Mokilese English

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

trail

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

starve

twelve

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

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun east

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

vi to force

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

adj. low

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

sneeze

shaman

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sweetheart

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

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

red ant

tired

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mad

widow

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun hip

waist

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean area very far from reef

yawn

n traditional circlet used as a sign of welcome; generally made of flowers and/or palm leaves

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I have a canoe

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun breastmilk

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

young man

noun money

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː t͡ʃupakiɔ pit͡ʃu oldo] sentence I did not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

son

clean

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dream

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut crab

Example: Crancs dels cocoters a Bora-Bora. by Brocken Inaglory, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0 via ca.wikipedia.org

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun pipe

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sprouting coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

float

Speaker: Danio Poll

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

water

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

recognize

friend

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

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

noun small hole (in wall, paper, etc.)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun day

day after tomorrow

today

v to try to break or deflower

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

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

tear

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

west

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll

n banana

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