Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

[apid] n three wooden poles on either side of and parallel to the two kia that make up the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

n a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

slow

adj. low

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun priest

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb remain

gonorrhea

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

three

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[jɔː war ewar] sentence I don’t have a canoe

verb to be poor

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

never

noun puffer fish

Example: Yellow form by Onderwijsgek, 2012, CC-BY-S 3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

buttocks

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

twist open

throw

[ki:l] n small wooden ridge underneath either side of a canoe, as well as underneath an outrigger, to protect the bottom

Speaker: Ichiro John

bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n spine foot (fish)

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

comb (v)

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hell

Speaker: Monique Poll

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb hold

adj. very poor

very old woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

back

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

sniff

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

n spear for fishing

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

malaria

[mɔn] your

frighten

how

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pennant bannerfish

Example: Pennant Bannerfish (Heniochus chrysostomus) by Cliff, 2008, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean

[ŋɔː piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo wɔlo] sentence I will give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[nitin pɔŋ] n the section of the canoe on the other side of the outrigger; includes the poang, koasoau jaldu, pahj, etc.

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun north

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

born, be

sell

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

dirty

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun foot

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

paternal uncle

n a piece of wood across the top edge of the canoe that holds the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

brother in law

pull open

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

eighty

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

sixty

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun isolated parts of the reef

Speaker: Danio Poll