Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

elder

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

which

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

[eː mɔi juːmʷen] sentence yes, I am sick

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

num. ten

Speaker: Macy Edgar

paternal grandmother

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun east

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

bleed

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sharpen

trap (v)

little finger

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun year, age

n playing card

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

n steel drum

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

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

noun fingernail

black ant (large, stings)

red ant

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

back

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb smell

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

n crab

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

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

malaria

true

heart

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

male

noun intestines

when

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃu] sentence I don’t see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː na kiɔn pit͡ʃu wɔlu] sentence I gave the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun coconut tree

[nitin pɔŋ] n the section of the canoe on the other side of the outrigger; includes the poang, koasoau jaldu, pahj, etc.

Speaker: Ichiro John

clean

born, be

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

hidden

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, transitive burn

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest brother

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

water

tie

hand

recognize

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

friend

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

burned

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun basket

Speaker: Thakar Peter

shell

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull open

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

copulate (have sex with)

noun gecko

separated, be

vomit

blue

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson