Mokilese English

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

[derəwak] n the place on the canoe where ropes are tied

Speaker: Ichiro John

n surgeon fish

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

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal grandmother

noun maternal grandfather

adjective dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

where

verb press

seventy

seven hundred

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

canoe connecting fibers

Speaker: Ichiro John

priest

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

cry

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

throw

[keinin eɾe] n wooden poles the run perpendicular to the apid and kia, on the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun body fat, grease

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

word

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb lie (tell untruth)

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun piece of wood on the tip of the kehu that holds all the lines attached to the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

sky

red ant

wash clothes

here

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

young man

leech

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

born, be

there

pron. your

Speaker: Macy Edgar

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃo ʃen nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran out from the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urinate (piss)

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun forearm

hand

noun ground

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

why

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun maternal uncle

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb begin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun ear

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

singer

[wa:n pʷit͡ʃ] n two wooden poles that sit vertically on top of the outrigger and connect to the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wɔlu t͡ʃuːpa kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man did not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[wɔlo me kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man gave the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter