Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

[amai] yours (plural)

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elected chief

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

twelve

paternal grandfather

ripe

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

sharpen

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun priest

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun moon, month

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

hello

third

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

[keinin eɾe] n wooden poles the run perpendicular to the apid and kia, on the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

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

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heel

tusk

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

[liː o nikit͡ʃan pumpo wɔlo] sentence the woman took the fish from the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb lie (tell untruth)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sniff

n unidentified fish species

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

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

waist

sentence I have a canoe

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

young man

adj. brown

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

have

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull in

v sexually experienced

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

verb be prepared

noun coconut crab

Example: Crancs dels cocoters a Bora-Bora. by Brocken Inaglory, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0 via ca.wikipedia.org

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make by weaving

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sand

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

will be

sticky

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smell

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knee

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

twenty

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. powerful

story

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

stop

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

blue

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

turtle

make

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

rain

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll