Mokilese English

noun egg

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash hair

noun maternal grandfather

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fan

seventy

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sad

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n love

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

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

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

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun moon, month

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

shaman

noun year, age

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

n steel drum

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

n sweetheart

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

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

see

adj. skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

undress

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

roof

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heel

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

blind

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

male

old

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hungry

noun money

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

traditional chief

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

every

verb, transitive burn

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

arm

wing

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

virgin

tribe

noun excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

day after tomorrow

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

brother

pull open

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

tree

raise

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

turtle

verb do

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson