Mokilese English

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[aɾai] theirs

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elected chief

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

ninety

num. ten

Speaker: Macy Edgar

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven hundred

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

blood

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun finger

n skipjack (fish)

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

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

n playing card

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

third

feed

noun eat

find

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

roof

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kɔsɔ t͡ʃeltu] n the wooden back of the pahj, on the outrigger side

Speaker: Ichiro John

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun a line held by a person in the back of the canoe that helps to control the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

mad

n unidentified fish species

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

[mɔn] your

sentence I have a canoe

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

leech

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sit down

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

old (person)

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pennant bannerfish

Example: Pennant Bannerfish (Heniochus chrysostomus) by Cliff, 2008, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo pɔː] sentence I will not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

snore

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

son

have children

born, be

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hide

Speaker: Danio Poll

pron. your

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

broken

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urinate (piss)

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

recognize

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hot

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun foot

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun basket

Speaker: Thakar Peter

v to try to break or deflower

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

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull open

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb begin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

singer

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

vomit

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

fruit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll