Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

[amai] yours (plural)

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

which

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

push

no

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

[jɔrɔkli] n on the side of a sailing canoe to hold the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

sun

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

shaman

chicken

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

find

noun fence

Speaker: Danio Poll

n papaya

thousand

roof

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly

noun hip

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

scared

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to kiss

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpening tool

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun canned milk (store bought)

hungry

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

old (person)

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun pennant bannerfish

Example: Pennant Bannerfish (Heniochus chrysostomus) by Cliff, 2008, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr

Speaker: Danio Poll

ocean

born, be

there

take

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

broken

verb, transitive burn

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

youngest brother

noun green coconut

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

defecate (shit)

wing

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

will be

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

burned

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun cave

noun small hole (in wall, paper, etc.)

Speaker: Danio Poll

n tip of penis (slang)

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

young

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

fly (v)

verb begin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

story

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

n fashion earrings

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

raise

hut

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

blue

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb do

Speaker: Danio Poll

village

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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