Mokilese English

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

spit (v)

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

[aɾai] theirs

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

which

drum

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. ten

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

other

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fan

one

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun finger

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

second

thousand

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

big

salivate

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[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 hip

red ant

n bracelet

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

blind

malaria

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

heart

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

noun canned milk (store bought)

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

old (person)

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my 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

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

born, be

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

pron. your

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

young woman

youngest brother

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urinate (piss)

dirty

why

noun cave

sweat

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

day after tomorrow

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

tear

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

star

seven

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

eighty

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

lift open

one man

Speaker: Danio Poll

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John