Mokilese English

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence why are you here

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

n scaleless fish

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

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

little finger

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

ship

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

cry

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

yesterday

pronoun you (two)

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

feed

find

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[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

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

thousand

noun fingernail

fall

red ant

rich

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

tusk

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun fist

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

tongue

[liː o nikit͡ʃan pumpo wɔlo] sentence the woman took the fish from the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

back

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

widow

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

waist

n bracelet

verb touching one’s nose to a child’s forehead

Speaker: Danio Poll

yawn

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

this

death

frighten

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

young man

hungry

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

old (person)

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liː o poɾi t͡ʃeto] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

n goatfish

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

broken

every

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest brother

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

water

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ground

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

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

why

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cave

noun knee

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to be broken or deflowered

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

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb begin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

strong

noun piece of wood on the side of a sailing canoe that holds the sail lines

Speaker: Danio Poll

twin

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

sixty

feather

one man

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wɔlo juːpa piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn