Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

shoulder

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash someone

yes

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

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

try

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

yesterday

pronoun you (two)

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

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

undress

fall

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

n stairs

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun bow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ t͡ʃeltu] n the wooden back of the pahj, on the outrigger side

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, transitive break

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

word

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pregnant

verb be pregnant

n unidentified fish species

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

waist

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

honey

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sentence I have a canoe

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. brown

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sit down

elderly

old (person)

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

traditional chief

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

boiled

there

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

n tip of penis (slang)

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

noun knee

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

n hair swirl, said to be mark of a naughty child

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

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

twenty

brother in law

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull open

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. powerful

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

farmer

wet, become

verb do

Speaker: Danio Poll

make

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll