Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

his

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[amai] yours (plural)

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[aɾai] theirs

pron. ours

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

n surgeon fish

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

n lump

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

verb enter

Speaker: Macy Edgar

wash someone

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ia omʷunu] sentence where is your mother

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

ripe

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

cook

toe

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

weak

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

n bluefin tuna

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

[jɔː war ewar] sentence I don’t have a canoe

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

pronoun you (two)

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

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun mosquito larva

fall

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

comb (v)

n stairs

Speaker: Macy Edgar

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fist

mad

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

[lɔ:n jɔ:mʷur] n where the line holding down the sail is tied; near the end of the canoe but before the repiakiak

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun ocean area very far from reef

n crab

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

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

death

eldest sister

heart

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun breastmilk

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

young man

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

ripe coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly

when

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː t͡ʃɔpa iːla mɔ ai:o] sentence I did not go there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

there

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

v sexually experienced

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

verb dream of (something)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, transitive burn

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

water

dirty

friend

heat (v)

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cave

today

n a piece of wood across the top edge of the canoe that holds the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

summer

raise

verb play

make

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson