Mokilese English

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

save

wash hair

wash someone

starve

[eː mɔi juːmʷen] sentence yes, I am sick

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

dry

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

rainbow

ripe

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

little finger

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

n skipjack (fish)

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

[t͡ʃimʷ] n the rail on top of the canoe; above the kapwidpwid; prevents water from entering the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

[t͡ʃimʷen re:l] n the rail on top of the canoe and near the front end; above the kapwidpwid; prevents water from entering the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

no

cry

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun year, age

send

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi to put a spell on a tree to prevent others from gathering the fruit, usually also involves a physical, be cursed

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

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

fall

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

red ant

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

word

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

red ant

verb touching one’s nose to a child’s forehead

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

heart

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

smooth

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

worm

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃa] sentence I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

left

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut in its last stage of development (meat is hard, husk is brown, coconut fallen from tree)

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make by weaving

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

tie

verb escape

hand

defecate (shit)

wing

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

thigh

friend

burned

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

shell

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to try to break or deflower

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

sister-in-law

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

strong

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fashion earrings

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

noun blow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll