Mokilese English

noun egg

his

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

[amai] yours (plural)

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

n surgeon fish

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

then

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

other person

paternal grandmother

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

sea snake

verb press

ripe

who

bleed

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

return

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

yesterday

watch (v)

second

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kia] n the two wooden poles in the middle of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

red ant

noun heel

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. very poor

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

scared

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest brother

[men] classifier for people

female

sweet

noun money

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

traditional chief

ocean

when

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

sell

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive burn

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puddle

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hammock

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

obey

coconut milk (handmade)

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

friend

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

tribe

noun smell

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

hole

sweat

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

twenty

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

brother in law

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pull open

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small piece of wood that is tied perpendicular to the kehu, about 1/3 from the bottom

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

star

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

feather

one man

Speaker: Danio Poll