Mokilese English

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

which

n surgeon fish

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

ninety

wash hair

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sharp

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

thumb

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n skipjack (fish)

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

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o mɔi nen amako] sentence the boy is sleeping in the hammock

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

push

bowstring

verb to be poor

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

sun

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun year, age

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

hello

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fist

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

sky

n bracelet

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

n death

true

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

tooth

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

sell

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

that

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

receive

pull in

n goatfish

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

v sexually experienced

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

set on fire

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

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest brother

[pit͡ʃo ʃen nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran out from the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

water

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

tribe

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun cave

v To have one’s first sexual experience (slang)

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

noun full moon

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

brother

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

hear

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

raise

stop

house

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb play

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fruit

west

verb do

Speaker: Danio Poll

village

feather

[wɔlo juːpa piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll