Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence why are you here

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

which

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

drum

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

[eː mɔi juːmʷen] sentence yes, I am sick

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun east

seventy

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

blood

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

toe

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

sneeze

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[jɔː war ewar] sentence I don’t have a canoe

sun

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

shaman

verb clean

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

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb exchange, to

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

n papaya

put

red ant

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heel

noun bow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bow

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

rich

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

think

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

blind

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirsty, be

n death

[men] classifier for people

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nausea; start to get sea sick, but cannot vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun monkey

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

boiled

left

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

hide

receive

pull in

v sexually experienced

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

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green coconut

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

urinate (piss)

arm

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

mud

n tip of penis (slang)

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

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

today

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

summer

seven

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wɔlo juːpa piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John