Mokilese English

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

spit (v)

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

pron. ours

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n surgeon fish

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

adj lumpy

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

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash someone

pay

dry

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

lice, body

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

n love

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

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bluefin tuna

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

[t͡ʃimʷen re:l] n the rail on top of the canoe and near the front end; above the kapwidpwid; prevents water from entering the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

[jɔrɔkli] n on the side of a sailing canoe to hold the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

ill, become

watch (v)

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

we know each other

they know each other

noun mosquito larva

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

bow

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

tusk

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hold

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[liː o uli lamoi poɾin t͡ʃeto] sentence the woman went with me to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

widow

n unidentified fish species

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

noun fly

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

malaria

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

death

[men] classifier for people

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

how

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

ocean

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

left

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hide

Speaker: Danio Poll

hide

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

obey

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

dirty

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

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

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun day

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

brother

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

tear

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[wa:n pʷit͡ʃ] n two wooden poles that sit vertically on top of the outrigger and connect to the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

pull

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

village

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n banana

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