Pohnpeian Talking Dictionary

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aio

n. yesterday

duhdu

v. wash self

edied

n. smoke

Speaker: Pressler Martin

ehu

adj. one

eisek duwau

adj. nineteen

epwiki

adj. hundred

ese

know

hair

smoke

Speaker: Mario S.Abello

ia wen pweine?

n. how much

idawehn

obey

ihmw

n. house

isuh

adj. seven

kadek

adj. kind

kapahieu

adj. fourth

kapatau

n mucus

kapehde

n belly

kapw

adj. new

kapwurehla

v. return

karakar

v. heat

karakar

adj. hot

kaselel

adj. beautiful

kehl

n. fence

keimwin neh

n. ankle

kepwehpwe

adj. rich

keriau

adj. second

kid

adj. thousand

kili

n skin

koaros

both

kohla

go

kohmw

n. comb

kol

verb hold

Speaker: Pressler Martin

kutohr

n. egg

lapala

adj. huge

lepin lokaia

n. word

likan

n. spider

likeilap

adv. elderly

limeisek

adj. fifty

luhwe

v. remain

lukope

n hip

lukope

n waist

masak

v. fear

maskun

adj. be blind

mat (wahntuhke)

adj. ripe

mehla

n. death

mehntang

have diarrhea

meleilei

adj. silent

Speaker: Pressler Martin

men mwenge

adj. hungry

menipinip

adj. thin

mwetwel

n. garden

mwus

v vomit

nahs

n. hut

nan kehl

n. cage

Nan namw

n lagoon

Speaker: Pressler Martin

nei pwutak

noun son

Speaker: Mario S.Abello

neitik

give birth

nihpwong

n. at night

nim

v. drink

nohno

noun mother

Speaker: Mario S.Abello

ouraman

n. dream

padik

v. press

pahr

noun year

Speaker: Pressler Martin

pali sokohiek/ samwalahr

adj. left

pei

v. fight

pihr

v. fly

pilen mese

v. tear

pirain

fry

pirida

awake

poarokedi

v. catch

pwain

pay

pwal en ninsohrahn

n. dawn

Speaker: Pressler Martin

pwel matak

n. mud

Speaker: Pressler Martin

pwohking

noun cave

Speaker: Pressler Martin

pwohn pwehl

adj. brown

rahn tuhke

n. branch

Speaker: Pressler Martin

riau

adj. two

riei serepein

n. sister

rieisek

adj. twenty

rien ei pahpa ohl

n. paternal uncle

ritingada

open

rokila

adj. hidden

sapeng

v. answer

sineik

n. snake

soai

n. story

soumwahu en amwuse

n. malaria

soun koul

n. singer

soun pwoak

n. hunter

suke

adj sweet

Speaker: Pressler Martin

takain moange

n skull

tehlap

adj. wide

tep

kick

tepida

v. begin

tepinwere

n neck

Speaker: Mario S. Abello

uhnpeh

n forearm

uhpw

n. coconut, green

Speaker: Pressler Martin

usu

n. star

Speaker: Pressler Martin

wahu

n. valley

waluh

adj. eight

weir

v. dig

weneu

adj. six

winen pahn peh

n armpit

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Dictionary produced by Pressler Martin, Mario Abello, Gregory D. S. Anderson and K. David Harrison. (2013).
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how to cite: Anderson, Gregory D.S., Pressler Martin, Mario Abello and K. David Harrison. 2013. Pohnpeian Talking Dictionary. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. http://www.talkingdictionary.org/pohnpeian

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