Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

[apid] n three wooden poles on either side of and parallel to the two kia that make up the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[aɾai] theirs

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

then

nineteen

num. fifteen

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

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

where

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

chicken

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

watch (v)

find

adj. skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

throw

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

undress

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

comb (v)

black ant (large, stings)

salivate

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

word

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb smell

noun fly

red ant

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

n crab

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

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry, be

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pennant bannerfish

Example: Pennant Bannerfish (Heniochus chrysostomus) by Cliff, 2008, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will not go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃa] sentence I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

born, be

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive burn

verb be prepared

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

float

Speaker: Danio Poll

water

verb escape

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

day before yesterday

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

strong

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small piece of wood that is tied perpendicular to the kehu, about 1/3 from the bottom

Speaker: Danio Poll

tear

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

eighty

noun fruit

verb do

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wɔlo me kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man gave the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar