Mokilese English

noun egg

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

spit (v)

what

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

starve

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fan

seven hundred

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

slow

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o doːda in sugo] sentence the boy climbed up the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[t͡ʃimʷ] n the rail on top of the canoe; above the kapwidpwid; prevents water from entering the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

n rope that is tied to the canoe to hold the sail in place; there is one joahmwur on either side of the sail (front and back)

Speaker: Danio Poll

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

never

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kapʷʉdpʷʉd] n a ridge sticking out from the sides of a canoe that protects the inside of it from high waves

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

comb (v)

tired

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive break

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

widow

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

male

adj. brown

Speaker: Thakar Peter

have

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pennant bannerfish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo wɔlo] sentence I will give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

left

have children

hidden, be

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

armpit

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

float

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

young woman

hand

wing

ground

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

friend

noun excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

hole

n batfish

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

noun knee

young

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

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

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to try to break or deflower

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

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of wood on the side of a sailing canoe that holds the sail lines

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

summer

raise

stop

eighty

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

feather

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll