Mokilese English

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence why are you here

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash someone

nineteen

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharp

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

n scaleless fish

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

priest

return

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

ill, become

adj. possible

pronoun you (two)

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

find

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouse

undress

n spine foot (fish)

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

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

rich

pronoun you (singular)

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

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be pregnant

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

sniff

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n spear for fishing

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

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

malaria

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

[men] classifier for people

sharpening tool

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

ripe coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

silent

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː polobidi sugo ʃilɔː] sentence I cut the tree with the axe

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

born, be

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

there

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be prepared

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest sister

noun river

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun forearm

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

virgin

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smell

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

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

sweat

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

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

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

sister

sister-in-law

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

copulate (have sex with)

strong

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

summer

noun meat

twin

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fruit

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n banana

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