Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun egg

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb jerk

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun maternal grandfather

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sea snake

who

canoe connecting fibers

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

verb remain

bowstring

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

try

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

hello

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

see

vi to alow a tentacle to be bitten off in order to escape the sea eel (of an octopus)

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

we know each other

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

fall

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

roof

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cloud

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

[liː o uli lamoi poɾin t͡ʃeto] sentence the woman went with me to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of wood on the tip of the kehu that holds all the lines attached to the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb smell

[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

red ant

wash clothes

honey

eldest sister

heart

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

ripe coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun money

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

silent

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun north

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

receive

verb, transitive burn

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sprouting coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest brother

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

river

tie

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

defecate (shit)

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knee

shell

n hair swirl, said to be mark of a naughty child

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

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. wide

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb begin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun star

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

make

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs