Mokilese English

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

spit (v)

shoulder

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

twelve

noun mangrove crab

Example: Mangrove Boardwalk, Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, South Queensland, AUSTRALIA by Bernard Dupont, 2000, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

other person

seventy

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

flea

sad

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

blood

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

vi to be born

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

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpen

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o kupolai t͡ʃaŋ in sugo] sentence the boy fell down from the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

no

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

shaman

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

third

feed

twist open

throw

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi to put a spell on a tree to prevent others from gathering the fruit, usually also involves a physical, be cursed

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

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

put

noun mosquito larva

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fingernail

undress

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

rich

salivate

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pregnant

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

widow

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb jump

Speaker: Danio Poll

n crab

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

malaria

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

here

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

[men] classifier for people

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

drunk, get

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull in

v sexually experienced

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

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

float

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[piʃ men o] that pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

thigh

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smell

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

sweat

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun small piece of wood that is tied perpendicular to the kehu, about 1/3 from the bottom

Speaker: Danio Poll

n fashion earrings

house

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

lift open

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson