Mokilese English

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb enter

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun leg

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb press

cook

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sad

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

sharpen

trap (v)

noun finger

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

n skipjack (fish)

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

sneeze

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

try

shaman

n steel drum

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

feed

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

second

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mosquito larva

mouse

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive break

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

word

noun a line held by a person in the back of the canoe that helps to control the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n bracelet

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

n crab

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

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

old

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun head

ripe coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut tree

sell

pull in

verb, transitive burn

four

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pɔŋ] n wooden platform on the top of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[pʷakəlap] n where the main mast is placed, in the middle of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

burned

noun excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cave

v To have one’s first sexual experience (slang)

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

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

copulate (have sex with)

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fruit

understand

sixty

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wɔlo me kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man gave the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

hail