Mokilese English

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n surgeon fish

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

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

maternal grandmother

noun eel

Example: Snowflake moray, Echidna nebulosa in Kona, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, United States by Brocken Inaglory, 2008, CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sad

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

return

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb remain

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

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

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

third

noun smoke

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

watch (v)

see

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

new

verb exchange, to

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

we know each other

mouse

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

black ant (large, stings)

noun heel

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sniff

noun hip

verb touching one’s nose to a child’s forehead

Speaker: Danio Poll

yawn

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n traditional circlet used as a sign of welcome; generally made of flowers and/or palm leaves

n death

heart

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

sweet

hungry

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

traditional chief

noun ocean

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

son

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, transitive burn

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun river

Speaker: Danio Poll

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

defecate (shit)

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

friend

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

young

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fashion earrings

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun gecko

summer

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

raise

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dog bark

Speaker: Danio Poll