Mokilese English

noun egg

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence why are you here

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun people of Mwoakilloa

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

pay

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

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

one

Speaker: Macy Edgar

seventy

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice, body

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

canoe connecting fibers

Speaker: Ichiro John

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

weak

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

twist open

vi to alow a tentacle to be bitten off in order to escape the sea eel (of an octopus)

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

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouse

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun body fat, grease

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heel

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hold

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

red ant

noun ocean area very far from reef

honey

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I have a canoe

frighten

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

hungry

verb want

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

take

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

four

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

float

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bridge

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

recognize

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

hot

heat (v)

noun smell

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

n Kind of jellyfish

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

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

adj. thin

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun ear

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

raise

stop

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar