Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

shoulder

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

pay

twelve

paternal grandfather

dry

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

how much

interro. how much

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

sneeze

push

bowstring

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun eat

find

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

buttocks

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

vi to alow a tentacle to be bitten off in order to escape the sea eel (of an octopus)

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

[keinin eɾe] n wooden poles the run perpendicular to the apid and kia, on the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

undress

comb (v)

tired

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

think

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

spear

malaria

eldest brother

[mɔn] your

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

female

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. brown

Speaker: Thakar Peter

green

silent

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

clean

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sell

v sexually experienced

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

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

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

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun river

Speaker: Danio Poll

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun forearm

defecate (shit)

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

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun full moon

noun knee

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb fly

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

n party (celebration)

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

hear

copulate (have sex with)

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of wood on the side of a sailing canoe that holds the sail lines

Speaker: Danio Poll

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence I have 2 canoes

understand

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

n banana

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