Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elected chief

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n lump

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

adj lumpy

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

noun duck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb jerk

ninety

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

adjective dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fan

sea snake

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb to be poor

cry

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

sun

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

watch (v)

twist open

throw

[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

[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

we know each other

[ki:l] n small wooden ridge underneath either side of a canoe, as well as underneath an outrigger, to protect the bottom

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun mosquito larva

skin

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pregnant

back

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

n traditional circlet used as a sign of welcome; generally made of flowers and/or palm leaves

this

eldest brother

sentence I have a canoe

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

female

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

leech

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː na kiɔn pit͡ʃu wɔlu] sentence I gave the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo wɔlo] sentence I will give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[nitin pɔŋ] n the section of the canoe on the other side of the outrigger; includes the poang, koasoau jaldu, pahj, etc.

Speaker: Ichiro John

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

left

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

born, be

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hidden, be

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dream

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

[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 nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest brother

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

free

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

dirty

noun bridge

Speaker: Danio Poll

hand

thigh

[pʷai] n a piece wood that holds down the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thin

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

waterfall

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun star

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

twin

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

village