Mokilese English

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n surgeon fish

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

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

n parrotfish

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

wash someone

starve

noun leg

noun eel

Example: Snowflake moray, Echidna nebulosa in Kona, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, United States by Brocken Inaglory, 2008, CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb press

flea

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

slow

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

trap (v)

toe

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

n Idiot or fool (jack-ass)

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

sneeze

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

push

verb to be poor

[jo:jo] n piece of wood under the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. possible

find

[ke:rup] n a wooden ridge below the canoe that protects the bottom from coral and keeps the canoe steady in the water

Speaker: Ichiro John

n papaya

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

skin

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

tired

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, transitive break

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. very poor

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly

verb jump

Speaker: Danio Poll

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

elderly

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

born, be

verb hide

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

v sexually experienced

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

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[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

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hand

virgin

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

every day

v to be broken or deflowered

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

adj. wide

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n party (celebration)

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

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

hear

adj. powerful

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

waterfall

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

west

turtle

verb do

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dog bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll