Mokilese English

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

spit (v)

elder

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

nineteen

twelve

[ia omʷunu] sentence where is your mother

seventy

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. low

Speaker: Danio Poll

trap (v)

return

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

thirty

[t͡ʃimʷ] n the rail on top of the canoe; above the kapwidpwid; prevents water from entering the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun moon, month

try

shaman

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

see

find

second

skin

undress

n spine foot (fish)

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

fall

salivate

tusk

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be pregnant

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hip

wash clothes

honey

death

sentence I have a canoe

verb to kiss

Speaker: Danio Poll

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pennant bannerfish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

boiled

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

that

n goatfish

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

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 paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

float

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun forearm

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

heat (v)

sticky

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun full moon

n tip of penis (slang)

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

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

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

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ear

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

farmer

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun remain

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

understand

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll