Mokilese English

trail

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

[aɾai] theirs

noun people of Mwoakilloa

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun elected chief

tiger

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash hair

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

mother-in-law

one

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o mɔi nen amako] sentence the boy is sleeping in the hammock

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

thirty

bowstring

cry

try

shaman

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

chicken

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (two)

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

black ant (large, stings)

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hold

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pregnant

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hip

red ant

blind

malaria

here

Speaker: Danio Poll

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

male

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

pain

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb want

sit down

elderly

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

drunk, get

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

sell

hide

hidden

noun dream

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dream of (something)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

[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

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

young woman

coconut milk (handmade)

Speaker: Danio Poll

water

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun forearm

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

friend

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

night

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweat

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

n tip of penis (slang)

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

v to try to break or deflower

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

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

fly (v)

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

n party (celebration)

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

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small piece of wood that is tied perpendicular to the kehu, about 1/3 from the bottom

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

turtle

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter