Mokilese English

trail

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n parrotfish

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

wash hair

wash someone

starve

num. ten

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

other person

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

one

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n rope that is tied to the canoe to hold the sail in place; there is one joahmwur on either side of the sail (front and back)

Speaker: Danio Poll

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

feed

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

skin

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

bow

[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

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb talk

think

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

red ant

wash clothes

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

death

[men] classifier for people

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

frighten

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

pain

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

ripe coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ] sentence I am not going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

snore

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

clean

born, be

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

every

verb prepare

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb escape

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

wing

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun hut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

n hair swirl, said to be mark of a naughty child

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

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal uncle

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun maternal uncle

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree

noun star

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb play

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence I have 2 canoes

sixty

[wɔlo me kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man gave the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn