Mokilese English

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

spit (v)

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

drum

save

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

wash self

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fan

rainbow

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

louse, head

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sun

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb exchange, to

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

[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

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

vi to alow a tentacle to be bitten off in order to escape the sea eel (of an octopus)

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

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

bow

salivate

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

tongue

kiss

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

here

Speaker: Danio Poll

this

death

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

how

noun nausea; start to get sea sick, but cannot vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun monkey

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

ripe coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut in its last stage of development (meat is hard, husk is brown, coconut fallen from tree)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

every

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun clown triggerfish

Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

heat (v)

burned

n Kind of jellyfish

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

young

every day

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to be broken or deflowered

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

noun maternal uncle

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

story

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

n fashion earrings

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

tree

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

star

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fruit

west

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson