Mokilese English

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elected chief

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun fan

sharp

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun dawn

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[jo:jo] n piece of wood under the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

thousand

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

n spine foot (fish)

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

noun body fat, grease

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

red ant

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun broom

Speaker: Thakar Peter

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb hold

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

ostentatious person

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

honey

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

young man

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

born, be

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

broken

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

son-in-law

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

tie

wing

[pɔŋ] n wooden platform on the top of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun clown triggerfish

Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

v To have one’s first sexual experience (slang)

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

hole

noun small hole (in wall, paper, etc.)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

shell

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun maternal uncle

adj. thin

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun piece of wood on the side of a sailing canoe that holds the sail lines

Speaker: Danio Poll

n fashion earrings

waterfall

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

stop

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

fruit

Speaker: Danio Poll

wet

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll