Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb jerk

maternal grandmother

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharp

sad

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dawn

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi to be born

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

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb remain

cry

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

noun puffer fish

Example: Yellow form by Onderwijsgek, 2012, CC-BY-S 3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

hello

adj. possible

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

we know each other

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

red ant

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

bow

noun cloud

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

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

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

waist

death

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest sister

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

how

smooth

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

ocean

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

son

have children

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb prepare

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest brother

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

coconut milk (handmade)

Speaker: Danio Poll

free

sand

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

dirty

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[pʷakəlap] n where the main mast is placed, in the middle of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

hot

noun excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

hole

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of wood on the side of a sailing canoe that holds the sail lines

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small piece of wood that is tied perpendicular to the kehu, about 1/3 from the bottom

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun star

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb play

twin

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

fruit

Speaker: Danio Poll

turtle

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll