Mokilese English

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun elected chief

what

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

save

ninety

wash hair

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

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

sea snake

verb press

seventy

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dawn

bleed

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

little finger

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

three

Speaker: Macy Edgar

be quiet

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

[jɔrɔkli] n on the side of a sailing canoe to hold the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

sun

[jo:jo] n piece of wood under the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

noun eat

n papaya

rat

big

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, transitive break

pronoun you (singular)

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

noun cough

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

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (tell untruth)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun ocean area very far from reef

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

n spear for fishing

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

malaria

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will not go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liː o poɾi t͡ʃeto] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden, be

hidden

pull in

v sexually experienced

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

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[piʃ men o] that pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

free

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

tie

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

ground

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun small hole (in wall, paper, etc.)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

day before yesterday

day after tomorrow

paternal aunt

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

adj. thin

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

separated, be

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull

turtle

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson