Mokilese English

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

drum

then

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash hair

other person

mother-in-law

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

seventy

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

flea

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

thumb

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

push

[jɔrɔkli] n on the side of a sailing canoe to hold the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

try

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

send

they know each other

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

comb (v)

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

tired

noun hell

Speaker: Monique Poll

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

red ant

n bracelet

n death

eldest brother

sentence I have a canoe

male

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

old

noun monkey

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. brown

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sit down

traditional chief

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː piɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liː o poɾi t͡ʃeto] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

have children

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

hide

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pa:t͡ʃ] n a sitting place on the edge of the canoe, on top of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

coconut milk (handmade)

Speaker: Danio Poll

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

river

why

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

hole

noun knee

shell

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

n party (celebration)

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

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

west

make

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter