Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

n surgeon fish

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

verb enter

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

other person

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

one

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice, body

louse, head

in morning

canoe connecting fibers

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

n scaleless fish

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

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun priest

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o kupolai t͡ʃaŋ in sugo] sentence the boy fell down from the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

push

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

ill, become

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

yesterday

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

thousand

rat

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

tired

noun heel

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. very poor

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

[liː o uli lamoi poɾin t͡ʃeto] sentence the woman went with me to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hip

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest sister

[mɔn] your

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweet

young man

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sit down

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

that

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden

noun dream

Speaker: Danio Poll

set on fire

youngest sister

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urinate (piss)

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun forearm

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

hole

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to be broken or deflowered

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

sister-in-law

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb fly

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

copulate (have sex with)

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n fashion earrings

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

stop

[wa:n pʷit͡ʃ] n two wooden poles that sit vertically on top of the outrigger and connect to the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

make

lift open

hail