Mokilese English

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

spit (v)

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

[derəwak] n the place on the canoe where ropes are tied

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj lumpy

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

many people

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven hundred

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharp

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dawn

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

trap (v)

noun finger

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

sneeze

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bluefin tuna

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

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

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

ill, become

noun puffer fish

Example: Yellow form by Onderwijsgek, 2012, CC-BY-S 3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

n steel drum

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

yesterday

noun eat

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[ke:rup] n a wooden ridge below the canoe that protects the bottom from coral and keeps the canoe steady in the water

Speaker: Ichiro John

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n spine foot (fish)

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

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heel

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

back

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[lɔ:n jɔ:mʷur] n where the line holding down the sail is tied; near the end of the canoe but before the repiakiak

Speaker: Ichiro John

n bracelet

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

[mɔn] your

smooth

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

have

noun pennant bannerfish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

that

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hide

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pit͡ʃo ʃen nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran out from the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

dirty

verb escape

freed, be

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

thief

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb fly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

noun ear

Speaker: Macy Edgar

strong

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small piece of wood that is tied perpendicular to the kehu, about 1/3 from the bottom

Speaker: Danio Poll

singer

separated, be

summer

noun remain

noun blow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

house

verb play

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

wet, become

lift open

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn