Mokilese English

[amai] yours (plural)

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

spit (v)

[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

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pay

where

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice, body

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

weak

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb to be poor

[jɔrɔkli] n on the side of a sailing canoe to hold the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

hello

noun smoke

watch (v)

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

skin

undress

n spine foot (fish)

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

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

black ant (large, stings)

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heel

[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 kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

word

noun green lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

yawn

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

honey

eldest brother

true

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

raw

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry

sit down

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

that

pull in

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, transitive burn

set on fire

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sprouting coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green coconut

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

[pʷai] n a piece wood that holds down the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

tribe

hole

sweat

noun full moon

noun day

every day

brother in law

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb begin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

waterfall

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

fruit

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs