Mokilese English

noun egg

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[aɾai] theirs

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb jerk

then

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal grandmother

maternal grandmother

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

how much

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice, body

noun dawn

blood

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

n scaleless fish

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

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃimʷ] n the rail on top of the canoe; above the kapwidpwid; prevents water from entering the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

twist open

they know each other

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

black ant (large, stings)

tired

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sniff

scared

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

raw

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pennant bannerfish

Example: Pennant Bannerfish (Heniochus chrysostomus) by Cliff, 2008, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr

Speaker: Danio Poll

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

when

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

n goatfish

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

every

set on fire

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[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

son-in-law

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

armpit

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

youngest brother

youngest sister

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

water

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun hut

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun basket

Speaker: Thakar Peter

shell

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to be broken or deflowered

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

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

brother in law

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of wood on the side of a sailing canoe that holds the sail lines

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

eighty

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

wet, become

sixty

feather

one man

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs