Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

[amai] yours (plural)

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

many people

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun maternal grandfather

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

rainbow

louse, head

sharp

noun dawn

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpen

noun finger

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb to be poor

sun

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become sick

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

n steel drum

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

pronoun you (two)

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

new

thousand

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

fall

roof

noun elbow

noun broom

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

tusk

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun fist

tongue

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

widow

kiss

[lɔ:n jɔ:mʷur] n where the line holding down the sail is tied; near the end of the canoe but before the repiakiak

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun ocean area very far from reef

blind

honey

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

smooth

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

have

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb hide

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

wild boar

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

tie

thigh

virgin

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

tribe

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

day before yesterday

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

brother

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

hear

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

eighty

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

understand

wet, become

feather