Mokilese English

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun people of Mwoakilloa

Speaker: Ichiro John

elder

which

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

save

ninety

other

other person

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dawn

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

blood

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. low

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun finger

salt

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

push

sun

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

twist open

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kia] n the two wooden poles in the middle of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

put

noun mosquito larva

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

big

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun piece of wood on the tip of the kehu that holds all the lines attached to the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb smell

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sky

noun ocean area very far from reef

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

honey

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I have a canoe

noun breastmilk

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

old

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

v sexually experienced

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

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun bridge

Speaker: Danio Poll

freed, be

noun forearm

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

why

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

burned

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

shell

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thin

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

fly (v)

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun ear

Speaker: Macy Edgar

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

n fashion earrings

waterfall

tree

summer

star

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

eighty

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll