Mokilese English

his

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

[aiʔ] noun mine

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

many people

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash hair

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

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

in morning

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

push

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puffer fish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

chicken

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (two)

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

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

we know each other

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

rich

[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 to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

how

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

sit down

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

silent

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː polobidi sugo ʃilɔː] sentence I cut the tree with the axe

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liː o poɾi t͡ʃeto] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

that

hidden, be

verb hide

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden

pron. your

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb dream of (something)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green coconut

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

ground

friend

will be

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

mud

burned

tribe

[pʷit͡ʃ] n a wooden pole that sits above and paralell to the outrigger, on top of the kia; keeps the outrigger flexible

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

n batfish

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

noun basket

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

today

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb play

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wa:n pʷit͡ʃ] n two wooden poles that sit vertically on top of the outrigger and connect to the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sentence I have 2 canoes

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

turtle

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs