Mokilese English

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

n lump

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

drum

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

noun maternal grandfather

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

where

sea snake

noun high

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

bleed

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

n skipjack (fish)

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

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb to be poor

noun year, age

n sweetheart

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

yesterday

hello

[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

noun a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

rich

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

tongue

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be pregnant

num. five

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb smell

wash clothes

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest brother

old

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

raw

sweet

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

leech

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

tooth

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo wɔlo] sentence I will give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

pron. your

Speaker: Macy Edgar

v sexually experienced

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

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

hat

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun sprouting coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest brother

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

wild boar

urinate (piss)

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

river

wing

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷai] n a piece wood that holds down the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun cave

shell

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

every day

day before yesterday

v to try to break or deflower

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

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hear

separated, be

hut

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

one man

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll