Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

spit (v)

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun people of Mwoakilloa

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun elected chief

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

ninety

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

other person

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ia omʷunu] sentence where is your mother

pronoun he, she, it

Speaker: Danio Poll

seventy

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

cook

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpen

priest

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o doːda in sugo] sentence the boy climbed up the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to be poor

cry

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

sun

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

watch (v)

noun fence

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

noun heel

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. pregnant

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

true

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb want

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit (v)

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

silent

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː t͡ʃɔpa iːla mɔ ai:o] sentence I did not go there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liː o poɾi t͡ʃeto] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

drunk, get

broken

verb, transitive burn

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sprouting coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urinate (piss)

noun ground

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweat

noun full moon

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to be broken or deflowered

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

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. wide

verb fly

Speaker: Danio Poll

hear

adj. powerful

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun gecko

farmer

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n banana

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