Mokilese English

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

what

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

ninety

wash hair

noun leg

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

rainbow

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

cook

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun moon, month

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun year, age

send

third

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

they know each other

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to start

Speaker: Danio 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, transitive break

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be pregnant

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

mad

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

malaria

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n traditional circlet used as a sign of welcome; generally made of flowers and/or palm leaves

eldest brother

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

have

noun pennant bannerfish

Example: Pennant Bannerfish (Heniochus chrysostomus) by Cliff, 2008, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr

Speaker: Danio Poll

when

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ] sentence I am not going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃa] sentence I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo wɔlo] sentence I will give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

take

v sexually experienced

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

verb be prepared

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

four

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃo kaula nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran into the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

bat

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

v to be broken or deflowered

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

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

strong

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

star

noun star

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

understand

sixty

rain

Speaker: Danio Poll

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson