Mokilese English

[aiʔ] noun mine

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[aɾai] theirs

noun people of Marshall Islands

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun people of Mwoakilloa

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun elected chief

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

other

maternal grandmother

verb press

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

trap (v)

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

child

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun year, age

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

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

buttocks

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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 brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun fingernail

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

roof

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean area very far from reef

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

here

Speaker: Danio Poll

death

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun monkey

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

when

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

there

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

receive

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

four

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest sister

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[piʃ men o] that pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun pond

tie

defecate (shit)

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷakəlap] n where the main mast is placed, in the middle of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

n tip of penis (slang)

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

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

shell

every day

paternal aunt

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

farmer

separated, be

noun meat

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

raise

house

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

eighty

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

understand

verb do

Speaker: Danio Poll

make

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

village

wet