Mokilese English

his

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

trail

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

elder

tiger

many people

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

ninety

yes

noun fan

sharp

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

sad

in morning

vi to be born

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

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

n skipjack (fish)

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

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o mɔi nen amako] sentence the boy is sleeping in the hammock

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

no

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (two)

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

feed

see

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

throw

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

comb (v)

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hold

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

mad

verb smell

n unidentified fish species

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

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun ocean area very far from reef

n spear for fishing

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

adj. happy

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

n death

[men] classifier for people

verb to kiss

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[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

son

verb dream of (something)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

float

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green coconut

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

tribe

[pʷit͡ʃ] n a wooden pole that sits above and paralell to the outrigger, on top of the kia; keeps the outrigger flexible

Speaker: Ichiro John

v To have one’s first sexual experience (slang)

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

shell

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

today

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small piece of wood that is tied perpendicular to the kehu, about 1/3 from the bottom

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll