Mokilese English

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

shoulder

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun elected chief

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

wash hair

pay

nineteen

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

twelve

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mangrove crab

Example: Mangrove Boardwalk, Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, South Queensland, AUSTRALIA by Bernard Dupont, 2000, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

maternal grandmother

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fan

noun high

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

noun dawn

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

toe

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

salt

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o mɔi nen amako] sentence the boy is sleeping in the hammock

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

watch (v)

find

second

rat

n spine foot (fish)

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

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

bow

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fist

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[liː o nikit͡ʃan pumpo wɔlo] sentence the woman took the fish from the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

num. five

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

widow

noun piece of wood on the tip of the kehu that holds all the lines attached to the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb jump

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I have a canoe

verb to kiss

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpening tool

noun breastmilk

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

male

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun monkey

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

that

receive

verb, transitive burn

noun coconut crab

Example: Crancs dels cocoters a Bora-Bora. by Brocken Inaglory, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0 via ca.wikipedia.org

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

defecate (shit)

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun ground

Speaker: Danio Poll

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

will be

thief

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

n tip of penis (slang)

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

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

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

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

stop

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

wet

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John