Mokilese English

noun egg

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

trail

n parrotfish

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

pay

yes

[eː mɔi juːmʷen] sentence yes, I am sick

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun mangrove crab

Example: Mangrove Boardwalk, Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, South Queensland, AUSTRALIA by Bernard Dupont, 2000, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal grandfather

mother-in-law

seventy

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharp

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

vi to be born

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

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. low

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun priest

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

n rope that is tied to the canoe to hold the sail in place; there is one joahmwur on either side of the sail (front and back)

Speaker: Danio Poll

bowstring

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

cry

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

n playing card

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

noun smoke

pronoun you (two)

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

find

thousand

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

black ant (large, stings)

noun elbow

[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

noun cloud

pronoun you (singular)

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

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

think

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n unidentified fish species

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

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun ocean area very far from reef

n crab

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

n spear for fishing

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

thirsty, be

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun breastmilk

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

leech

hungry, be

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

boiled

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

receive

every

husband

son-in-law

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

hat

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun forearm

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

wing

verb swim

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

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

say

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun smell

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

n hair swirl, said to be mark of a naughty child

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

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun maternal uncle

adj. thin

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

star

house

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wa:n pʷit͡ʃ] n two wooden poles that sit vertically on top of the outrigger and connect to the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

eighty

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wɔlo me kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man gave the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll