Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

his

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

[armaʒ dapɔ pono pinit͡ʃi] sentence how many people are going on the ship

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun duck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[eː mɔi juːmʷen] sentence yes, I am sick

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun east

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

thumb

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

weak

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puffer fish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

n playing card

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

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ki:l] n small wooden ridge underneath either side of a canoe, as well as underneath an outrigger, to protect the bottom

Speaker: Ichiro John

rat

big

noun hell

Speaker: Monique Poll

rich

verb, transitive break

word

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

very old woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

[liː o uli lamoi poɾin t͡ʃeto] sentence the woman went with me to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun piece of wood on the tip of the kehu that holds all the lines attached to the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

red ant

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

honey

adj. happy

n death

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

frighten

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

female

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

pain

smooth

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun money

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

sell

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

pron. your

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

arm

hot

[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

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun full moon

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

strong

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

separated, be

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

pull

understand

wet

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll