Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[armaʒ dapɔ pono pinit͡ʃi] sentence how many people are going on the ship

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

save

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

paternal grandmother

pronoun he, she, it

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

cook

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

who

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

n love

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

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

return

weak

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirty

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

hello

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

watch (v)

find

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

n papaya

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

they know each other

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

bow

rich

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fist

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun a line held by a person in the back of the canoe that helps to control the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

widow

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I have a canoe

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

snore

sell

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

there

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

wife

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

armpit

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

free

noun forearm

hot

burned

noun excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun foot

noun knee

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

sister

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. wide

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small piece of wood that is tied perpendicular to the kehu, about 1/3 from the bottom

Speaker: Danio Poll

farmer

summer

raise

stop

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I have 2 canoes

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

lift open

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n banana

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