Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

pron. ours

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

twelve

cook

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[jɔː war ewar] sentence I don’t have a canoe

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

chicken

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sweetheart

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

twist open

[ke:rup] n a wooden ridge below the canoe that protects the bottom from coral and keeps the canoe steady in the water

Speaker: Ichiro John

vi to put a spell on a tree to prevent others from gathering the fruit, usually also involves a physical, be cursed

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

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

tired

noun hell

Speaker: Monique Poll

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. very poor

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

widow

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hip

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

leech

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

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

clean

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut crab

Example: Crancs dels cocoters a Bora-Bora. by Brocken Inaglory, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0 via ca.wikipedia.org

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pa:t͡ʃ] n a sitting place on the edge of the canoe, on top of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pipe

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[piʃ men o] that pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃo kaula nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran into the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

night

Speaker: Danio Poll

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to be broken or deflowered

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

sister-in-law

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

fly (v)

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun ear

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

separated, be

tree

stop

star

understand

wet, become

sixty

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs