate (piss)

verb escape

noun ground

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

friend

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hut

Speaker: Danio Poll

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

n tip of penis (slang)

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

every day

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

waterfall

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

raise

house

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

west

understand

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll

hail