Mokilese English

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

which

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

drum

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash hair

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

seventy

louse, head

who

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dawn

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

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

vi to force

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

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpen

little finger

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

salt

sneeze

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

bowstring

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

n steel drum

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

n sweetheart

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

see

new

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

they know each other

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

tongue

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

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 fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

death

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

leech

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

sit down

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

tooth

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sell

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb fry

Speaker: Danio Poll

obey

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

dirty

thigh

ground

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

why

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

every day

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

sister

brother in law

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

hear

n fashion earrings

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

one man

Speaker: Danio Poll

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson