Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal grandmother

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

thirty

[t͡ʃimʷen re:l] n the rail on top of the canoe and near the front end; above the kapwidpwid; prevents water from entering the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

be quiet

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

[jɔrɔkli] n on the side of a sailing canoe to hold the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

ill, become

shaman

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

see

vi to put a spell on a tree to prevent others from gathering the fruit, usually also involves a physical, be cursed

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

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun body fat, grease

Speaker: Thakar Peter

big

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

pronoun you (singular)

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

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

tusk

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun ocean area outside and approximate to the barrier reef

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb smell

sniff

verb jump

Speaker: Danio Poll

yawn

malaria

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I have a canoe

sharpening tool

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

male

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

when

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃupakiɔ pit͡ʃu oldo] sentence I did not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo pɔː] sentence I will not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

armpit

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

wild boar

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hand

wing

thief

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hut

Speaker: Danio Poll

v To have one’s first sexual experience (slang)

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

noun basket

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

n a piece of wood across the top edge of the canoe that holds the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

v to try to break or deflower

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

twenty

noun maternal uncle

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun meat

noun remain

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

one man

Speaker: Danio Poll