Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun people of Marshall Islands

Speaker: Ichiro John

[armaʒ dapɔ pono pinit͡ʃi] sentence how many people are going on the ship

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb enter

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. ten

Speaker: Macy Edgar

twelve

dry

how much

seven hundred

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

louse, head

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sharpen

noun priest

return

kind

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb remain

n skipjack (fish)

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

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

cry

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

ill, become

noun moon, month

yesterday

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

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

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

n spine foot (fish)

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

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elbow

bow

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sniff

[lɔ:n jɔ:mʷur] n where the line holding down the sail is tied; near the end of the canoe but before the repiakiak

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

honey

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

death

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

pain

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

clean

there

noun coconut crab

Example: Crancs dels cocoters a Bora-Bora. by Brocken Inaglory, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0 via ca.wikipedia.org

Speaker: Danio Poll

four

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb escape

freed, be

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

say

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hot

hole

noun day

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

v to try to break or deflower

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

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

farmer

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[wɔlo piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun isolated parts of the reef

Speaker: Danio Poll