Mokilese English

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

yes

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

where

ripe

sharp

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

thumb

priest

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

thirty

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

big

noun hell

Speaker: Monique Poll

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

tusk

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

tongue

very old woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean area outside and approximate to the barrier reef

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

widow

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

honey

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

old

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

clean

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden, be

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

receive

pron. your

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb make by weaving

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun puddle

husband

wife

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

young woman

youngest brother

noun green coconut

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sand

freed, be

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

sister-in-law

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

blue

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

turtle

[wɔlo piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun dog bark

Speaker: Danio Poll