Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

trail

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

elder

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n lump

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

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

nineteen

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

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun high

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun east

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

vi to be born

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

n love

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

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun priest

toe

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

n skipjack (fish)

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

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o mɔi nen amako] sentence the boy is sleeping in the hammock

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb to be poor

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun moon, month

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

we know each other

bow

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bracelet

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirsty, be

death

eldest brother

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

frighten

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

pain

smooth

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb want

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

ocean

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

tooth

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

snore

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

that

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

wild boar

verb escape

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

mud

noun full moon

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun day

day after tomorrow

today

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

hut

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence I have 2 canoes

pull

sixty

[wɔlu t͡ʃuːpa kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man did not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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