Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun people of Marshall Islands

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[eː mɔi juːmʷen] sentence yes, I am sick

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal grandfather

mother-in-law

cook

in morning

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

n love

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

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. low

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

push

ship

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[jɔː war ewar] sentence I don’t have a canoe

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (two)

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

verb exchange, to

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

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

tired

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

tusk

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

word

think

noun piece of wood on the tip of the kehu that holds all the lines attached to the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

n unidentified fish species

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

honey

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sharpening tool

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

female

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

pain

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

leech

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

boiled

left

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

born, be

that

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden, be

verb hide

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

broken

wife

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

obey

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

why

hot

tribe

noun basket

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n hair swirl, said to be mark of a naughty child

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

sister

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

fly (v)

n party (celebration)

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

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

story

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun leaf

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

singer

vomit

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

blue

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fruit

west

sixty

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar