Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ia omʷunu] sentence where is your mother

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharp

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb to be poor

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

third

watch (v)

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

second

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

tired

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun a line held by a person in the back of the canoe that helps to control the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun piece of wood on the tip of the kehu that holds all the lines attached to the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

n death

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun nausea; start to get sea sick, but cannot vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

green

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

when

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

boiled

have children

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

take

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest brother

[pɔŋ] n wooden platform on the top of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

virgin

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

burned

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

shell

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

sister

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

brother

pull open

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. wide

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

hear

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fashion earrings

farmer

separated, be

tree

seven

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

vomit

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

pull

fruit

Speaker: Danio Poll

wet, become

sixty

make

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

village

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[wɔlo juːpa piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun isolated parts of the reef

Speaker: Danio Poll