Mokilese English

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb catch

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

noun duck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

seventy

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

n scaleless fish

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

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpen

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

sun

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

never

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

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

thank you

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

see

find

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

red ant

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hold

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. very poor

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun a line held by a person in the back of the canoe that helps to control the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb smell

noun hip

verb touching one’s nose to a child’s forehead

Speaker: Danio Poll

spear

thirsty, be

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

noun breastmilk

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

traditional chief

when

[ŋɔː polobidi sugo ʃilɔː] sentence I cut the tree with the axe

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut tree

drunk, get

left

son

there

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dream of (something)

Speaker: Danio Poll

every

noun coconut crab

Example: Crancs dels cocoters a Bora-Bora. by Brocken Inaglory, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0 via ca.wikipedia.org

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green coconut

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

water

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

dirty

[pʷai] n a piece wood that holds down the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

heat (v)

shell

noun day

today

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thin

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ear

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n fashion earrings

noun blow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb play

hut

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

eighty

sentence I have 2 canoes

pull

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

make

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll