Mokilese English

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun people of Mwoakilloa

Speaker: Ichiro John

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

tiger

which

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

n surgeon fish

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

then

n parrotfish

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

wash someone

nineteen

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

rainbow

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

who

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

n scaleless fish

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

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

ship

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

shaman

verb dry

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

thank you

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

[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

noun fingernail

skin

noun elbow

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

widow

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

blind

here

Speaker: Danio Poll

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun intestines

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː t͡ʃɔpa iːla mɔ ai:o] sentence I did not go there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

snore

left

hidden

v sexually experienced

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

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

wife

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

young woman

noun river

Speaker: Danio Poll

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

wild boar

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

wing

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

thief

mud

burned

n Kind of jellyfish

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

noun day

day after tomorrow

v to be broken or deflowered

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

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly

Speaker: Danio Poll

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

copulate (have sex with)

tear

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

separated, be

raise

[wa:n pʷit͡ʃ] n two wooden poles that sit vertically on top of the outrigger and connect to the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll

hail