Nukuoro English

adjective easily capsizable

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 5

noun the barely formed gelatinous layer inside the immature coconut

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 10

noun dead body

noun yellow root, used to treat bruises; tumeric root

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

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun dancing party

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 13

noun daytime

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 14

noun hour

verb lie down

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun coconut husk

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun rain

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 19

noun state of anxiety (psychological condition)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 22

noun spouse

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 24

adjective sad

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun, adjective man; male

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun dollar bill

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun a type of coconut tree

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 48

pronoun your (singular; for singular, alienable noun)

noun bride

there where you are

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun grandmothers

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

verb allow one’s beard to grow

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 66

a diving plaform made from a tree stuck in a coral head

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 69

noun the direction from which the wind blows

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 70

have children

verb give

verb wear

smoke cigarettes

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 81

noun black bird species (eats lizards and fish)

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun valley

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun coconut for drinking

Speaker: Maynard Henry

verb born, be

Speaker: Mina Lekka

cushion starfish

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 103

any stone of volcanic origin [imported from volcanic islands].

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 102

scare (someone); frighten (someone).

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 174

noun suction of a sea current, undertow.

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 187

low wages, low-priced

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 199

eat or drink just a little bit

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 215

noun star

Speaker: Maynard Henry

community

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 245

noun April

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective porous

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 97

noun November

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun Sunday

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun drought

adjective dexterous; quick

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun hundred dollar bill

Speaker: Mina Lekka

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

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 265

verb turn (something in a direction); change course. For long objects

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun toenail

finger

Speaker: Maynard Henry

number seventeen

noun January; small dipper

Speaker: Mina Lekka

right (direction)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb recognize

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun headache

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective hard

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun papaya; papaya tree

adjective broken, be

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun time

verb go or do by oneself; a one-man canoe

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 290

a type of prepared food made from dried breadfruit

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 278

rich in material possessions

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 290

calender

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun paddling canoe

balls of grated taro (for making huaahuu)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 298

easy living, a good life

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 299

verb tickle; to catch an octopus by tickling it (to dislodge it from its hole)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

egg

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 377

increase

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 309

verb sit

Speaker: Mina Lekka

pronoun our (plural, exclusive; for plural, inalienable noun)

a seedling; a shoot (of another plant) set aside for planting a seedling

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 316

skinny, thin (lacking in flesh)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 318

lion-fish

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 323

saliva

Speaker: Maynard Henry

what is that?

Speaker: Mina Lekka

stupid (like an animal)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 326

scull (a boat)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 327

trial or formal inquiry

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 328

orphaned

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

verb sleep (pl.)

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

grated raw taro which has dried out

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 334

to foretell a death by words or actions (which cause death)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 334

a wrestling maneuver

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 335

tail

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

good morning

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun sister

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun elder sister

noun boy

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

noun old person

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

shoulder blade

Speaker: Maynard Henry

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

an intermittent downpour of rain - considered an omen of birth, death, or the arrival of a ship

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 338

noun hard brown coconut shell

wasteful of taro when peeling it

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 340

verb burn (transitive)

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

nose

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

noun sailing vessel, large canoe, ship

noun waterfall

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun coconut water from a mature brown coconut

Speaker: Mina Lekka