Mokilese English

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

[aɾai] theirs

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb jerk

noun leg

twelve

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

other

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

sharpen

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

toe

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

little finger

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o mɔi nen amako] sentence the boy is sleeping in the hammock

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirty

verb to be poor

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun puffer fish

Example: Yellow form by Onderwijsgek, 2012, CC-BY-S 3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun year, age

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

n playing card

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

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

twist open

[kapʷʉdpʷʉd] n a ridge sticking out from the sides of a canoe that protects the inside of it from high waves

Speaker: Ichiro John

second

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

they know each other

put

bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

black ant (large, stings)

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of wood on the tip of the kehu that holds all the lines attached to the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

yawn

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

young man

leech

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

tooth

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

boiled

sell

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

broken

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pipe

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[pit͡ʃo kaula nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran into the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

river

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb escape

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull open

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

fly (v)

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

summer

noun meat

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

west

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

wet

noun isolated parts of the reef

Speaker: Danio Poll

rain

Speaker: Danio Poll