Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

trail

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun elected chief

which

drum

noun duck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

interro. how much

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

cook

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

slow

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb remain

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

n skipjack (fish)

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

three

Speaker: Macy Edgar

cry

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

ill, become

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

throw

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

rat

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

undress

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heel

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean area very far from reef

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

[men] classifier for people

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

young man

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

sit down

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

traditional chief

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃa] sentence I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[nitin pɔŋ] n the section of the canoe on the other side of the outrigger; includes the poang, koasoau jaldu, pahj, etc.

Speaker: Ichiro John

that

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun puddle

youngest sister

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[piʃ men o] that pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

dirty

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

freed, be

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

burned

tribe

sweat

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

n Kind of jellyfish

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

n hair swirl, said to be mark of a naughty child

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

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fashion earrings

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull

village

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll