Mokilese English

shoulder

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb jerk

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

nineteen

maternal grandmother

verb press

cook

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

toe

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

weak

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

cry

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sweetheart

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

thank you

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

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

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun hell

Speaker: Monique Poll

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

mad

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

sky

waist

wash clothes

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

this

sentence I have a canoe

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

old

smooth

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pennant bannerfish

Example: Pennant Bannerfish (Heniochus chrysostomus) by Cliff, 2008, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will not go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

boiled

pull in

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

obey

youngest sister

free

dirty

freed, be

noun forearm

wing

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

ground

recognize

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷit͡ʃ] n a wooden pole that sits above and paralell to the outrigger, on top of the kia; keeps the outrigger flexible

Speaker: Ichiro John

sweat

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun day

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

brother in law

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

singer

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

hut

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

blue

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

west

village

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

rain

Speaker: Danio Poll