Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun people of Marshall Islands

Speaker: Ichiro John

[armaʒ dapɔ pono pinit͡ʃi] sentence how many people are going on the ship

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

wash hair

noun leg

other person

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[ia omʷunu] sentence where is your mother

seventy

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

in morning

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

thumb

noun finger

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

chicken

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

find

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

n spine foot (fish)

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

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb jump

Speaker: Danio Poll

yawn

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirsty, be

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

raw

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb want

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

when

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃu] sentence I don’t see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

take

verb dream of (something)

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun river

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bridge

Speaker: Danio Poll

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

thief

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

mud

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sticky

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun foot

night

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

n a piece of wood across the top edge of the canoe that holds the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun maternal uncle

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

verb begin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

story

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

waterfall

summer

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun dog bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

rain

Speaker: Danio Poll