Mokilese English

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun leg

num. ten

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sea snake

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

bleed

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bowstring

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

[jo:jo] n piece of wood under the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

n steel drum

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

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb exchange, to

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

vi to put a spell on a tree to prevent others from gathering the fruit, usually also involves a physical, be cursed

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

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mosquito larva

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fist

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb talk

tongue

[lɔ:n jɔ:mʷur] n where the line holding down the sail is tied; near the end of the canoe but before the repiakiak

Speaker: Ichiro John

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

thirsty, be

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

old (person)

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pennant bannerfish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

when

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

left

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

take

pron. your

Speaker: Macy Edgar

pull in

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, transitive burn

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

water

ground

will be

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishing pole

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

v To have one’s first sexual experience (slang)

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

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knee

noun day

every day

sister

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. thin

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

strong

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

story

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree

stop

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

eighty

make

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

rain

Speaker: Danio Poll