Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

n parrotfish

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

starve

how much

pronoun he, she, it

Speaker: Danio Poll

cook

n love

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

thumb

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o kupolai t͡ʃaŋ in sugo] sentence the boy fell down from the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

be quiet

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

sun

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

n playing card

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

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

twist open

[ke:rup] n a wooden ridge below the canoe that protects the bottom from coral and keeps the canoe steady in the water

Speaker: Ichiro John

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

n papaya

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

salivate

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, transitive break

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb smell

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

death

n death

true

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

old

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun monkey

sit down

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ] sentence I am not going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

snore

[nitin pɔŋ] n the section of the canoe on the other side of the outrigger; includes the poang, koasoau jaldu, pahj, etc.

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun north

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

broken

verb, transitive burn

noun coconut crab

Example: Crancs dels cocoters a Bora-Bora. by Brocken Inaglory, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0 via ca.wikipedia.org

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

float

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hot

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

n batfish

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

day before yesterday

v to try to break or deflower

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

sister

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

story

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

waterfall

singer

noun remain

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

eighty

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

west

wet

one man

Speaker: Danio Poll