Nukuoro English

noun self-love

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 10

noun palm (of hand)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 10

noun banyan tree (Ficus prolixa Forst.)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 14

noun fish sp., wrasse

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 17

noun upper arm; wing

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

adjective ugly

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun fish sp.

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 20

headache

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun pig

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

adjective short

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun the light just before daybreak

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 25

noun a knot tied at the end of a rope or a string to prevent its unravelling

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 25

noun dragonfly

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 26

verb hug

Speaker: Mina Lekka

fault, crime, guilt

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective tired

adjective good

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun cover for an earth oven

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 49

number three hundred

verb allow one’s beard to grow

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 66

unstable, poorly balanced

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 71

half of a clam shell

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 71

how much

verb give (to you)

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun banana

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb eat (transitive)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

threadfin fish

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 84

sand

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 87

outrigger boom

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 88

to see a vision, hallucinate

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 89

hillock

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 90

verb undress

Speaker: Mina Lekka

pronoun you (dual)

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

verb frighten

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun head louse

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

verb spoil (children), bring up (children) badly

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 103

noun hammock

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb feed

Speaker: Mina Lekka

cushion starfish

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 103

verb put weight on, make unhappy

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 123

noun a small axe, hatchet

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 124

verb make a total of ten people

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 131

verb hide (something) from

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 188

verb urinate (piss)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb do, make

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb bleeding profusely

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 229

verb sharpen

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun hotel

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun hole

Speaker: Maynard Henry

noun breadfruit

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

sorcery (made with chants)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 248

verb to bite

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective skinny (people, animals)

Source: Mina Lekka

noun Sunday

Speaker: Mina Lekka

inclined to throw one’s legs over those sleeping nearby (when sleeping)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 256

noun leaves (or hair) that have lost their natural healthy color

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 257

number five hundred

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

noun forest

Speaker: Maynard Henry

type of prepared food made from breadfruit

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 265

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

Speaker: Mina Lekka

pronoun his/her (for dual, alienable noun)

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

the uvula and adjacent portions of the oral cavity

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 278

noun parents

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb open (intransitive, pl.)

Example: Denga abaaba gu maahuge. (The doors are open.)

noun nipple

Speaker: Mina Lekka

dark red

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 276

noun dime

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun fifty dollar bill

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb recognize

Speaker: Mina Lekka

flu

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective to feel the nibbling of fish on a fishing line

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 284

barkcloth, made from the inner skin of the breadfruit

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 285

adjective breathing

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun bird

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

clear-headed

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 289

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

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 290

calender

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb remain

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun knife

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun grouper

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb chew

Speaker: Mina Lekka

eye of thtaro corn

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 312

pronoun your (plural; for plural noun)

silversides

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 321

what

Speaker: Mina Lekka

October

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 324

sleep soundly

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 326

adjective white headed; old (of living things); big (of animals)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

damn it!

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 333

adjective wet

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun paternal aunt

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

noun father-in-law

noun middle (of something round); center

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 73

verb see, watch, find, seek out

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun young coconut tree (bearing no fruit or its first fruit)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 06/16/15

noun mother-in-law

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

noun grandfather

type of prepared food dish made from taro cooked in a half coconut shell

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 339

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

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 341

adjective steadily ‘like someone or something, feel affection for’ cf. vaasuu

Speaker: Mina Lekka