Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

his

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

shoulder

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

many people

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

interro. how much

Speaker: Danio Poll

seventy

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

trap (v)

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

child

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun moon, month

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (two)

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

noun eat

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

new

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun fingernail

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

n spine foot (fish)

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

big

bow

tusk

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun fist

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

very old woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

male

verb want

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

old (person)

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pennant bannerfish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃa] sentence I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃupakiɔ pit͡ʃu oldo] sentence I did not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

clean

there

hidden, be

every

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb make by weaving

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[piʃ men o] that pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

free

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

wild boar

river

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[pʷit͡ʃ] n a wooden pole that sits above and paralell to the outrigger, on top of the kia; keeps the outrigger flexible

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fishing pole

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

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to try to break or deflower

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

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

twenty

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

n party (celebration)

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

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

separated, be

vomit

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dog bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll