Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

[aiʔ] noun mine

shoulder

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun duck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

then

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leg

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun maternal grandfather

dry

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun eel

Example: Snowflake moray, Echidna nebulosa in Kona, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, United States by Brocken Inaglory, 2008, CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

cook

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun dawn

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

n Idiot or fool (jack-ass)

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

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bluefin tuna

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

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

send

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[kapʷʉdpʷʉd] n a ridge sticking out from the sides of a canoe that protects the inside of it from high waves

Speaker: Ichiro John

second

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

rich

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hip

waist

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

n death

true

[men] classifier for people

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

how

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

old (person)

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

tooth

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[ŋɔː polobidi sugo ʃilɔː] sentence I cut the tree with the axe

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut tree

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

boiled

have children

hide

pull in

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut crab

Example: Crancs dels cocoters a Bora-Bora. by Brocken Inaglory, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0 via ca.wikipedia.org

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

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

coconut milk (handmade)

Speaker: Danio Poll

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃo ʃen nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran out from the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

arm

wing

friend

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

v To have one’s first sexual experience (slang)

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

n a piece of wood across the top edge of the canoe that holds the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

copulate (have sex with)

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

singer

separated, be

noun meat

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

west

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun dog bark

Speaker: Danio Poll