Mokilese English

trail

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

n lump

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

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

n parrotfish

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

ninety

[eː mɔi juːmʷen] sentence yes, I am sick

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

interro. how much

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

in morning

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

ill, become

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

send

yesterday

we know each other

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

rat

n spine foot (fish)

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

fall

noun hell

Speaker: Monique Poll

[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 sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun a line held by a person in the back of the canoe that helps to control the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

back

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

this

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest brother

true

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun money

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

snore

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

drunk, get

have children

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb prepare

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

young woman

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃo ʃen nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran out from the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hand

wing

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷit͡ʃ] n a wooden pole that sits above and paralell to the outrigger, on top of the kia; keeps the outrigger flexible

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun small hole (in wall, paper, etc.)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

shell

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

noun ear

Speaker: Macy Edgar

strong

noun fashion earrings

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

seven

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

pull

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

village

lift open

one man

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll