Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

[armaʒ dapɔ pono pinit͡ʃi] sentence how many people are going on the ship

which

verb enter

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

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

paternal grandmother

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

sneeze

thirty

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

sun

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sweetheart

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

adj. skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

twist open

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n papaya

put

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (singular)

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

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hold

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. very poor

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

very old woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pregnant

back

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

n crab

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

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirsty, be

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

how

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun intestines

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun north

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sprouting coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bear

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green coconut

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

river

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

will be

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

v To have one’s first sexual experience (slang)

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

noun full moon

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

day after tomorrow

adj. thin

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

strong

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

raise

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

understand

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

lift open

[wɔlo juːpa piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun dog bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter