Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

[aɾai] theirs

noun people of Marshall Islands

Speaker: Ichiro John

pron. ours

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

tiger

n lump

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

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

paternal grandmother

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun high

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun dawn

bleed

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

kind

weak

n Idiot or fool (jack-ass)

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

n skipjack (fish)

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

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirty

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

be quiet

verb to be poor

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

ill, become

never

send

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

new

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

red ant

rich

[kɔsɔ t͡ʃeltu] n the wooden back of the pahj, on the outrigger side

Speaker: Ichiro John

tusk

verb hold

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

how

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

young man

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ] sentence I am not going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃa] sentence I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃupakiɔ pit͡ʃu oldo] sentence I did not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

boiled

sell

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

v sexually experienced

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

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

[pa:t͡ʃ] n a sitting place on the edge of the canoe, on top of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fry

Speaker: Danio Poll

float

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun river

Speaker: Danio Poll

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

river

ground

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

why

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

tribe

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

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

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

night

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

farmer

tree

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun remain

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll