Mokilese English

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun people of Marshall Islands

Speaker: Ichiro John

elder

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

many people

other

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

where

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

ripe

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

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

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n scaleless fish

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

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb remain

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o mɔi nen amako] sentence the boy is sleeping in the hammock

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

thirty

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

bowstring

verb to be poor

n steel drum

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

noun eat

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fence

Speaker: Danio Poll

we know each other

noun mosquito larva

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

black ant (large, stings)

red ant

verb, transitive break

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fist

language of Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun a line held by a person in the back of the canoe that helps to control the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

back

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb touching one’s nose to a child’s forehead

Speaker: Danio Poll

yawn

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

n crab

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

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

frighten

male

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hungry

adj. brown

Speaker: Thakar Peter

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

silent

noun north

sell

there

verb hide

Speaker: Danio Poll

hide

pull in

n goatfish

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

v sexually experienced

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

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pa:t͡ʃ] n a sitting place on the edge of the canoe, on top of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

dirty

noun bridge

Speaker: Danio Poll

freed, be

defecate (shit)

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun full moon

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal aunt

paternal uncle

v to be broken or deflowered

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

noun maternal uncle

adj. thin

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

waterfall

farmer

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

stop

noun star

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

fruit

Speaker: Danio Poll

wet, become

wet

[wɔlo juːpa piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn