Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun egg

[amai] yours (plural)

noun elected chief

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb jerk

starve

mother-in-law

dry

noun east

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

push

no

sun

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

shaman

chicken

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. possible

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

buttocks

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

we know each other

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

undress

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

tired

noun cloud

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pregnant

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

here

Speaker: Danio Poll

death

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun monkey

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb want

noun pennant bannerfish

Example: Pennant Bannerfish (Heniochus chrysostomus) by Cliff, 2008, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun dream

Speaker: Danio Poll

every

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

wing

recognize

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

virgin

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

mud

[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

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun cave

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

young

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

twenty

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb play

[wa:n pʷit͡ʃ] n two wooden poles that sit vertically on top of the outrigger and connect to the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[wɔlo me kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man gave the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson