Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

trail

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

[aɾai] theirs

noun people of Mwoakilloa

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n surgeon fish

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

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ia omʷunu] sentence where is your mother

noun east

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharp

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

return

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o kupolai t͡ʃaŋ in sugo] sentence the boy fell down from the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

bowstring

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

try

noun year, age

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

noun eat

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elbow

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun ocean area outside and approximate to the barrier reef

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

n spear for fishing

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

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

this

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

male

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

leech

hungry

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

old (person)

noun ocean

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

boiled

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

hidden

pron. your

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun dream

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut crab

Example: Crancs dels cocoters a Bora-Bora. by Brocken Inaglory, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0 via ca.wikipedia.org

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[piʃ men o] that pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urinate (piss)

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

friend

noun excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

n batfish

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

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun maternal uncle

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

verb begin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

strong

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

raise

twin

vomit

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

feather

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll