Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

what

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

then

ninety

starve

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal grandfather

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fan

verb press

noun east

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

kind

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o doːda in sugo] sentence the boy climbed up the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

ship

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

twist open

we know each other

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

comb (v)

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hell

Speaker: Monique Poll

noun elbow

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

widow

noun butterfly

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

sniff

kiss

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[mɔn] your

verb to kiss

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun breastmilk

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun head

worm

hungry

noun money

sit down

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun north

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

v sexually experienced

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

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

every

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

son-in-law

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

coconut milk (handmade)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

wild boar

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷai] n a piece wood that holds down the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

[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

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

day before yesterday

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

west

village

noun isolated parts of the reef

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll