Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

elder

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n lump

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

adj lumpy

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

noun duck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n parrotfish

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

ninety

wash hair

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

other

maternal grandmother

noun east

seventy

seven hundred

sad

noun dawn

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

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

toe

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

weak

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[jɔː war ewar] sentence I don’t have a canoe

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun year, age

n steel drum

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

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb exchange, to

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

[keinin eɾe] n wooden poles the run perpendicular to the apid and kia, on the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

[ki:l] n small wooden ridge underneath either side of a canoe, as well as underneath an outrigger, to protect the bottom

Speaker: Ichiro John

rat

noun body fat, grease

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elbow

[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 sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. very poor

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

think

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pregnant

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb smell

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sky

noun hip

waist

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun breastmilk

how

old

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

have

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

tooth

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

boiled

hidden

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

dirty

hand

wing

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smell

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

n batfish

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

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to be broken or deflowered

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

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sentence I have 2 canoes

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn