Mokilese English

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

save

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

pay

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

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

noun high

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sad

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

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun finger

sneeze

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

shaman

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

yesterday

pronoun you (two)

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

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

new

verb exchange, to

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

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n stairs

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun heel

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

think

noun green lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sniff

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun canned milk (store bought)

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun nausea; start to get sea sick, but cannot vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean

tooth

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː t͡ʃɔpa iːla mɔ ai:o] sentence I did not go there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː polobidi sugo ʃilɔː] sentence I cut the tree with the axe

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

take

n goatfish

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

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun river

Speaker: Danio Poll

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

river

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bridge

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb escape

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

thigh

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun foot

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

every day

today

paternal aunt

sister

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

first

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hear

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of wood on the side of a sailing canoe that holds the sail lines

Speaker: Danio Poll

waterfall

singer

farmer

noun blow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[wɔlu t͡ʃuːpa kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man did not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun isolated parts of the reef

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter