Mokilese English

[amai] yours (plural)

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[aɾai] theirs

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

twelve

maternal grandmother

dry

pronoun he, she, it

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

cook

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

little finger

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[jɔː war ewar] sentence I don’t have a canoe

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

try

send

verb dry

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

feed

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

throw

we know each other

skin

big

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

think

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean area very far from reef

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

malaria

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

heart

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[men] classifier for people

noun breastmilk

noun head

young man

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun intestines

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

when

have children

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

take

noun puddle

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

float

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest brother

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

dirty

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

thigh

noun clown triggerfish

Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

virgin

will be

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷakəlap] n where the main mast is placed, in the middle of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

tribe

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

shell

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal uncle

brother in law

sister-in-law

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

story

noun gecko

tree

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

west

one man

Speaker: Danio Poll

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun dog bark

Speaker: Danio Poll