Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

spit (v)

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

elder

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

starve

pay

paternal grandfather

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

lice, body

who

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

slow

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o mɔi nen amako] sentence the boy is sleeping in the hammock

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

bowstring

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

[jo:jo] n piece of wood under the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

hello

noun eat

watch (v)

verb exchange, to

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

[ke:rup] n a wooden ridge below the canoe that protects the bottom from coral and keeps the canoe steady in the water

Speaker: Ichiro John

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kia] n the two wooden poles in the middle of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

very old woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pregnant

waist

n crab

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

here

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I have a canoe

sharpening tool

noun canned milk (store bought)

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

how

noun monkey

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

young man

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

tooth

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[ŋɔː na kiɔn pit͡ʃu wɔlu] sentence I gave the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hide

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

river

hand

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

friend

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun foot

noun knee

noun day

sister

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ear

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

summer

fruit

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

lift open

one man

Speaker: Danio Poll