Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[amai] yours (plural)

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

[aɾai] theirs

noun people of Marshall Islands

Speaker: Ichiro John

many people

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[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

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

interro. how much

Speaker: Danio Poll

flea

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

who

n scaleless fish

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

thumb

little finger

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

send

yesterday

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

find

buttocks

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

twist open

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

comb (v)

bow

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive break

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. very poor

verb talk

verb be pregnant

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

n unidentified fish species

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

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

n crab

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

[men] classifier for people

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun canned milk (store bought)

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sit down

elderly

traditional chief

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo pɔː] sentence I will not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː polobidi sugo ʃilɔː] sentence I cut the tree with the axe

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

v sexually experienced

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

set on fire

son-in-law

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

freed, be

hand

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

why

mud

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

every day

day after tomorrow

today

n a piece of wood across the top edge of the canoe that holds the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb fly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

farmer

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fruit

west

understand

wet, become

lift open

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n banana

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