Mokilese English

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun people of Marshall Islands

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun leg

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sharp

cook

bleed

n scaleless fish

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

return

kind

n Idiot or fool (jack-ass)

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

ship

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

bowstring

yesterday

hello

pronoun you (two)

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

thousand

rat

comb (v)

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

rich

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be pregnant

num. five

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun monkey

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun money

adj. brown

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pennant bannerfish

Example: Pennant Bannerfish (Heniochus chrysostomus) by Cliff, 2008, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr

Speaker: Danio Poll

ocean

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

son

born, be

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

pron. your

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n goatfish

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

v sexually experienced

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

verb dream of (something)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

four

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

son-in-law

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pipe

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pɔŋ] n wooden platform on the top of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

ground

noun clown triggerfish

Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

virgin

friend

mud

noun hut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

sticky

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun full moon

n tip of penis (slang)

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

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

hear

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

separated, be

star

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

eighty

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

hail