Mokilese English

elder

noun elected chief

save

nineteen

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

twelve

noun mangrove crab

Example: Mangrove Boardwalk, Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, South Queensland, AUSTRALIA by Bernard Dupont, 2000, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun maternal grandfather

maternal grandmother

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

one

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb press

flea

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

trap (v)

little finger

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

n skipjack (fish)

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

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o doːda in sugo] sentence the boy climbed up the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

try

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fence

Speaker: Danio Poll

thousand

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hell

Speaker: Monique Poll

noun broom

Speaker: Thakar Peter

tusk

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. very poor

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pregnant

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

sniff

kiss

noun ocean area very far from reef

eldest brother

pain

noun nausea; start to get sea sick, but cannot vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

old (person)

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

clean

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull in

noun coconut in its last stage of development (meat is hard, husk is brown, coconut fallen from tree)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dream

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sprouting coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

dirty

ground

say

[pʷakəlap] n where the main mast is placed, in the middle of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

tribe

noun fishing pole

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

hole

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

today

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

singer

farmer

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

house

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

turtle

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn