Mokilese English

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

n a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

pay

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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 grandfather

noun fan

[ia omʷunu] sentence where is your mother

noun east

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

cook

sad

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n love

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

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

toe

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bluefin tuna

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

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

try

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

third

thank you

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. fourth

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi to alow a tentacle to be bitten off in order to escape the sea eel (of an octopus)

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

n papaya

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

tired

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

salivate

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

very old woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

kiss

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest brother

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweet

noun intestines

hungry

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will not go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃupakiɔ pit͡ʃu oldo] sentence I did not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

left

born, be

sell

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

pron. your

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dream of (something)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urinate (piss)

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun clown triggerfish

Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

burned

sticky

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knee

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal aunt

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb begin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun gecko

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar