Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun egg

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

[amai] yours (plural)

[aɾai] theirs

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

tiger

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[derəwak] n the place on the canoe where ropes are tied

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

louse, head

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun finger

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

ill, become

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

find

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun body fat, grease

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fist

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

mad

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. happy

here

Speaker: Danio Poll

this

heart

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to kiss

Speaker: Danio Poll

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

noun breastmilk

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

raw

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sit down

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut tree

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

hide

pull in

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

virgin

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun full moon

n tip of penis (slang)

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

noun day

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

blue

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull

noun fruit

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

village

noun isolated parts of the reef

Speaker: Danio Poll

n banana

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