Mokilese English

noun egg

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[aɾai] theirs

noun people of Mwoakilloa

Speaker: Ichiro John

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

n lump

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

pay

paternal grandmother

maternal grandmother

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb press

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse, head

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

sun

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

hello

noun smoke

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ t͡ʃeltu] n the wooden back of the pahj, on the outrigger side

Speaker: Ichiro John

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. very poor

widow

noun green lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hip

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

n spear for fishing

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

honey

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

male

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

sit down

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will not go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

snore

noun coconut tree

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

that

take

v sexually experienced

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

verb make by weaving

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

sand

freed, be

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

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 eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

tribe

noun excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

sticky

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

today

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

brother in law

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb fly

Speaker: Danio Poll

n party (celebration)

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

noun ear

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun fashion earrings

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun remain

twin

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll