Mokilese English

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun people of Marshall Islands

Speaker: Ichiro John

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

many people

n parrotfish

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

starve

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

rainbow

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

little finger

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

cry

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

never

shaman

thank you

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun eat

verb exchange, to

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

thousand

they know each other

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

fall

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun fist

[liː o uli lamoi poɾin t͡ʃeto] sentence the woman went with me to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

widow

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

sniff

n unidentified fish species

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

sky

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly

n bracelet

spear

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

[men] classifier for people

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

raw

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb want

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

born, be

sell

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puddle

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ground

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun clown triggerfish

Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun basket

Speaker: Thakar Peter

every day

day before yesterday

day after tomorrow

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hear

farmer

noun meat

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

eighty

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

fruit

Speaker: Danio Poll

wet

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n banana

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