Mokilese English

elder

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

tiger

many people

n parrotfish

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

wash hair

rainbow

verb press

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharp

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to be poor

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

send

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. fourth

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

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heel

noun bow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

rich

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive break

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

word

very old woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean area outside and approximate to the barrier reef

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[lɔ:n jɔ:mʷur] n where the line holding down the sail is tied; near the end of the canoe but before the repiakiak

Speaker: Ichiro John

sky

verb touching one’s nose to a child’s forehead

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirsty, be

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun canned milk (store bought)

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ] sentence I am not going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

clean

there

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

take

pull in

n goatfish

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

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 piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fry

Speaker: Danio Poll

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

water

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

arm

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

wing

thigh

ground

recognize

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

why

sticky

Speaker: Danio Poll

n batfish

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

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

today

paternal aunt

noun maternal uncle

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

copulate (have sex with)

adj. powerful

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun gecko

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

blue

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

pull

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll