Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n surgeon fish

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

save

paternal grandmother

maternal grandmother

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb press

cook

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

vi to be born

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

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

ill, become

shaman

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

n playing card

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

n steel drum

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

feed

noun eat

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

we know each other

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

root

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

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun a line held by a person in the back of the canoe that helps to control the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean area outside and approximate to the barrier reef

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

widow

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

sky

yawn

adj. happy

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sentence I have a canoe

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

male

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

smooth

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

ocean

silent

when

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut tree

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

drunk, get

boiled

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

n goatfish

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

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun pipe

hat

[pit͡ʃo ʃen nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran out from the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

freed, be

thigh

[pʷit͡ʃ] n a wooden pole that sits above and paralell to the outrigger, on top of the kia; keeps the outrigger flexible

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

pull open

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[wɔlu t͡ʃuːpa kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man did not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

n banana

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