Mokilese English

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

what

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

then

save

wash hair

[eː mɔi juːmʷen] sentence yes, I am sick

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun fan

noun high

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven hundred

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice, body

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sad

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

never

shaman

noun year, age

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

watch (v)

find

new

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

they know each other

mouse

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

fall

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

roof

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fist

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

tongue

[liː o nikit͡ʃan pumpo wɔlo] sentence the woman took the fish from the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

widow

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

blind

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[mɔn] your

verb to kiss

Speaker: Danio Poll

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

old (person)

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

snore

[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

take

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urinate (piss)

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

dirty

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hut

Speaker: Danio Poll

burned

tribe

noun cave

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

young

today

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

adj. powerful

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

n fashion earrings

tear

seven

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

house

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

turtle

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter