Mokilese English

what

save

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

seventy

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sharp

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sneeze

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

ship

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

no

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun moon, month

noun puffer fish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

shaman

yesterday

see

new

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun mosquito larva

undress

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

red ant

noun bow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fist

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

mad

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

sky

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

honey

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

thirsty, be

here

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun intestines

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

ocean

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will not go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃupakiɔ pit͡ʃu oldo] sentence I did not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut tree

[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

clean

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

receive

n goatfish

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

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun puddle

[pa:t͡ʃ] n a sitting place on the edge of the canoe, on top of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pipe

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

arm

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knee

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

twenty

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. powerful

n fashion earrings

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

eighty

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

village

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll