Mokilese English

noun egg

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

[aɾai] theirs

pron. ours

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

many people

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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 press

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

canoe connecting fibers

Speaker: Ichiro John

vi to force

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

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

slow

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

[jo:jo] n piece of wood under the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

sick

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eat

find

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

they know each other

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

n spine foot (fish)

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

fall

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pregnant

num. five

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[men] classifier for people

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

raw

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

silent

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pull in

n goatfish

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

noun coconut crab

Example: Crancs dels cocoters a Bora-Bora. by Brocken Inaglory, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0 via ca.wikipedia.org

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

wild boar

water

freed, be

arm

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

virgin

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun small hole (in wall, paper, etc.)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knee

shell

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

brother

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fashion earrings

separated, be

noun remain

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

fruit

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dog bark

Speaker: Danio Poll