Mokilese English

noun egg

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

n large lizard introduced by the Japanese to Mokil Atoll; may possibly be a Mangrove Monitor (Varanus indicus)

rainbow

noun east

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

thumb

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

little finger

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

yesterday

n papaya

[kia] n the two wooden poles in the middle of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

[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

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

noun heel

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive break

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[lɔ:n jɔ:mʷur] n where the line holding down the sail is tied; near the end of the canoe but before the repiakiak

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

sky

red ant

verb touching one’s nose to a child’s forehead

Speaker: Danio Poll

yawn

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb to kiss

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

young man

noun intestines

hungry, be

verb want

noun pennant bannerfish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

ocean

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

n goatfish

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

noun coconut in its last stage of development (meat is hard, husk is brown, coconut fallen from tree)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

husband

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

hammock

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pɔŋ] n wooden platform on the top of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun ground

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mud

hot

sticky

Speaker: Danio Poll

hole

noun basket

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun knee

paternal aunt

v to be broken or deflowered

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

n a piece of wood across the top edge of the canoe that holds the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. wide

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

strong

house

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

sixty

noun isolated parts of the reef

Speaker: Danio Poll

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

hail