Mokilese English

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

which

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mangrove crab

Example: Mangrove Boardwalk, Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, South Queensland, AUSTRALIA by Bernard Dupont, 2000, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

mother-in-law

noun high

Speaker: Danio Poll

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

noun dawn

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

n scaleless fish

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

adj. low

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun priest

kind

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb remain

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

three

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun moon, month

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

send

adj. possible

see

adj. skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

new

[kapʷʉdpʷʉd] n a ridge sticking out from the sides of a canoe that protects the inside of it from high waves

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

malaria

adj. happy

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[mɔn] your

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun intestines

ripe coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

ocean

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liː o poɾi t͡ʃeto] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

have children

clean

that

there

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

armpit

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

urinate (piss)

verb escape

hand

wing

[pɔŋ] n wooden platform on the top of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

hot

night

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

n party (celebration)

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

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. powerful

story

noun small piece of wood that is tied perpendicular to the kehu, about 1/3 from the bottom

Speaker: Danio Poll

waterfall

noun gecko

star

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

twin

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll