Mokilese English

trail

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb jerk

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash self

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

adjective dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

dry

ripe

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

weak

n Idiot or fool (jack-ass)

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

verb remain

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

gonorrhea

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o doːda in sugo] sentence the boy climbed up the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[t͡ʃimʷ] n the rail on top of the canoe; above the kapwidpwid; prevents water from entering the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

push

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n rope that is tied to the canoe to hold the sail in place; there is one joahmwur on either side of the sail (front and back)

Speaker: Danio Poll

feed

watch (v)

buttocks

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[kapʷʉdpʷʉd] n a ridge sticking out from the sides of a canoe that protects the inside of it from high waves

Speaker: Ichiro John

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

thousand

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

roof

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun broom

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kɔsɔ t͡ʃeltu] n the wooden back of the pahj, on the outrigger side

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. pregnant

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

sit down

old (person)

noun pennant bannerfish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃɔpa iːla mɔ ai:o] sentence I did not go there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liː o poɾi t͡ʃeto] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

drunk, get

there

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden, be

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dream

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

young woman

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun river

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pɔŋ] n wooden platform on the top of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

friend

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishing pole

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

sister-in-law

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb begin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

copulate (have sex with)

story

noun leaf

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

west

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[wɔlo piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

n banana

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