Mokilese English

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

[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

shoulder

elder

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

drum

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mangrove crab

Example: Mangrove Boardwalk, Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, South Queensland, AUSTRALIA by Bernard Dupont, 2000, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

other person

noun fan

rainbow

cook

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

vi to force

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

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

thumb

kind

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o kupolai t͡ʃaŋ in sugo] sentence the boy fell down from the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

bowstring

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

cry

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

n papaya

thousand

[ki:l] n small wooden ridge underneath either side of a canoe, as well as underneath an outrigger, to protect the bottom

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun mosquito larva

roof

n stairs

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

think

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

widow

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

worm

hungry, be

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

boiled

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb prepare

noun puddle

hammock

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

obey

young woman

coconut milk (handmade)

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

free

wild boar

urinate (piss)

sand

dirty

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

burned

sweat

shell

n hair swirl, said to be mark of a naughty child

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

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

strong

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun gecko

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

blue

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

understand

wet

[wɔlu t͡ʃuːpa kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man did not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn