Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun people of Marshall Islands

Speaker: Ichiro John

elder

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n surgeon fish

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

[ia omʷunu] sentence where is your mother

verb press

ripe

cook

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

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

return

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

no

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

hello

adj. possible

verb exchange, to

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

noun fingernail

bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

undress

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

red ant

big

salivate

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun a line held by a person in the back of the canoe that helps to control the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pregnant

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mad

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of wood on the tip of the kehu that holds all the lines attached to the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[men] classifier for people

verb to kiss

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun breastmilk

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sweet

young man

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

silent

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liː o poɾi t͡ʃeto] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

there

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

hide

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

young woman

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[piʃ men o] that pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

defecate (shit)

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

why

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hot

[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 cave

v To have one’s first sexual experience (slang)

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

every day

day before yesterday

paternal aunt

twenty

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ear

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

farmer

tree

noun meat

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

pull

turtle

lift open

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll