Mokilese English

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

what

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

tiger

n surgeon fish

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

adj lumpy

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

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash self

maternal grandmother

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven hundred

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

bleed

vi to force

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

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

n scaleless fish

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

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

thumb

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpen

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

thirty

three

Speaker: Macy Edgar

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

find

[kapʷʉdpʷʉd] n a ridge sticking out from the sides of a canoe that protects the inside of it from high waves

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ke:rup] n a wooden ridge below the canoe that protects the bottom from coral and keeps the canoe steady in the water

Speaker: Ichiro John

[kia] n the two wooden poles in the middle of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

thousand

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[ki:l] n small wooden ridge underneath either side of a canoe, as well as underneath an outrigger, to protect the bottom

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun mosquito larva

rat

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun fingernail

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb jump

Speaker: Danio Poll

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

this

[mɔn] your

noun head

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweet

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː piɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo wɔlo] sentence I will give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest sister

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb escape

noun forearm

ground

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

virgin

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

night

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knee

paternal aunt

adj. thin

adj. wide

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

separated, be

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

make

feather

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll