Mokilese English

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

drum

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leg

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eel

Example: Snowflake moray, Echidna nebulosa in Kona, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, United States by Brocken Inaglory, 2008, CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven hundred

noun dawn

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

little finger

kind

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

sneeze

n bluefin tuna

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

n rope that is tied to the canoe to hold the sail in place; there is one joahmwur on either side of the sail (front and back)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

n playing card

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

yesterday

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (two)

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

find

they know each other

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

n spine foot (fish)

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

noun heel

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

word

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean area very far from reef

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

honey

adj. happy

here

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest sister

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

worm

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

traditional chief

noun ocean

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː piɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

left

son

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

there

hidden, be

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

tie

arm

defecate (shit)

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

why

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

heat (v)

noun fishing pole

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

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun basket

Speaker: Thakar Peter

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

pull open

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

first

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

raise

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

understand

[wɔlo piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn