Mokilese English

[aiʔ] noun mine

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

shoulder

noun people of Marshall Islands

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj lumpy

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

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

nineteen

mother-in-law

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

sea snake

flea

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

weak

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o doːda in sugo] sentence the boy climbed up the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

ill, become

try

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

n steel drum

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

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ke:rup] n a wooden ridge below the canoe that protects the bottom from coral and keeps the canoe steady in the water

Speaker: Ichiro John

n papaya

vi to put a spell on a tree to prevent others from gathering the fruit, usually also involves a physical, be cursed

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

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

n spine foot (fish)

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

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. very poor

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (tell untruth)

Speaker: Danio Poll

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

kiss

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest brother

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

old

noun monkey

sweet

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

sit down

noun pennant bannerfish

Example: Pennant Bannerfish (Heniochus chrysostomus) by Cliff, 2008, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will not go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

v sexually experienced

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

verb be prepared

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

free

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

river

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun foot

noun cave

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

n batfish

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

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

adj. wide

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

strong

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun piece of wood on the side of a sailing canoe that holds the sail lines

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

hut

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

fruit

Speaker: Danio Poll

west

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll