Mokilese English

his

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence why are you here

shoulder

[aɾai] theirs

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

n lump

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

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash hair

starve

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

pay

[eː mɔi juːmʷen] sentence yes, I am sick

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

twelve

paternal grandfather

verb press

pronoun he, she, it

Speaker: Danio Poll

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

little finger

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[jɔː war ewar] sentence I don’t have a canoe

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smoke

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

big

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun broom

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb hold

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mad

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

kiss

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

how

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

raw

worm

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sit down

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

there

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pipe

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sprouting coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

noun green coconut

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun bridge

Speaker: Danio Poll

defecate (shit)

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

mud

noun hut

Speaker: Danio Poll

burned

noun cave

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

brother in law

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun remain

noun blow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

vomit

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

village

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll