Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

what

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb enter

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n parrotfish

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

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. ten

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

flea

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

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

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

little finger

child

n rope that is tied to the canoe to hold the sail in place; there is one joahmwur on either side of the sail (front and back)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

shaman

num. fourth

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

n papaya

we know each other

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

big

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun a line held by a person in the back of the canoe that helps to control the sail

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

yawn

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

smooth

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

worm

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb want

sit down

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will not go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

clean

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, transitive burn

set on fire

verb make by weaving

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

wife

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun foot

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun day

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. wide

fly (v)

first

strong

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun star

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

twin

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

wet, become

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wɔlu t͡ʃuːpa kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man did not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[wɔlo me kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man gave the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn