Mokilese English

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

elder

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

which

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb jerk

wash hair

noun leg

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun maternal grandfather

adjective dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

one

Speaker: Macy Edgar

where

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

ripe

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

thumb

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

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

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. possible

feed

noun eat

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun fingernail

bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun body fat, grease

Speaker: Thakar Peter

red ant

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

rich

[kɔsɔ t͡ʃeltu] n the wooden back of the pahj, on the outrigger side

Speaker: Ichiro John

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bracelet

yawn

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

frighten

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

raw

sweet

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

boiled

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

every

wife

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sprouting coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sand

river

dirty

tie

noun forearm

wing

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

mud

sweat

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

n Kind of jellyfish

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

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

strong

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

waterfall

separated, be

noun star

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll