Mokilese English

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun duck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse, head

sharp

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

blood

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi to force

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

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpen

toe

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

thirty

be quiet

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n rope that is tied to the canoe to hold the sail in place; there is one joahmwur on either side of the sail (front and back)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun year, age

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smoke

num. fourth

Speaker: Danio Poll

twist open

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[keinin eɾe] n wooden poles the run perpendicular to the apid and kia, on the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

fall

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

very old woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pregnant

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

red ant

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

yawn

sentence I have a canoe

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

leech

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

have

ocean

when

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃupakiɔ pit͡ʃu oldo] sentence I did not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[nitin pɔŋ] n the section of the canoe on the other side of the outrigger; includes the poang, koasoau jaldu, pahj, etc.

Speaker: Ichiro John

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

boiled

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut crab

Example: Crancs dels cocoters a Bora-Bora. by Brocken Inaglory, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0 via ca.wikipedia.org

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sand

water

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

hand

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ground

Speaker: Danio Poll

say

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hot

[pʷit͡ʃ] n a wooden pole that sits above and paralell to the outrigger, on top of the kia; keeps the outrigger flexible

Speaker: Ichiro John

hole

n tip of penis (slang)

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

noun day

day after tomorrow

paternal uncle

sister-in-law

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. powerful

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn