Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

[amai] yours (plural)

sentence why are you here

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

shoulder

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

n a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

other

paternal grandfather

noun maternal grandfather

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse, head

sharp

blood

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. low

Speaker: Danio Poll

toe

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n bluefin tuna

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

thirty

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

[jɔrɔkli] n on the side of a sailing canoe to hold the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun year, age

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun broom

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

tongue

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (tell untruth)

Speaker: Danio Poll

widow

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

yawn

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I have a canoe

sharpening tool

pain

old

smooth

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

sit down

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

that

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

hide

hidden

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

four

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pipe

hat

Speaker: Macy Edgar

obey

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

free

verb escape

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small hole (in wall, paper, etc.)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

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

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

brother

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

singer

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun blow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

rain

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll