Mokilese English

his

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n lump

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

verb enter

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

drum

other person

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb press

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

push

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to be poor

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb dry

noun smoke

new

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

bow

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

word

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun piece of wood on the tip of the kehu that holds all the lines attached to the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb smell

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash clothes

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to kiss

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun canned milk (store bought)

female

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

boiled

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

pron. your

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

coconut milk (handmade)

Speaker: Danio Poll

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb escape

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

will be

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

mud

noun hut

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

noun cave

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

n hair swirl, said to be mark of a naughty child

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

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

singer

tree

noun star

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

vomit

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fruit

sixty

feather

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar

hail