Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

n lump

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

verb enter

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal grandfather

maternal grandmother

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

in morning

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

n love

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

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

trap (v)

return

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bluefin tuna

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

noun year, age

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[kapʷʉdpʷʉd] n a ridge sticking out from the sides of a canoe that protects the inside of it from high waves

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

skin

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

big

rich

[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 hold

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (tell untruth)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

sniff

waist

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[mɔn] your

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

raw

worm

leech

noun money

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sit down

old (person)

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

have

noun ocean

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

silent

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will not go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liː o poɾi t͡ʃeto] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb hide

Speaker: Danio Poll

v sexually experienced

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

noun coconut in its last stage of development (meat is hard, husk is brown, coconut fallen from tree)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

thigh

will be

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

heat (v)

hole

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knee

day before yesterday

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

brother

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun star

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

understand

turtle

village

[wɔlo me kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man gave the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[wɔlo piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll