Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun egg

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash someone

other

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

one

Speaker: Macy Edgar

pronoun he, she, it

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

blood

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

n love

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

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

toe

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

kind

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

gonorrhea

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

sneeze

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

thirty

sun

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

never

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smoke

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun eat

second

thousand

mouse

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

bow

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[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

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

think

very old woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (tell untruth)

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

widow

sniff

death

sentence I have a canoe

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweet

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

traditional chief

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

when

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

boiled

have children

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dream of (something)

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

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bear

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green coconut

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

wild boar

urinate (piss)

dirty

say

[pʷakəlap] n where the main mast is placed, in the middle of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun full moon

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

day before yesterday

day after tomorrow

adj. wide

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fashion earrings

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

stop

hut

twin

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fruit

wet, become

noun isolated parts of the reef

Speaker: Danio Poll