Nukuoro English

yesterday

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun duck

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun a type of prepared food made from dried breadfruit

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 20

adjective sad

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun a bunch

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 33

bottom, foundation

Speaker: Mina Lekka

ear

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

these ones (plural)

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun adze

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 60

verb understand

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun east

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun cheek

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

adjective yellow

Speaker: Mina Lekka

pronoun you (singular, object)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun head louse

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun Thursday

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb born, be

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun boundary stone

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 102

verb restrict

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 122

verb be blind

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

miserly

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 137

verb make boxes

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 137

risky, dangerous

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 181

verb ooze out

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 139

noun bath house

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun eyelash(es)

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

preposition from

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

adjective sharp

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun drought

noun nickel

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb fish for flying fish (at night)

oily

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 265

pronoun our (plural, exclusive; for dual, alienable noun)

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

noun air

Speaker: Maynard Henry

verb look at in an effort to identify or recognize

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb, adjective feel cold, shivering (from cold); flow (of tide)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

menstruation

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 279

adjective sweet

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun a careless diver (who is frequently almost drowned)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 284

a file (for filing metal)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 288

mantis shrimp

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 287

adjective broken up (into many pieces or groupings)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 288

clear-headed

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 289

coagulation of blood

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 306

a gust of wind

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 331

flying fish

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 333

noun dawn

adjective dark (in color), blackened; covered with (people, flies, etc.)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 341

noun smoke

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

apprehensive, nervous, anxious (in social contexts)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 348