Mokilese English

[amai] yours (plural)

spit (v)

pron. ours

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb jerk

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

num. ten

Speaker: Macy Edgar

paternal grandfather

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

sharp

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

vi to force

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

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpen

trap (v)

little finger

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. possible

noun smoke

noun eat

adj. skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

new

[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

noun mosquito larva

undress

n spine foot (fish)

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

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

red ant

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heel

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fist

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. happy

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpening tool

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

pain

noun monkey

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun money

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sell

take

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

set on fire

verb be prepared

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pipe

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pit͡ʃo ʃen nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran out from the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

defecate (shit)

virgin

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

n batfish

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

noun knee

noun day

every day

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

brother in law

adj. thin

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

house

hut

vomit

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

wet, become

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll