Mokilese English

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

spit (v)

[armaʒ dapɔ pono pinit͡ʃi] sentence how many people are going on the ship

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

wash someone

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

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

vi to force

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

n scaleless fish

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

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

little finger

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

n Idiot or fool (jack-ass)

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

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

ship

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

try

n sweetheart

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

noun eat

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

second

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouse

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

fall

roof

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hell

Speaker: Monique Poll

noun bow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun cloud

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

tongue

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

very old woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pregnant

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb smell

n bracelet

n crab

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

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

n spear for fishing

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

honey

adj. happy

here

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

[men] classifier for people

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun canned milk (store bought)

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun head

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

ripe coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

ocean

silent

noun coconut tree

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

that

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pull in

every

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

wife

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pipe

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest brother

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

arm

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

virgin

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun small hole (in wall, paper, etc.)

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

brother

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

vomit

[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

eighty

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs