Mokilese English

noun egg

trail

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal grandmother

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb press

noun high

Speaker: Danio Poll

sad

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. low

Speaker: Danio Poll

toe

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

sneeze

child

ship

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

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

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

send

[keinin eɾe] n wooden poles the run perpendicular to the apid and kia, on the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fence

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

skin

n spine foot (fish)

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

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun body fat, grease

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

[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

verb, transitive break

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean area very far from reef

n spear for fishing

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

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

male

noun monkey

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweet

leech

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liː o poɾi t͡ʃeto] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut tree

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

son

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

every

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

float

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[pit͡ʃo kaula nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran into the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smell

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal uncle

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

sister-in-law

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

brother

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun gecko

noun remain

[wa:n pʷit͡ʃ] n two wooden poles that sit vertically on top of the outrigger and connect to the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

understand

lift open

[wɔlo me kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man gave the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hail