Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

pron. ours

seventy

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

n scaleless fish

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

trap (v)

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n bluefin tuna

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

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[jɔː war ewar] sentence I don’t have a canoe

cry

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

[keinin eɾe] n wooden poles the run perpendicular to the apid and kia, on the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

n papaya

vi to put a spell on a tree to prevent others from gathering the fruit, usually also involves a physical, be cursed

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

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

put

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun broom

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

verb be pregnant

verb lie (tell untruth)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb smell

sky

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

n traditional circlet used as a sign of welcome; generally made of flowers and/or palm leaves

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

frighten

male

female

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

left

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

take

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun pond

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

burned

noun smell

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

young

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

adj. thin

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. wide

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

fly (v)

first

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun remain

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

eighty

sentence I have 2 canoes

sixty

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter