Nukuoro English

noun female

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun bird sp., fairy tern (Gygis alba)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 7

noun evening

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun the barely formed gelatinous layer inside the immature coconut

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 10

every day

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun body

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 13

noun dead body

pronoun your (singular; for plural, alienable noun)

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun father (informal)

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

adjective ugly

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun fish sp.

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 20

noun coconut crab

Example: Crancs dels cocoters a Bora-Bora. by Brocken Inaglory, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0 via ca.wikipedia.org

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb answer; talk to

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun sow

noun sow

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun wife

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

noun grave

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun worm

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun spear, branch of

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 48

be quiet

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun butterfly fish

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 57

noun spiny starfish

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 62

noun grandfathers

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun apodous sea cucumber

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 70

verb wet, become

Speaker: Mina Lekka

sea cucumber

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 77

sakau drink

Source: Johnny Rudolph

adjective yellow

Speaker: Mina Lekka

hawksbill turtle

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 87

noun basket

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

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective green

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun dark images, shadows in the darkness

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 93

noun measurement

Source: Johnny Rudolph

verb to go about exposing oneself to the sun’s rays

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 130

verb make a total of ten people

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 131

verb to treat as an eldest child

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 142

noun a boil on the body

verb die (euphemistic); take a break

Source: Mina Lekka

verb complete (something); kill (someone)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 179

verb breastfeed

verb, noun urinate, urine

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun chest (body part)

noun crook of the knee or elbow

noun star

Speaker: Maynard Henry

verb choose

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun small green fruit, used to treat diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart problems

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

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun flower, fruit

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun frog, toad

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun pale; whitish yellow

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 98

noun the sort of rain which is an omen that a ship will come

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 256

noun lime

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

adjective, verb drunk, get drunk (pl.)

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

adjective sad

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

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

Speaker: Mina Lekka

those things by you (dual)

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

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

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

adjective small

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun small green offshoots of the coconut tree trunk

number nineteen

noun January; small dipper

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun fifty dollar bill

Speaker: Mina Lekka

number twenty two

noun bamboo

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

die peacefully (shown by a beatific facial expression on the corpse and the calmness of the weather)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 279

adjective beautiful

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

open

verb arrive

noun small bird

barely scratched

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 290

clear-headed

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 289

decision

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 291

noun bow

adjective savoury (meat)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb easily mounu

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 299

adjective bent slightly (not sharply)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

fishing tackle box

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 311

duplicate

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 306

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

noun pipe

what is that?

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb ask

Speaker: Mina Lekka

a fleshy (non-muscular) man

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 331

a hissing sound used to indicate disapproval

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 334

verb arrive

verb wash hair

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun toe

noun sister

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun younger sister

noun maternal uncle

noun child

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

noun son-in-law

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

uncouth person

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 72

full moon (a period comprising two nights)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 74

noun elbow

white-throated frigate bird

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 338

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

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun rainbow

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

verb drink

Speaker: Mina Lekka

milk

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 344

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