Mokilese English

sentence why are you here

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

[armaʒ dapɔ pono pinit͡ʃi] sentence how many people are going on the ship

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

tiger

[eː mɔi juːmʷen] sentence yes, I am sick

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun maternal grandfather

maternal grandmother

ripe

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

slow

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[jo:jo] n piece of wood under the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

shaman

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

third

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

twist open

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fence

Speaker: Danio Poll

put

undress

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heel

bow

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive break

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

tongue

noun a line held by a person in the back of the canoe that helps to control the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pregnant

noun ocean area outside and approximate to the barrier reef

noun green lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sky

verb jump

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

smooth

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

raw

young man

worm

ripe coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb want

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

boiled

left

verb hide

Speaker: Danio Poll

take

pron. your

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun puddle

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

armpit

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃo ʃen nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran out from the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

river

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

tribe

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal aunt

v to try to break or deflower

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

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

feather

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll