Mokilese English

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

n parrotfish

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

wash hair

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. fourteen

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 flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharp

sad

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi to force

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

sharpen

priest

n skipjack (fish)

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

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

push

n rope that is tied to the canoe to hold the sail in place; there is one joahmwur on either side of the sail (front and back)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

send

n steel drum

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

hello

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

think

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

very old woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

[liː o uli lamoi poɾin t͡ʃeto] sentence the woman went with me to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

num. five

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

waist

noun ocean area very far from reef

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

honey

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

here

Speaker: Danio Poll

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

old

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sweet

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː pulila liː o poɾi t͡ʃeto] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut tree

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden

noun coconut in its last stage of development (meat is hard, husk is brown, coconut fallen from tree)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

wife

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pipe

noun bear

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

wild boar

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun knee

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

brother

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

tear

tree

star

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb play

hut

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

sixty

wet

feather

[wɔlo piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll