Mokilese English

[aiʔ] noun mine

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

spit (v)

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash self

wash hair

pay

noun dawn

in morning

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

sneeze

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃimʷen re:l] n the rail on top of the canoe and near the front end; above the kapwidpwid; prevents water from entering the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

push

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

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun year, age

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

watch (v)

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

[keinin eɾe] n wooden poles the run perpendicular to the apid and kia, on the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hell

Speaker: Monique Poll

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb smell

kiss

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

male

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

old (person)

have

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

when

[ŋɔː piɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

left

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut in its last stage of development (meat is hard, husk is brown, coconut fallen from tree)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

hand

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

mud

[pʷit͡ʃ] n a wooden pole that sits above and paralell to the outrigger, on top of the kia; keeps the outrigger flexible

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

night

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun basket

Speaker: Thakar Peter

young

shell

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

raise

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

hut

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

blue

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sentence I have 2 canoes

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

west

understand

sixty

wet

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll