Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb jerk

wash self

pay

noun leg

paternal grandfather

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

seventy

seven hundred

flea

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

vi to force

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

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

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

bowstring

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

third

adj. possible

noun smoke

new

mouse

rat

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

roof

n stairs

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun broom

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kɔsɔ t͡ʃeltu] n the wooden back of the pahj, on the outrigger side

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

mad

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

n unidentified fish species

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

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

smooth

noun monkey

ripe coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː polobidi sugo ʃilɔː] sentence I cut the tree with the axe

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

boiled

clean

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb hide

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb prepare

verb make by weaving

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

dirty

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

n Kind of jellyfish

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

noun basket

Speaker: Thakar Peter

every day

paternal uncle

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

hear

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

noun remain

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

house

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

sixty

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hail