Mokilese English

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb enter

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leg

other person

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun east

cook

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n love

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

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

kind

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

push

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

be quiet

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

cry

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

n steel drum

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

hello

noun smoke

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

throw

vi to put a spell on a tree to prevent others from gathering the fruit, usually also involves a physical, be cursed

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

undress

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

salivate

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

think

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sky

blind

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

malaria

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

heart

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

young man

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

have

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

silent

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃa] sentence I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃupakiɔ pit͡ʃu oldo] sentence I did not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

that

pull in

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dream

Speaker: Danio Poll

wife

four

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fry

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

free

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

night

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

every day

v to be broken or deflowered

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

sister-in-law

first

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

separated, be

stop

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wa:n pʷit͡ʃ] n two wooden poles that sit vertically on top of the outrigger and connect to the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll