doken silasil

Pohnpeian

Alternative forms

• dok en silasil (nonstandard)

Etymology

From dok (“injection”) +‎ en (construct particle) +‎ silasil (“safety, protection, immunity”). Compare the identical construction in Pingelapese, doak in silasil (“vaccine, vaccination”).

Noun

doken silasil

1. vaccine

   doken silasil ong kilitepw ― vaccine for chickenpox

2. vaccination, immunization

Verb

doken silasil

1. (intransitive) to be vaccinated, immunized

References

• “doken silasil”, in New Pohnpeian-English Online Dictionary‎^[1], Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaiʻi