Mokilese English

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[aɾai] theirs

noun people of Marshall Islands

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

n large lizard introduced by the Japanese to Mokil Atoll; may possibly be a Mangrove Monitor (Varanus indicus)

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun mangrove crab

Example: Mangrove Boardwalk, Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, South Queensland, AUSTRALIA by Bernard Dupont, 2000, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

maternal grandmother

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

rainbow

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sad

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

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

[t͡ʃimʷ] n the rail on top of the canoe; above the kapwidpwid; prevents water from entering the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

send

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

adj. skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

twist open

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

[ki:l] n small wooden ridge underneath either side of a canoe, as well as underneath an outrigger, to protect the bottom

Speaker: Ichiro John

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

bow

salivate

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. very poor

word

very old woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mad

sniff

kiss

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sky

n bracelet

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

scared

true

noun breastmilk

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

pain

raw

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

have children

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut crab

Example: Crancs dels cocoters a Bora-Bora. by Brocken Inaglory, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0 via ca.wikipedia.org

Speaker: Danio Poll

wife

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun bear

Speaker: Thakar Peter

youngest brother

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pɔŋ] n wooden platform on the top of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun smell

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hole

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb fly

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

story

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

waterfall

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hut

blue

lift open

[wɔlu t͡ʃuːpa kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man did not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[wɔlo juːpa piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[wɔlo me kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man gave the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun isolated parts of the reef

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll