Mokilese English

trail

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

save

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

other person

paternal grandfather

noun maternal grandfather

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

one

Speaker: Macy Edgar

where

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

n love

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

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

child

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

n sweetheart

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

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

third

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

[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

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

n papaya

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fist

adj. very poor

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

sky

waist

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

male

young man

leech

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

receive

every

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

young woman

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃo kaula nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran into the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urinate (piss)

noun bridge

Speaker: Danio Poll

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

freed, be

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun full moon

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

paternal uncle

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

brother

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. powerful

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

hail