Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

trail

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

shoulder

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun duck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun mangrove crab

Example: Mangrove Boardwalk, Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, South Queensland, AUSTRALIA by Bernard Dupont, 2000, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

other

noun maternal grandfather

mother-in-law

noun eel

Example: Snowflake moray, Echidna nebulosa in Kona, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, United States by Brocken Inaglory, 2008, CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

ripe

flea

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

child

n bluefin tuna

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

thirty

[t͡ʃimʷ] n the rail on top of the canoe; above the kapwidpwid; prevents water from entering the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

sun

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kia] n the two wooden poles in the middle of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun mosquito larva

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

rich

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

tongue

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

n unidentified fish species

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

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hip

waist

verb touching one’s nose to a child’s forehead

Speaker: Danio Poll

here

Speaker: Danio Poll

death

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

n death

sweet

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

ripe coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

sit down

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

when

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[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 crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

born, be

hidden

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun puddle

son-in-law

noun bear

Speaker: Thakar Peter

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

tie

mud

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun cave

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

today

sister

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull open

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

copulate (have sex with)

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of wood on the side of a sailing canoe that holds the sail lines

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fashion earrings

noun leaf

star

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

rain

Speaker: Danio Poll