Mokilese English

[aiʔ] noun mine

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

[amai] yours (plural)

sentence why are you here

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

n lump

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

starve

verb press

noun high

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

blood

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

n love

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

n scaleless fish

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

return

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puffer fish

Example: Yellow form by Onderwijsgek, 2012, CC-BY-S 3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

they know each other

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

tired

pronoun you (singular)

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

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

mad

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hip

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

heart

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[men] classifier for people

smooth

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

when

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

hide

v sexually experienced

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

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb make by weaving

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

young woman

noun green coconut

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

wild boar

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

river

freed, be

hand

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ground

Speaker: Danio Poll

recognize

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

why

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun basket

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

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

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thin

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

tear

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb play

twin

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fruit

west

wet

feather

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson