Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n lump

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

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n parrotfish

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

noun fan

where

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

cook

sad

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n skipjack (fish)

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

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

three

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[t͡ʃimʷ] n the rail on top of the canoe; above the kapwidpwid; prevents water from entering the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

watch (v)

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

thousand

skin

fall

bow

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

[liː o uli lamoi poɾin t͡ʃeto] sentence the woman went with me to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun ocean area outside and approximate to the barrier reef

sniff

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. happy

death

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

noun pennant bannerfish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

born, be

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb make by weaving

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

hammock

obey

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb escape

noun clown triggerfish

Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun full moon

v to be broken or deflowered

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

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

house

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wɔlo piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll