Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

trail

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

tiger

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

wash hair

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leg

[eː mɔi juːmʷen] sentence yes, I am sick

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

seventy

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dawn

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

toe

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun finger

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

weak

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

sneeze

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb to be poor

sick

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

try

verb dry

pronoun you (two)

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

feed

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

vi to alow a tentacle to be bitten off in order to escape the sea eel (of an octopus)

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

noun body fat, grease

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bow

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

blind

n death

verb to kiss

Speaker: Danio Poll

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun canned milk (store bought)

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

sit down

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

old (person)

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

tooth

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃu] sentence I don’t see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut tree

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

that

hidden, be

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull in

verb, transitive burn

wife

hat

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

[piʃ men o] that pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

river

will be

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[pʷai] n a piece wood that holds down the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun hut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

shell

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

day before yesterday

sister-in-law

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

brother

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n party (celebration)

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

n fashion earrings

noun fashion earrings

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

farmer

twin

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

pull

verb do

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar