Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash someone

twelve

maternal grandmother

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

sea snake

verb press

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharp

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

canoe connecting fibers

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

three

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n rope that is tied to the canoe to hold the sail in place; there is one joahmwur on either side of the sail (front and back)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puffer fish

Example: Yellow form by Onderwijsgek, 2012, CC-BY-S 3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

see

twist open

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

we know each other

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mouse

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

roof

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun broom

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive break

pronoun you (singular)

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

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb talk

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

kiss

red ant

honey

death

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pennant bannerfish

Example: Pennant Bannerfish (Heniochus chrysostomus) by Cliff, 2008, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr

Speaker: Danio Poll

ocean

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

drunk, get

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

hide

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[piʃ men o] that pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hand

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

virgin

[pʷakəlap] n where the main mast is placed, in the middle of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

mud

heat (v)

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. wide

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

house

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

twin

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

understand

one man

Speaker: Danio Poll

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs