Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun people of Marshall Islands

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb enter

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb jerk

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

nineteen

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

seventy

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharp

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

vi to be born

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

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

little finger

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o mɔi nen amako] sentence the boy is sleeping in the hammock

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

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

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

[jɔrɔkli] n on the side of a sailing canoe to hold the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

third

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kapʷʉdpʷʉd] n a ridge sticking out from the sides of a canoe that protects the inside of it from high waves

Speaker: Ichiro John

second

[kia] n the two wooden poles in the middle of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

comb (v)

rich

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. very poor

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hip

red ant

wash clothes

malaria

death

[men] classifier for people

noun breastmilk

male

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sweet

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sell

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden, be

pull in

every

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

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bridge

Speaker: Danio Poll

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun forearm

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷai] n a piece wood that holds down the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

tribe

hole

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thin

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

separated, be

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

west

village

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll