Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

what

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

ninety

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

nineteen

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

interro. how much

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb press

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

return

salt

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sun

ill, become

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun moon, month

noun year, age

pronoun you (two)

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

throw

verb exchange, to

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

[ke:rup] n a wooden ridge below the canoe that protects the bottom from coral and keeps the canoe steady in the water

Speaker: Ichiro John

rat

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

[liː o uli lamoi poɾin t͡ʃeto] sentence the woman went with me to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

heart

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

how

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

have

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

silent

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ] sentence I am not going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

sell

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

pull in

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

wife

[pa:t͡ʃ] n a sitting place on the edge of the canoe, on top of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

verb fry

Speaker: Danio Poll

armpit

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest sister

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃo kaula nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran into the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sticky

Speaker: Danio Poll

hole

n tip of penis (slang)

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

shell

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to try to break or deflower

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

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

tear

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

tree

noun remain

twin

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll