Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

trail

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

elder

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

yes

paternal grandmother

[ia omʷunu] sentence where is your mother

noun eel

Example: Snowflake moray, Echidna nebulosa in Kona, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, United States by Brocken Inaglory, 2008, CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

seventy

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

cook

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

toe

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

kind

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n skipjack (fish)

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

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

cry

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

shaman

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

chicken

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pronoun you (two)

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

see

find

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest sister

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to kiss

Speaker: Danio Poll

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

male

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

hungry, be

elderly

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

receive

every

verb prepare

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

wife

noun nest

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bear

Speaker: Thakar Peter

youngest sister

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃo ʃen nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran out from the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

free

wild boar

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

tie

hand

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

hot

heat (v)

[pʷit͡ʃ] n a wooden pole that sits above and paralell to the outrigger, on top of the kia; keeps the outrigger flexible

Speaker: Ichiro John

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun basket

Speaker: Thakar Peter

today

twenty

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

fly (v)

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

strong

noun fashion earrings

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

singer

vomit

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wa:n pʷit͡ʃ] n two wooden poles that sit vertically on top of the outrigger and connect to the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

fruit

Speaker: Danio Poll

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll