Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[derəwak] n the place on the canoe where ropes are tied

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb enter

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

save

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adjective dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

dry

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

noun east

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sad

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

return

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun moon, month

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

put

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

bow

noun broom

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pronoun you (singular)

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

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be pregnant

verb lie (tell untruth)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of wood on the tip of the kehu that holds all the lines attached to the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb smell

n spear for fishing

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

death

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

eldest sister

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

pain

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

green

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

ocean

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː t͡ʃɔpa iːla mɔ ai:o] sentence I did not go there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

born, be

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

husband

noun pipe

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

armpit

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

water

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

recognize

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

thief

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun knee

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

brother

fly (v)

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. powerful

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sixty

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll