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Ingkarakin
lice (human lice)
bookmarkjapan, kadek
not stingy
bookmarkjoah loakloakoa
be quiet
bookmarkjukren mau
[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish
bookmarkkapirda
twist open
bookmarkkiljoula
undress
bookmarkkioak
n spine foot (fish)
bookmarkkoadkoan umw
roof
bookmarkload
maj
warm
bookmarkmajmaj
verb, transitive popular with girls
bookmarkmaraula
thirsty, be
bookmarkmilik in nen dihn
noun canned milk (store bought)
bookmarkmwani
noun money
bookmarknambwo
onop
verb prepare
bookmarkpaiennoai jerpein
son-in-law
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poak
defecate (shit)
bookmarkPohn pwirej
ground
bookmarkpohneje
recognize
bookmarkpohp
noun clown triggerfish
Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
bookmarkpwada
why
bookmarkpwoarla
v To have one’s first sexual experience (slang)
bookmarkrajak pein
n bottom mast of a sail
bookmarkrehn ohroj
every day
bookmarkrehno mworin lakap
day after tomorrow
bookmarkrieijek
twenty
bookmarkumwoaihs
verb play
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Harrison, K. David; Anderson, Gregory D.S.; Poll, Danio; Lebehn, Jason; Panaligan, Monique; Esposito, Lewis; Babinski, Sarah. 2014-2015.
Mokilese-English Talking Dictionary.
Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages and Swarthmore College.
http://www.talkingdictionary.org/mokilese
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