Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

which

n surgeon fish

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

verb jerk

n large lizard introduced by the Japanese to Mokil Atoll; may possibly be a Mangrove Monitor (Varanus indicus)

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun maternal grandfather

dry

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

cook

bleed

n love

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

n scaleless fish

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

slow

kind

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun moon, month

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

thank you

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

feed

num. fourth

Speaker: Danio Poll

see

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

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

fall

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

salivate

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hold

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. very poor

tongue

[liː o nikit͡ʃan pumpo wɔlo] sentence the woman took the fish from the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb be pregnant

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb jump

Speaker: Danio Poll

honey

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun head

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

silent

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃa] sentence I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː polobidi sugo ʃilɔː] sentence I cut the tree with the axe

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

son

broken

every

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

young woman

youngest sister

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun forearm

thigh

recognize

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun clown triggerfish

Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to be broken or deflowered

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

v to try to break or deflower

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

brother in law

sister-in-law

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

copulate (have sex with)

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

understand

turtle

sixty

make

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

n banana

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