Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

trail

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elected chief

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

[derəwak] n the place on the canoe where ropes are tied

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

lice, body

cook

canoe connecting fibers

Speaker: Ichiro John

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

slow

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

toe

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become ill

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

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puffer fish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

n steel drum

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

n sweetheart

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

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

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

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

n papaya

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cloud

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hold

verb be pregnant

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

yawn

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

spear

noun canned milk (store bought)

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

forest

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

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

boiled

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden, be

noun dream

Speaker: Danio Poll

set on fire

verb prepare

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sprouting coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

young woman

youngest sister

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

sand

dirty

freed, be

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun forearm

wing

virgin

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun full moon

young

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

turtle

noun dog bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll