Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n lump

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

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

yes

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

ripe

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dawn

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

n scaleless fish

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

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

return

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

weak

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o mɔi nen amako] sentence the boy is sleeping in the hammock

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirty

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun smoke

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

thousand

[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

bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

comb (v)

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

rich

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirsty, be

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

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun breastmilk

noun monkey

young man

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

old (person)

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo wɔlo] sentence I will give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

left

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

hide

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

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

four

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun nest

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

hat

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bear

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb escape

hand

recognize

noun excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smell

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

sister-in-law

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

star

noun star

Speaker: Danio Poll

house

verb play

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb do

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll