Mokilese English

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[aiʔ] noun mine

verb nurse

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

elder

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

n surgeon fish

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

verb enter

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun duck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

then

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash hair

num. ten

Speaker: Macy Edgar

interro. how much

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpen

noun priest

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

gonorrhea

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb to be poor

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

thank you

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[kia] n the two wooden poles in the middle of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

vi to put a spell on a tree to prevent others from gathering the fruit, usually also involves a physical, be cursed

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

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

fall

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

big

noun broom

Speaker: Thakar Peter

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fist

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

mad

n crab

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

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

[men] classifier for people

[mɔn] your

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

traditional chief

noun pennant bannerfish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

silent

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun coconut tree

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun north

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, transitive burn

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun nest

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun bear

Speaker: Thakar Peter

young woman

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green coconut

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

friend

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

heat (v)

n Kind of jellyfish

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

pull open

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb begin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun piece of wood on the side of a sailing canoe that holds the sail lines

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small piece of wood that is tied perpendicular to the kehu, about 1/3 from the bottom

Speaker: Danio Poll

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree

eighty

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wɔlo me kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man gave the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter