Mokilese English

noun egg

noun elected chief

noun duck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb jerk

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

mother-in-law

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

seventy

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

trap (v)

toe

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

return

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

n Idiot or fool (jack-ass)

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

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

thirty

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n rope that is tied to the canoe to hold the sail in place; there is one joahmwur on either side of the sail (front and back)

Speaker: Danio Poll

bowstring

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

never

watch (v)

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

pronoun you (singular)

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

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

[liː o uli lamoi poɾin t͡ʃeto] sentence the woman went with me to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

back

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

honey

[mɔn] your

verb to kiss

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ] sentence I am not going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

snore

drunk, get

boiled

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

that

pull in

noun coconut in its last stage of development (meat is hard, husk is brown, coconut fallen from tree)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dream

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be prepared

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

float

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

coconut milk (handmade)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pɔŋ] n wooden platform on the top of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun foot

n batfish

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

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

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

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun gecko

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

separated, be

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

make

village

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll