Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

[amai] yours (plural)

shoulder

noun people of Marshall Islands

Speaker: Ichiro John

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

tiger

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

[eː mɔi juːmʷen] sentence yes, I am sick

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun mangrove crab

Example: Mangrove Boardwalk, Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, South Queensland, AUSTRALIA by Bernard Dupont, 2000, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal grandfather

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

sharp

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

vi to force

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

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

toe

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

gonorrhea

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

put

comb (v)

noun heel

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

salivate

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

tongue

[liː o nikit͡ʃan pumpo wɔlo] sentence the woman took the fish from the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb lie (tell untruth)

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

malaria

sentence I have a canoe

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

old

smooth

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

worm

hungry, be

ocean

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃa] sentence I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo wɔlo] sentence I will give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

drunk, get

son

born, be

noun coconut in its last stage of development (meat is hard, husk is brown, coconut fallen from tree)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sand

water

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

will be

noun hut

Speaker: Danio Poll

heat (v)

[pʷit͡ʃ] n a wooden pole that sits above and paralell to the outrigger, on top of the kia; keeps the outrigger flexible

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun smell

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

young

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

paternal aunt

brother

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun gecko

seven

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

house

verb play

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

fruit

Speaker: Danio Poll

make

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun isolated parts of the reef

Speaker: Danio Poll