Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun egg

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence why are you here

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

then

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash self

pay

[ia omʷunu] sentence where is your mother

ripe

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

slow

thumb

noun priest

verb remain

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

n skipjack (fish)

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

sneeze

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

ill, become

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

send

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

noun eat

second

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

n papaya

mouse

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cloud

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

word

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

very old woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

[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

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

eldest brother

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry

sit down

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sell

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

v sexually experienced

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

noun coconut in its last stage of development (meat is hard, husk is brown, coconut fallen from tree)

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

dirty

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

ground

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

day before yesterday

paternal aunt

n a piece of wood across the top edge of the canoe that holds the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

sister

adj. wide

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

fly (v)

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence I have 2 canoes

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll

n banana

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