Mokilese English

[apid] n three wooden poles on either side of and parallel to the two kia that make up the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun people of Marshall Islands

Speaker: Ichiro John

[armaʒ dapɔ pono pinit͡ʃi] sentence how many people are going on the ship

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

rainbow

seventy

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun dawn

canoe connecting fibers

Speaker: Ichiro John

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

n Idiot or fool (jack-ass)

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

verb remain

push

cry

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

new

vi to alow a tentacle to be bitten off in order to escape the sea eel (of an octopus)

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

we know each other

roof

n stairs

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heel

noun cloud

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of wood on the tip of the kehu that holds all the lines attached to the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb smell

sniff

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean area very far from reef

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

noun breastmilk

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pennant bannerfish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo pɔː] sentence I will not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

boiled

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

[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

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

young woman

youngest brother

youngest sister

noun river

Speaker: Danio Poll

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

river

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

will be

thief

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

night

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun full moon

noun basket

Speaker: Thakar Peter

young

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

n a piece of wood across the top edge of the canoe that holds the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

twenty

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

n party (celebration)

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

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

waterfall

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

raise

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

eighty

verb do

Speaker: Danio Poll

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson