Nukuoro English

noun dawn

Speaker: Maynard Henry

love

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun throat (of fish only)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 10

pronoun I, me

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

verb press

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun fish sp., snapper

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 17

noun scab, crust

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 18

noun youngest leaf of a coconut palm

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun fish sp.

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 20

noun hanging basket made from coconut palm

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 06/10/15

verb answer; talk to

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun mud

Speaker: Maynard Henry

noun boar

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun ovaries and fallopian tubes

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 27

adjective sad

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun sibling (mostly children’s talk)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 33

noun tuna

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective another

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

custom, habit

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun worm

Speaker: Johnny Rudolphh

noun people

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

noun a type of coconut tree

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 48

noun bride

blind

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun tables

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun the youngest child of a couple

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 57

noun mother (formal)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 59

ambush; attack by surprise or stealth

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 64

noun bench fitted with a tool to grate coconuts

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun ladder

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun dry brown husk from the branches of the coconut palm

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

verb eat this

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun cheek

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

noun plant species whose leaf is used for cooking

noun thigh

Speaker: Maynard Henry

verse of a song

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 94

noun ankle

Speaker: Mina Lekka

the name of a ghost in Nukuoro legend.

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 102

improving

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 123

chase each other

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 128

verb know each other

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

rinse off salt from the body (with freshwater)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 161

hurry, rush.

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 189

adjective mean; inconsiderate

the time at which it is midday

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 200

noun spirit, soul

urinate (piss)

adjective funny, silly

noun cloud

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

verb do

sort of steal

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 230

noun earring

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun land with mountains (e.g. Pohnpei, United States)

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun breadfruit (singular)

noun family

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

at night

Speaker: Mina Lekka

in morning

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb blow

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun frog, toad

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb to bite

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective better

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun November

Speaker: Mina Lekka

firewood

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 254

slack (of rope); soft (of skin or paper); pliable (of hair); flexible

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 257

noun skirt; sewn skirt

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

number five hundred

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

noun ant

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

to pick up information by asking others, who have lied (so that one’s information is false)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 265

trembling

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 266

the fatty part of the turtle

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 269

noun ten dollar bill

Speaker: Mina Lekka

number fourteen

flu

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun dress

noun bird

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

adjective abraded in several places cf. masole

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb walk stealthily in a crouch

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun knife

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun hair (on the head)

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Maynard Henry

bite someone

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 311

act as an interpreter

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 312

duplicate

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 306

the spirit of a human being after his death

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 321

verb having white hair

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun plant species with white fragrant flowers

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 06/11/15

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun salt

Speaker: Maynard Henry

flying fish

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 333

verb sleep (pl.)

Example: Gilaadeu nogo sseni anaboo. (They slept all night.)

noun elder sister

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

noun ear

noun child

gossipy person, telltale

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 72

noun dawn

verb raise

Speaker: Mina Lekka

first

noun sea cucumber

Speaker: Mina Lekka

white-throated frigate bird

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 338

milk

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 344

noun sailing vessel, large canoe, ship