Mokilese English

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

shoulder

noun people of Marshall Islands

Speaker: Ichiro John

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb jerk

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

ripe

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

who

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

blood

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

slow

noun knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

little finger

weak

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirty

bowstring

cry

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

chicken

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smoke

num. fourth

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have fever, feeling hot

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

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

we know each other

they know each other

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mouse

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elbow

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

word

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb talk

think

very old woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. beautiful

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

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

n crab

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

pain

worm

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry, be

ripe coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo pɔː] sentence I will not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liː o poɾi t͡ʃeto] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

snore

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

four

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

tie

hand

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

burned

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun day

day after tomorrow

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

n party (celebration)

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

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. powerful

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

separated, be

noun star

Speaker: Danio Poll

house

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

sentence I have 2 canoes

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

lift open

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

one man

Speaker: Danio Poll