Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[armaʒ dapɔ pono pinit͡ʃi] sentence how many people are going on the ship

pron. ours

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

many people

then

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

where

interro. how much

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun he, she, it

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun dawn

n love

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

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

kind

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o doːda in sugo] sentence the boy climbed up the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

ship

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

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

n rope that is tied to the canoe to hold the sail in place; there is one joahmwur on either side of the sail (front and back)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

send

see

buttocks

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun fingernail

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

noun heel

noun elbow

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (singular)

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

noun fist

verb talk

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb smell

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

red ant

n bracelet

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

raw

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun money

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

old (person)

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃa] sentence I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

clean

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

v sexually experienced

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

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 spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

son-in-law

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

say

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

young

n hair swirl, said to be mark of a naughty child

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

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun day

v to be broken or deflowered

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

fly (v)

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

tear

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

make

village

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

rain

Speaker: Danio Poll

hail