Mokilese English

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

what

[derəwak] n the place on the canoe where ropes are tied

Speaker: Ichiro John

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. fourteen

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

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

one

Speaker: Macy Edgar

seven hundred

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

kind

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

sun

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

never

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

new

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

[kia] n the two wooden poles in the middle of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun mosquito larva

undress

red ant

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ t͡ʃeltu] n the wooden back of the pahj, on the outrigger side

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hold

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash clothes

yawn

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

here

Speaker: Danio Poll

this

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

male

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry, be

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

when

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden, be

verb be prepared

son-in-law

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[piʃ men o] that pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

tie

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

sticky

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smell

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knee

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thin

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb fly

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun ear

Speaker: Macy Edgar

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

waterfall

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

vomit

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

eighty

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

make

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

village

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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