Pohnpeiann.adj.

1836 J. F. O'Connell Resid. Eleven Years New Holland xiv. 190 Many of the South Sea Islanders, and among them the Bonabeeans, are content with a gentle, titillating, thrilling meeting of the nasal protuberances.

1899 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 28 289 The Ponapeans are hardy and intrepid warriors and navigators, most expert fisherman, but surprisingly poor tillers of soil.

1942 National Geographic Mag. June 776/2 Ancient Ponapeans venturing long distances in sea-going canoes saw ‘the midnight sky red with a great blaze of fire as if of a million torches.’

1988 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 20 Mar. 36 Every Ponapean seems to have three Datsun pickups.

2003 Pacific Daily News (Agana, Guam) 12 Nov. 3 Hundreds of Pohnpeians on Guam showed up at the polls yesterday to participate in their home state's election for governors and lawmakers.

1880 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 10 59 The author..was unwilling now to undertake more than the simple reproduction in print of the recorded results of his earlier studies in Ponapean.

1948 Geogr. Rev. 38 606 The people of Mokil speak Ponapean.

1985 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 9 Feb. 21 [They] grew up as island boys..learning to spot fish and speak Pohnpeian like natives.

1836 J. F. O'Connell Resid. Eleven Years New Holland xi. 156 The generally kind treatment of her spouse—her fondness for her children—..are reasons sufficient why a Bonabeean woman should remain faithful and attached.

1859 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. & Statist. Soc. 1 134 It was the ancestors of the present race.., not Spaniards, who built these Ponapean structures.

1880 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 10 59 It is sufficiently explained by the generally variable character of Ponapean words.

1899 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 28 292 The Ponapean mosquito screen..is said to have been composed of a cloth made out of the bark of the Nin tree.

1919 A. Merritt Moon Pool iii. 26 Chau is the ancient Ponapean word both for sun and king.

1960 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 73 223 The comparison of Trukese and Ponapean love songs provides a further instance of the value of expressive cultural materials as socio-psychological indices.

2000 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 6 560 Pohnpeian language has twenty-nine possessive classifiers that constitute relations of control, temporality, spatiality, and status as well as ownership.