Mokilese English

[amai] yours (plural)

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

how much

seventy

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

in morning

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o kupolai t͡ʃaŋ in sugo] sentence the boy fell down from the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n bluefin tuna

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

no

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smoke

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

see

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb exchange, to

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

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

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

we know each other

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of wood on the tip of the kehu that holds all the lines attached to the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

sky

noun ocean area very far from reef

yawn

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

spear

honey

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun head

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly

noun ocean

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[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

left

sell

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden, be

v sexually experienced

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

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[pa:t͡ʃ] n a sitting place on the edge of the canoe, on top of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun pipe

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

Speaker: Macy Edgar

youngest brother

noun green coconut

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

water

hand

wing

recognize

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

hole

sweat

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun piece of wood on the side of a sailing canoe that holds the sail lines

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

eighty

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter