Mokilese English

noun egg

[aiʔ] noun mine

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

trail

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leg

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

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sharp

noun dawn

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

[jɔː war ewar] sentence I don’t have a canoe

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

[jo:jo] n piece of wood under the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

ill, become

try

chicken

Speaker: Danio Poll

send

hello

pronoun you (two)

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

throw

rat

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

big

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

sniff

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

female

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

have

noun ocean

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[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

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut crab

Example: Crancs dels cocoters a Bora-Bora. by Brocken Inaglory, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0 via ca.wikipedia.org

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

young woman

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃo kaula nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran into the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

free

water

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

will be

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

thief

mud

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[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

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

v to be broken or deflowered

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

noun maternal uncle

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb play

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

make

village