Mokilese English

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun people of Mwoakilloa

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

what

verb enter

Speaker: Macy Edgar

drum

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

nineteen

twelve

noun fan

where

pronoun he, she, it

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

blood

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

n scaleless fish

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

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

verb remain

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o kupolai t͡ʃaŋ in sugo] sentence the boy fell down from the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puffer fish

Example: Yellow form by Onderwijsgek, 2012, CC-BY-S 3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

third

watch (v)

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[keinin eɾe] n wooden poles the run perpendicular to the apid and kia, on the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

thousand

red ant

big

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

kiss

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

red ant

wash clothes

blind

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

thirsty, be

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

frighten

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun intestines

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː polobidi sugo ʃilɔː] sentence I cut the tree with the axe

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

left

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urinate (piss)

noun pond

freed, be

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

n hair swirl, said to be mark of a naughty child

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

noun day

day before yesterday

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

twenty

adj. thin

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ear

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

summer

verb play

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll