Mokilese English

spit (v)

noun people of Mwoakilloa

Speaker: Ichiro John

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

which

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

yes

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eel

Example: Snowflake moray, Echidna nebulosa in Kona, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, United States by Brocken Inaglory, 2008, CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven hundred

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharp

cook

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n love

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

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

toe

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

push

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

ill, become

noun puffer fish

Example: Yellow form by Onderwijsgek, 2012, CC-BY-S 3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

try

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

chicken

Speaker: Danio Poll

n steel drum

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

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

yesterday

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eat

n papaya

[kia] n the two wooden poles in the middle of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

mouse

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

bow

rich

noun cloud

n unidentified fish species

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

[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

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hip

wash clothes

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

frighten

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

how

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry, be

hungry

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃu] sentence I don’t see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː na kiɔn pit͡ʃu wɔlu] sentence I gave the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun north

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hidden, be

verb hide

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

hammock

verb fry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bear

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

virgin

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun hut

Speaker: Danio Poll

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

today

paternal aunt

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

farmer

noun star

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun blow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

sentence I have 2 canoes

hail