Mokilese English

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

rainbow

noun eel

Example: Snowflake moray, Echidna nebulosa in Kona, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, United States by Brocken Inaglory, 2008, CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

seventy

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

ripe

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

return

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

weak

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

gonorrhea

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[jɔrɔkli] n on the side of a sailing canoe to hold the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puffer fish

Example: Yellow form by Onderwijsgek, 2012, CC-BY-S 3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

n steel drum

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

thank you

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

watch (v)

find

[kapʷʉdpʷʉd] n a ridge sticking out from the sides of a canoe that protects the inside of it from high waves

Speaker: Ichiro John

we know each other

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

n stairs

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hold

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

[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

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

waist

n bracelet

malaria

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

traditional chief

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

son

there

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

v sexually experienced

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

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun puddle

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

obey

young woman

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

wing

noun ground

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun clown triggerfish

Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

n Kind of jellyfish

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

n batfish

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

sister

sister-in-law

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull open

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb play

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun fruit

[wɔlu t͡ʃuːpa kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man did not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll