Mokilese English

his

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[aiʔ] noun mine

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[apid] n three wooden poles on either side of and parallel to the two kia that make up the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

which

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n lump

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

noun duck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

paternal grandfather

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

where

sea snake

seventy

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun priest

verb remain

[jɔrɔkli] n on the side of a sailing canoe to hold the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puffer fish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

they know each other

put

noun mosquito larva

fall

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

roof

noun bow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

very old woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

kiss

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb touching one’s nose to a child’s forehead

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

worm

old (person)

have

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː polobidi sugo ʃilɔː] sentence I cut the tree with the axe

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

son

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sell

there

hidden, be

pron. your

Speaker: Macy Edgar

every

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 puddle

wife

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urinate (piss)

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun forearm

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

friend

thief

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

burned

tribe

n batfish

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

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

day before yesterday

today

v to be broken or deflowered

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

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

waterfall

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun blow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

eighty

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fruit

village

noun isolated parts of the reef

Speaker: Danio Poll