Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

[aiʔ] noun mine

trail

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun people of Mwoakilloa

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

n parrotfish

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

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

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

[ia omʷunu] sentence where is your mother

seventy

sharp

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

thumb

sharpen

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

trap (v)

toe

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

toe

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

return

salt

child

no

bowstring

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

[jo:jo] n piece of wood under the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

ill, become

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smoke

[keinin eɾe] n wooden poles the run perpendicular to the apid and kia, on the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

we know each other

bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

black ant (large, stings)

big

noun broom

Speaker: Thakar Peter

word

think

adj. pregnant

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

n death

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

sweet

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

tooth

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃa] sentence I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

every

verb, transitive burn

verb be prepared

armpit

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun pond

river

verb escape

friend

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun foot

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

n batfish

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

n tip of penis (slang)

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

day before yesterday

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

n party (celebration)

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

strong

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

fruit

Speaker: Danio Poll

turtle

make

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll