Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

his

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

shoulder

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

elder

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb enter

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

ninety

pay

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

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

weak

sneeze

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun moon, month

verb dry

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

yesterday

noun smoke

find

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun mosquito larva

skin

noun a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

[liː o nikit͡ʃan pumpo wɔlo] sentence the woman took the fish from the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

kiss

noun ocean area very far from reef

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirsty, be

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest brother

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

leech

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃu] sentence I don’t see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː na kiɔn pit͡ʃu wɔlu] sentence I gave the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː polobidi sugo ʃilɔː] sentence I cut the tree with the axe

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

every

verb be prepared

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

coconut milk (handmade)

Speaker: Danio Poll

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

dirty

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

will be

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

burned

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweat

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

n Kind of jellyfish

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

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

sister

adj. thin

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

house

hut

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

make

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter