Mokilese English

sentence why are you here

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

spit (v)

noun elected chief

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

tiger

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

paternal grandmother

noun fan

verb press

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

noun finger

child

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

shaman

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

mouse

fall

roof

black ant (large, stings)

tusk

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

word

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

tongue

noun ocean area outside and approximate to the barrier reef

back

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

num. five

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mad

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[lɔ:n jɔ:mʷur] n where the line holding down the sail is tied; near the end of the canoe but before the repiakiak

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

waist

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I have a canoe

how

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun head

noun money

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

have

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

when

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sell

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

young woman

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

free

ground

recognize

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

hot

[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

hole

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knee

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal uncle

v to be broken or deflowered

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

noun maternal uncle

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

brother

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

fly (v)

first

story

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

seven

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

blue

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll