Mokilese English

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

trail

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

n a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

many people

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fan

seven hundred

ripe

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

in morning

n love

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

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

be quiet

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun year, age

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

n steel drum

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

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun smoke

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

num. fourth

Speaker: Danio Poll

[keinin eɾe] n wooden poles the run perpendicular to the apid and kia, on the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fence

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

put

skin

bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[liː o nikit͡ʃan pumpo wɔlo] sentence the woman took the fish from the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[liː o uli lamoi poɾin t͡ʃeto] sentence the woman went with me to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n unidentified fish species

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

sky

verb jump

Speaker: Danio Poll

n spear for fishing

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

thirsty, be

here

Speaker: Danio Poll

death

n death

frighten

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb want

sit down

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

old (person)

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

born, be

verb dream of (something)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fry

Speaker: Danio Poll

wild boar

river

verb escape

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

ground

friend

noun foot

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

n batfish

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

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

every day

adj. thin

waterfall

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

twin

vomit

eighty

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

west

[wɔlo juːpa piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

rain

Speaker: Danio Poll