Mokilese English

[aiʔ] noun mine

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun people of Mwoakilloa

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

which

[derəwak] n the place on the canoe where ropes are tied

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

starve

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eel

Example: Snowflake moray, Echidna nebulosa in Kona, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, United States by Brocken Inaglory, 2008, CC-BY-SA-3.0,
via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

in morning

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

push

no

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

ill, become

noun moon, month

shaman

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

rich

[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

tusk

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pregnant

verb be pregnant

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

[lɔ:n jɔ:mʷur] n where the line holding down the sail is tied; near the end of the canoe but before the repiakiak

Speaker: Ichiro John

n bracelet

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

this

[men] classifier for people

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry

verb want

sit down

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

have

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ] sentence I am not going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun north

have children

sell

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

take

noun dream

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb prepare

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

wild boar

water

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

dirty

freed, be

noun clown triggerfish

Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0,
via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷakəlap] n where the main mast is placed, in the middle of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

copulate (have sex with)

adj. powerful

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

seven

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wa:n pʷit͡ʃ] n two wooden poles that sit vertically on top of the outrigger and connect to the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

wet, become

wet