Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun elected chief

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

drum

noun leg

[eː mɔi juːmʷen] sentence yes, I am sick

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

dry

how much

rainbow

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

n scaleless fish

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

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

return

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o doːda in sugo] sentence the boy climbed up the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

ship

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

n steel drum

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

num. fourth

Speaker: Danio Poll

see

buttocks

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

new

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

noun mosquito larva

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cloud

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean area very far from reef

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

malaria

here

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun breastmilk

young man

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

ocean

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hide

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dream of (something)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pa:t͡ʃ] n a sitting place on the edge of the canoe, on top of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

son-in-law

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

arm

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

why

tribe

sticky

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun full moon

n tip of penis (slang)

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

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

today

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

twenty

brother in law

pull open

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

twin

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun fruit

lift open

noun dog bark

Speaker: Danio Poll