Mokilese English

noun people of Mwoakilloa

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun elected chief

what

tiger

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

save

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

maternal grandmother

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ia omʷunu] sentence where is your mother

slow

kind

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puffer fish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi to put a spell on a tree to prevent others from gathering the fruit, usually also involves a physical, be cursed

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

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[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

skin

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

tired

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

n stairs

Speaker: Macy Edgar

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

rich

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. very poor

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun a line held by a person in the back of the canoe that helps to control the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

[liː o uli lamoi poɾin t͡ʃeto] sentence the woman went with me to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb be pregnant

num. fifty

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

n unidentified fish species

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

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

malaria

this

death

eldest sister

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb to kiss

Speaker: Danio Poll

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː t͡ʃɔpa iːla mɔ ai:o] sentence I did not go there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

left

noun north

have children

sell

set on fire

noun coconut crab

Example: Crancs dels cocoters a Bora-Bora. by Brocken Inaglory, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0 via ca.wikipedia.org

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

young woman

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urinate (piss)

water

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cave

shell

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

today

sister

twenty

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

tear

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

wet, become

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll