Mokilese English

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun elected chief

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash hair

starve

nineteen

how much

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

flea

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

bowstring

sick

send

watch (v)

adj. skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

buttocks

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun body fat, grease

Speaker: Thakar Peter

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

tired

[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 cloud

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

think

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb smell

wash clothes

noun ocean area very far from reef

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

eldest brother

true

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

worm

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

traditional chief

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ] sentence I am not going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː polobidi sugo ʃilɔː] sentence I cut the tree with the axe

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

snore

noun north

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sell

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

v sexually experienced

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

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

river

noun bridge

Speaker: Danio Poll

defecate (shit)

recognize

virgin

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knee

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

sister-in-law

pull open

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

hear

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

stop

noun remain

sentence I have 2 canoes

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

feather

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter