Mokilese English

[aiʔ] noun mine

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

noun people of Marshall Islands

Speaker: Ichiro John

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[derəwak] n the place on the canoe where ropes are tied

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun duck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

maternal grandmother

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb press

noun high

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharp

cook

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sad

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

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun priest

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

gonorrhea

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puffer fish

Example: Yellow form by Onderwijsgek, 2012, CC-BY-S 3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

shaman

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

see

buttocks

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

tired

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sniff

kiss

n unidentified fish species

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

waist

wash clothes

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

this

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

sharpening tool

frighten

noun nausea; start to get sea sick, but cannot vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun monkey

sit down

have

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

set on fire

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green coconut

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

arm

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

mud

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweat

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

n Kind of jellyfish

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

day after tomorrow

today

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. wide

fly (v)

story

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun star

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

twin

vomit

blue

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

turtle

sixty

verb do

Speaker: Danio Poll

wet

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wɔlo piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson