Mokilese English

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun elected chief

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

pay

noun leg

noun maternal grandfather

noun eel

Example: Snowflake moray, Echidna nebulosa in Kona, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, United States by Brocken Inaglory, 2008, CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb press

seven hundred

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

trap (v)

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

sun

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

try

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

they know each other

red ant

noun cloud

tusk

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb hold

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

word

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pregnant

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[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 honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

red ant

spear

honey

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

this

death

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

eldest brother

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[men] classifier for people

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

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

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden

receive

pull in

n goatfish

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

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

[pa:t͡ʃ] n a sitting place on the edge of the canoe, on top of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

armpit

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun green coconut

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun pond

dirty

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sticky

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun maternal uncle

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

first

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fashion earrings

separated, be

star

hut

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

fruit

Speaker: Danio Poll

west

feather

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll