Mokilese English

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

shoulder

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb jerk

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash someone

noun mangrove crab

Example: Mangrove Boardwalk, Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, South Queensland, AUSTRALIA by Bernard Dupont, 2000, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

noun high

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse, head

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

blood

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

vi to force

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

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

weak

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb remain

bowstring

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

ill, become

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

yesterday

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

second

[ke:rup] n a wooden ridge below the canoe that protects the bottom from coral and keeps the canoe steady in the water

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fence

Speaker: Danio Poll

[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

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

skin

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hell

Speaker: Monique Poll

noun cloud

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

blind

n traditional circlet used as a sign of welcome; generally made of flowers and/or palm leaves

true

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

pain

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo pɔː] sentence I will not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liː o poɾi t͡ʃeto] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

pull in

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

husband

four

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

armpit

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pɔŋ] n wooden platform on the top of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

virgin

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

say

[pʷakəlap] n where the main mast is placed, in the middle of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

thief

mud

noun foot

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

sister-in-law

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb begin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. powerful

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun gecko

noun star

Speaker: Danio Poll

house

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

sentence I have 2 canoes

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll