Mokilese English

his

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun elected chief

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash someone

starve

dry

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpen

return

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb remain

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

child

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n bluefin tuna

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

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

bowstring

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

never

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

watch (v)

see

throw

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[ki:l] n small wooden ridge underneath either side of a canoe, as well as underneath an outrigger, to protect the bottom

Speaker: Ichiro John

mouse

rat

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. very poor

tongue

[liː o nikit͡ʃan pumpo wɔlo] sentence the woman took the fish from the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. beautiful

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

verb jump

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I have a canoe

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

how

sweet

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

worm

old (person)

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ] sentence I am not going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

that

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

every

hat

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green coconut

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃo kaula nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran into the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

water

river

hand

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun clown triggerfish

Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun full moon

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. powerful

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fashion earrings

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun blow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

blue

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fruit

feather

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar