Mokilese English

noun egg

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun people of Marshall Islands

Speaker: Ichiro John

drum

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

then

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adjective dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

rainbow

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharp

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

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

thumb

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

push

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun puffer fish

Example: Yellow form by Onderwijsgek, 2012, CC-BY-S 3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

n playing card

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

pronoun you (two)

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

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

n papaya

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

skin

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

blind

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

death

eldest sister

sentence I have a canoe

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

old (person)

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

snore

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

there

pron. your

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun nest

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fry

Speaker: Danio Poll

young woman

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃo ʃen nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran out from the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sand

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun forearm

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

thief

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

hot

burned

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweat

n hair swirl, said to be mark of a naughty child

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

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

day before yesterday

sister-in-law

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull open

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

raise

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb do

Speaker: Danio Poll

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

village

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun dog bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

hail