Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

pay

noun maternal grandfather

one

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

sad

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

salt

sneeze

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

be quiet

bowstring

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sweetheart

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

noun smoke

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

throw

they know each other

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

fall

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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 make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pregnant

sniff

wash clothes

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

n crab

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

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

eldest sister

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry

adj. brown

Speaker: Thakar Peter

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

have

[ŋɔː piɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun puddle

four

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest sister

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun river

Speaker: Danio Poll

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

tie

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

thief

tribe

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

young

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

sister

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun maternal uncle

sister-in-law

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

hear

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

star

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun blow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

feather