Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

save

starve

noun leg

noun fan

one

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

cook

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

noun priest

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

be quiet

bowstring

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

thousand

put

noun body fat, grease

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[lɔ:n jɔ:mʷur] n where the line holding down the sail is tied; near the end of the canoe but before the repiakiak

Speaker: Ichiro John

sky

noun ocean area very far from reef

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest brother

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

female

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun monkey

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun money

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

sit down

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃu] sentence I don’t see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut tree

[nitin pɔŋ] n the section of the canoe on the other side of the outrigger; includes the poang, koasoau jaldu, pahj, etc.

Speaker: Ichiro John

left

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

take

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

noun bear

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

dirty

freed, be

thief

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[pʷit͡ʃ] n a wooden pole that sits above and paralell to the outrigger, on top of the kia; keeps the outrigger flexible

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun foot

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

sister

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sister-in-law

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

noun fashion earrings

noun leaf

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

raise

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

sixty

verb do

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter