Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

[armaʒ dapɔ pono pinit͡ʃi] sentence how many people are going on the ship

elder

save

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

twelve

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

n love

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

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpen

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

bowstring

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun year, age

third

noun eat

num. fourth

Speaker: Danio Poll

twist open

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

second

throw

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

put

noun mosquito larva

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elbow

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

rich

salivate

verb, transitive break

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

think

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

red ant

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

n spear for fishing

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

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

[men] classifier for people

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

smooth

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweet

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb want

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

there

take

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

every

verb be prepared

verb make by weaving

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

thigh

noun clown triggerfish

Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

virgin

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hot

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishing pole

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

sweat

young

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

feather

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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