Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[aɾai] theirs

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

tiger

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

ninety

wash self

starve

other

dry

seven hundred

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

sharp

who

in morning

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

toe

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

return

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

[jɔrɔkli] n on the side of a sailing canoe to hold the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

sun

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun year, age

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

yesterday

noun smoke

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun bow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cloud

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

sky

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb to kiss

Speaker: Danio Poll

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

son

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sell

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

wife

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

tie

noun forearm

thigh

why

noun cave

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

every day

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. powerful

noun small piece of wood that is tied perpendicular to the kehu, about 1/3 from the bottom

Speaker: Danio Poll

tear

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

noun blow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

eighty

noun fruit

make

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

village

lift open

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll