Mokilese English

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

drum

then

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

pay

noun leg

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

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

where

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

n scaleless fish

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

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o doːda in sugo] sentence the boy climbed up the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃimʷen re:l] n the rail on top of the canoe and near the front end; above the kapwidpwid; prevents water from entering the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

sun

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

pronoun you (two)

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

see

[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

vi to alow a tentacle to be bitten off in order to escape the sea eel (of an octopus)

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

we know each other

[ki:l] n small wooden ridge underneath either side of a canoe, as well as underneath an outrigger, to protect the bottom

Speaker: Ichiro John

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elbow

noun broom

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

think

back

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

widow

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

scared

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I have a canoe

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun head

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

young man

noun intestines

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[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

boiled

son

pron. your

Speaker: Macy Edgar

v sexually experienced

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

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

free

tie

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

today

adj. thin

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. wide

verb fly

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

strong

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

farmer

separated, be

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

wet, become

sixty

feather

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John