Mokilese English

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

which

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun duck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

where

rainbow

seven hundred

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

cook

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirty

no

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun moon, month

yesterday

adj. skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

second

verb exchange, to

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

they know each other

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

comb (v)

noun broom

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

[liː o nikit͡ʃan pumpo wɔlo] sentence the woman took the fish from the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

n crab

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

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

n death

true

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

smooth

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun intestines

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

have children

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

clean

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

born, be

pron. your

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun dream

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

float

Speaker: Danio Poll

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

urinate (piss)

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sand

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun smell

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

n batfish

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

day after tomorrow

today

v to try to break or deflower

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

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb play

hut

twin

vomit

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John