Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

[armaʒ dapɔ pono pinit͡ʃi] sentence how many people are going on the ship

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun mangrove crab

Example: Mangrove Boardwalk, Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, South Queensland, AUSTRALIA by Bernard Dupont, 2000, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

other

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice, body

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun dawn

in morning

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

canoe connecting fibers

Speaker: Ichiro John

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

weak

verb to be poor

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

try

n playing card

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

pronoun you (two)

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

watch (v)

new

throw

n papaya

noun bow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun broom

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (tell untruth)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n unidentified fish species

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

[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 fly

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

blind

malaria

raw

noun intestines

hungry

verb want

old (person)

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

ocean

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo wɔlo] sentence I will give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

snore

noun wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

hide

hidden

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[pa:t͡ʃ] n a sitting place on the edge of the canoe, on top of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

young woman

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun river

Speaker: Danio Poll

coconut milk (handmade)

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

free

wild boar

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun clown triggerfish

Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

tribe

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweat

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

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

day before yesterday

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

hear

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

tear

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

star

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

understand

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar