Mokilese English

[aiʔ] noun mine

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

spit (v)

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

elder

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eel

Example: Snowflake moray, Echidna nebulosa in Kona, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, United States by Brocken Inaglory, 2008, CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

seventy

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

in morning

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

canoe connecting fibers

Speaker: Ichiro John

sharpen

noun priest

return

salt

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bowstring

cry

sick

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

never

shaman

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

third

find

adj. skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

n papaya

put

undress

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

n spine foot (fish)

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

fall

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

rich

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ t͡ʃeltu] n the wooden back of the pahj, on the outrigger side

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

tusk

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun a line held by a person in the back of the canoe that helps to control the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

very old woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

widow

wash clothes

noun ocean area very far from reef

n crab

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

[mɔn] your

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun head

noun monkey

noun intestines

have

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

silent

[ŋɔː na kiɔn pit͡ʃu wɔlu] sentence I gave the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

there

receive

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hat

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sand

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ground

Speaker: Danio Poll

say

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

night

Speaker: Danio Poll

young

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal aunt

n a piece of wood across the top edge of the canoe that holds the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

twenty

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

tear

stop

noun blow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hut

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

sixty

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar