Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

shoulder

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

save

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

noun maternal grandfather

seven hundred

noun knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

weak

thirty

[jɔː war ewar] sentence I don’t have a canoe

verb to be poor

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

shaman

n playing card

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

n sweetheart

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

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mouse

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ t͡ʃeltu] n the wooden back of the pahj, on the outrigger side

Speaker: Ichiro John

tusk

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb talk

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb smell

verb jump

Speaker: Danio Poll

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest brother

verb to kiss

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

pain

sweet

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun money

elderly

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

ocean

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo pɔː] sentence I will not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[nitin pɔŋ] n the section of the canoe on the other side of the outrigger; includes the poang, koasoau jaldu, pahj, etc.

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

clean

that

pull in

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

husband

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

hat

hammock

youngest sister

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun river

Speaker: Danio Poll

wing

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[pʷai] n a piece wood that holds down the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

n tip of penis (slang)

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

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

v to be broken or deflowered

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

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

hear

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun remain

seven

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

vomit

blue

eighty

pull

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

wet

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll