Mokilese English

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun elected chief

what

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

drum

save

nineteen

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sad

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

n love

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

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun priest

child

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puffer fish

Example: Yellow form by Onderwijsgek, 2012, CC-BY-S 3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

n steel drum

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

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kapʷʉdpʷʉd] n a ridge sticking out from the sides of a canoe that protects the inside of it from high waves

Speaker: Ichiro John

mouse

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

big

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

[liː o uli lamoi poɾin t͡ʃeto] sentence the woman went with me to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. pregnant

verb lie (tell untruth)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb smell

kiss

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean area very far from reef

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

spear

death

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

frighten

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃu] sentence I don’t see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

there

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut in its last stage of development (meat is hard, husk is brown, coconut fallen from tree)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puddle

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

free

noun forearm

recognize

noun clown triggerfish

Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

say

[pʷakəlap] n where the main mast is placed, in the middle of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

tribe

[pʷit͡ʃ] n a wooden pole that sits above and paralell to the outrigger, on top of the kia; keeps the outrigger flexible

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

v To have one’s first sexual experience (slang)

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

noun full moon

n hair swirl, said to be mark of a naughty child

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

adj. thin

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun piece of wood on the side of a sailing canoe that holds the sail lines

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

blue

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn