Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

shoulder

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

drum

save

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

seven hundred

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dawn

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

no

never

noun puffer fish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

n playing card

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

third

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

throw

verb exchange, to

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

[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

vi to alow a tentacle to be bitten off in order to escape the sea eel (of an octopus)

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

they know each other

noun body fat, grease

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

tired

big

n stairs

Speaker: Macy Edgar

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ t͡ʃeltu] n the wooden back of the pahj, on the outrigger side

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun language

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 female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sky

yawn

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

this

eldest brother

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

young man

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

silent

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut tree

clean

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hat

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest sister

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb escape

freed, be

wing

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun full moon

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small piece of wood that is tied perpendicular to the kehu, about 1/3 from the bottom

Speaker: Danio Poll

n fashion earrings

noun gecko

star

noun blow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fruit

sixty

verb do

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wɔlo piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun dog bark

Speaker: Danio Poll