Mokilese English

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

what

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

noun maternal grandfather

noun east

sharp

sad

canoe connecting fibers

Speaker: Ichiro John

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

slow

adj. low

Speaker: Danio Poll

gonorrhea

no

[jo:jo] n piece of wood under the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

never

shaman

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

send

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun eat

watch (v)

find

second

bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

fall

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[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

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be pregnant

verb smell

waist

spear

death

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

frighten

male

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sit down

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː na kiɔn pit͡ʃu wɔlu] sentence I gave the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[nitin pɔŋ] n the section of the canoe on the other side of the outrigger; includes the poang, koasoau jaldu, pahj, etc.

Speaker: Ichiro John

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

drunk, get

boiled

noun north

have children

clean

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

tie

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

recognize

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

friend

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

say

[pʷai] n a piece wood that holds down the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

night

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knee

shell

sister

brother in law

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

adj. powerful

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fashion earrings

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun meat

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb play

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

understand

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John