Mokilese English

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

his

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[aiʔ] noun mine

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

[amai] yours (plural)

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

tiger

n lump

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

verb enter

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

n love

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

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

little finger

weak

salt

n Idiot or fool (jack-ass)

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

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

three

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

verb to be poor

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

never

noun eat

verb exchange, to

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

n papaya

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouse

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

skin

noun hell

Speaker: Monique Poll

pronoun you (singular)

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

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

mad

n unidentified fish species

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

red ant

yawn

n crab

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

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

this

eldest sister

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun intestines

ripe coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

have

have children

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

n goatfish

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

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

freed, be

defecate (shit)

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

thigh

friend

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

heat (v)

shell

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

twenty

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree

seven

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wɔlo piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn