Nukuoro English

noun the portion of the atoll lagoon just lagoonward of the fringing reef

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 4

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

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

everything, everybody, each and every

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 10

verb love intensely

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun dancing party

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 13

noun anchor rope

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 6

noun a fishing method (angling with the side of a flying fish as bait)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 14

adjective ugly

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

bottom, foundation

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun sisters

adjective tired

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun son

Speaker: Johnny Rudolphh

noun shaman; someone who does traditional medicine

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun Wednesday

Speaker: Mina Lekka

pronoun your (plural; for singular noun)

noun broom

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun bench fitted with a tool to grate coconuts

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

old

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb put

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun chicken

to hang oneself

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 78

noun cheek

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

a type of bowl

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 84

unicorn fish

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 88

noun fat

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun Indian mulberry, cheese fruit (seeds)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun hat

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

verb frighten

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective burned

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

number four

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

put weight on, make unhappy.

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 123

noun a boil on the body

Source: Mina Lekka

hide

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

verb try

Speaker: Mina Lekka

relationship of spouse’s sibling to sibling’s spouse

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 230

an avoidance relationship between kin

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 230

sort of steal

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 230

noun toilet

Source: Johnny Rudolph

fishing beyond the reef (on the seaward side of the atoll).

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 101

echo

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 232

verb leave

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun hole

Speaker: Maynard Henry

lung

Speaker: Maynard Henry

fill to the brim

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 243

noun full moon

noun family

fishing pole

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 245

backbone

Speaker: Maynard Henry

noun dry wood

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

noun drought; dry weather

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

the posterior portion of the hermit crab

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 256

verb finish

Speaker: Mina Lekka

rich

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

adjective angry

Source: Mina Lekka

a well-dressed man (always wanting to llidi)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 264

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

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun testicles

Source: Mina Lekka

verb die

Speaker: Mina Lekka

raw

Speaker: Mina Lekka

number nineteen

number fifty

Speaker: Mina Lekka

die in agony (owing to having led a bad life)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 279

noun month

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective happy

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

verb drown

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun shark

Speaker: Mina Lekka

more and more; diminshing rainfall

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 288

noun fan

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

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun gallbladder

adjective round, clear in outline

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun grouper

Speaker: Mina Lekka

dislocated jaw

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 310

adjective repeatedly ngavali (as a diving board in use)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 311

act as an interpreter

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 312

hurting in the ears from noise

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 312

to husk (a coconut) with a sharp stick

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 313

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

noun pipe

verb rain

verb touch

mollusk, Spondylus

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 322

noun coins

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

adjective stopped, ended

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 329

verb grow, develop; coconut apple

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 331

stained in one place

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 334

completely wet all over

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 334

noun school

pronoun our (plural, inclusive; for singular noun)

noun teacher

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun church

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun dawn

Wednesday (’third day’)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 74

knee

Speaker: Maynard Henry

buttocks

Speaker: Maynard Henry

vein, tendon, nerve, plastic filament

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 338

adjective black

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective. evil, unscrupulous, immoral

Speaker: Mina Lekka

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