Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

spit (v)

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb enter

Speaker: Macy Edgar

save

wash hair

pay

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dawn

in morning

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

little finger

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb remain

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

be quiet

[jɔː war ewar] sentence I don’t have a canoe

sick

never

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

third

[kapʷʉdpʷʉd] n a ridge sticking out from the sides of a canoe that protects the inside of it from high waves

Speaker: Ichiro John

second

verb exchange, to

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

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

black ant (large, stings)

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of wood on the tip of the kehu that holds all the lines attached to the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hip

n crab

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

death

eldest brother

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

sharpening tool

noun canned milk (store bought)

pain

smooth

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun nausea; start to get sea sick, but cannot vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

ripe coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

sit down

noun coconut tree

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

born, be

that

receive

n goatfish

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

verb dream of (something)

Speaker: Danio Poll

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

son-in-law

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

noun river

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

dirty

tie

[pɔŋ] n wooden platform on the top of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n batfish

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

young

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

n party (celebration)

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

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small piece of wood that is tied perpendicular to the kehu, about 1/3 from the bottom

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree

noun meat

stop

noun remain

blue

[wa:n pʷit͡ʃ] n two wooden poles that sit vertically on top of the outrigger and connect to the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll