Mokilese English

noun egg

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[aiʔ] noun mine

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

many people

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

ninety

wash someone

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice, body

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dawn

n love

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

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

return

weak

n Idiot or fool (jack-ass)

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

gonorrhea

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirty

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb to be poor

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun eat

watch (v)

buttocks

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kapʷʉdpʷʉd] n a ridge sticking out from the sides of a canoe that protects the inside of it from high waves

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb exchange, to

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

bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

[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

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

think

num. five hundred

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

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

yawn

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun money

ocean

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun north

broken

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun puddle

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

Speaker: Macy Edgar

armpit

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest sister

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

coconut milk (handmade)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[piʃ men o] that pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

free

water

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun foot

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal uncle

adj. thin

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

story

tear

noun gecko

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

west

turtle

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

lift open

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

n banana

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