Mokilese English

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

pron. ours

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

how much

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

sea snake

pronoun he, she, it

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun east

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse, head

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n love

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

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

ship

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

[jɔrɔkli] n on the side of a sailing canoe to hold the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

ill, become

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

try

chicken

Speaker: Danio Poll

send

verb dry

[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

noun fingernail

noun body fat, grease

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

[liː o nikit͡ʃan pumpo wɔlo] sentence the woman took the fish from the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun ocean area outside and approximate to the barrier reef

back

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[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

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

scared

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

honey

this

eldest brother

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb to kiss

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

frighten

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

old

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

left

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull in

verb dream of (something)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bear

Speaker: Thakar Peter

arm

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[pʷakəlap] n where the main mast is placed, in the middle of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

every day

adj. thin

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

hear

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

seven

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

eighty

west

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

one man

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

n banana

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