Mokilese English

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

pron. ours

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

save

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

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

rainbow

ripe

cook

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

push

verb to be poor

cry

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eat

twist open

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

put

tired

n stairs

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun cloud

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

word

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

kiss

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

red ant

n crab

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

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun breastmilk

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweet

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo wɔlo] sentence I will give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun north

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

broken

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

wife

[pa:t͡ʃ] n a sitting place on the edge of the canoe, on top of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest brother

noun river

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃo ʃen nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran out from the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

recognize

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

[pʷai] n a piece wood that holds down the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

thief

noun fishing pole

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

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

brother in law

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

strong

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

n fashion earrings

noun fashion earrings

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

waterfall

noun gecko

noun star

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll