Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

[aɾai] theirs

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

what

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun leg

[ia omʷunu] sentence where is your mother

interro. how much

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

ripe

cook

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

bleed

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

weak

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirty

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[jo:jo] n piece of wood under the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

find

[ki:l] n small wooden ridge underneath either side of a canoe, as well as underneath an outrigger, to protect the bottom

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

big

n stairs

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun heel

noun bow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. very poor

adv. tomorrow

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

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest sister

[mɔn] your

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly

old (person)

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

have

noun ocean

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut tree

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

have children

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull in

v sexually experienced

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

noun coconut in its last stage of development (meat is hard, husk is brown, coconut fallen from tree)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dream

Speaker: Danio Poll

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

wild boar

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

thigh

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun cave

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

n Kind of jellyfish

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

day before yesterday

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

brother

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

n party (celebration)

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

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

village

[wɔlu t͡ʃuːpa kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man did not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun isolated parts of the reef

Speaker: Danio Poll

hail