Mokilese English

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

trail

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

num. ten

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

paternal grandmother

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

flea

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dawn

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bleed

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

thank you

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

tired

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

n stairs

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n unidentified fish species

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

sky

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

n traditional circlet used as a sign of welcome; generally made of flowers and/or palm leaves

sentence I have a canoe

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

frighten

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

young man

hungry, be

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

boiled

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

receive

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

wife

hat

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bear

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sand

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

night

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

n tip of penis (slang)

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

day after tomorrow

v to be broken or deflowered

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

twenty

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. powerful

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun leaf

singer

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John