Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

what

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun leg

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal grandmother

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

how much

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

n rope that is tied to the canoe to hold the sail in place; there is one joahmwur on either side of the sail (front and back)

Speaker: Danio Poll

bowstring

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

n sweetheart

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

pronoun you (two)

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

twist open

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

n spine foot (fish)

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

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

big

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun a line held by a person in the back of the canoe that helps to control the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb smell

[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

sky

scared

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirsty, be

female

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

smooth

raw

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

traditional chief

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[nitin pɔŋ] n the section of the canoe on the other side of the outrigger; includes the poang, koasoau jaldu, pahj, etc.

Speaker: Ichiro John

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

left

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

clean

hidden

receive

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

set on fire

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pond

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun forearm

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ground

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

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

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

tear

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

summer

noun meat

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

hut

vomit

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

sixty

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun isolated parts of the reef

Speaker: Danio Poll