Mokilese English

spit (v)

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

many people

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

where

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o mɔi nen amako] sentence the boy is sleeping in the hammock

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirty

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

[jɔː war ewar] sentence I don’t have a canoe

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

see

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

[keinin eɾe] n wooden poles the run perpendicular to the apid and kia, on the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

mouse

noun fingernail

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

undress

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

red ant

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, transitive break

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

n unidentified fish species

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

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

heart

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun breastmilk

old

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

leech

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

elderly

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

born, be

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

pron. your

Speaker: Macy Edgar

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puddle

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest sister

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃo kaula nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran into the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

recognize

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

will be

say

noun hut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishing pole

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

n batfish

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

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

day after tomorrow

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

n party (celebration)

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

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson