Mokilese English

[amai] yours (plural)

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

which

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj lumpy

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

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

n parrotfish

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

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi to force

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

toe

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

gonorrhea

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o kupolai t͡ʃaŋ in sugo] sentence the boy fell down from the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

ship

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

send

hello

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

undress

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

rich

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fly

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

n death

eldest brother

[men] classifier for people

frighten

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

raw

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

green

have

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

boiled

verb hide

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive burn

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sprouting coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

float

Speaker: Danio Poll

obey

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

mud

hot

tribe

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

n Kind of jellyfish

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

noun knee

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

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 (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

house

eighty

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter