Nukuoro English

noun group of islands

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun taro fibers

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 7

noun lagoon

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 8

noun generation, age set

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 6

adjective weak

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun bag

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun long boat-like basket made from coconut palm

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun boat

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun Indian mulberry tree; Morinda citrifolia L.

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Mina Lekka

ten dollar bill

noun ritual activites, religious activities

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 40

verb fish, hunt (at night)

verb unfasten, undo, untie

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun people

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

pronoun your (singular; for singular, alienable noun)

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

never

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun bride

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

number three hundred

pronoun your (singular; for singular, inalienable noun)

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

a joking expression; literally, ’your liver!’

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 63

pronoun your (plural; for singular noun)

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun violence; a type of rope

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 65

noun hard middle ridge of the coconut palm leaf

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun grandmothers

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

verb burn (transitive)

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

sea cucumber species

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 71

half of an unripe coconut; buttock

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 71

sea cucumber species

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 71

noun ladder

Speaker: Mina Lekka

native food (not imported)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 81

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Mina Lekka

mullet

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 84

skin

Speaker: Maynard Henry

noun wrist

noun a method of fishing (with a line on the reef)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 101

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

noun volcanic stone from Pohnpei used to pound sakau

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

verb prepared, be

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb restrict

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 122

verb be blind

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

verb treat as having supernatural power

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 130

verb walk with a limp (permanently)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 131

noun sleeping mat

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

verb cause to drink alcoholic beverages

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 150

verb to slacken the boom sheet (of a sailing canoe).

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 165

take special care of, cherish

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 189

verb masturbate

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 231

adjective pregnant

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun hole

Speaker: Maynard Henry

noun chest (body part)

verb sing a song

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun a fleet of canoes

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 245

verb open (transitive)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

Mortlock Islands

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 248

at night

Speaker: Mina Lekka

wait!

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 96

noun day after tomorrow

Speaker: Mina Lekka

becoming stormy (of the sea)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 255

the posterior portion of the hermit crab

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 256

noun the fatty tissue of a fish or animal

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 258

noun lime

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

childbirth

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 259

noun little finger

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

hundred thousands

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb measure off in fathoms

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 265

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

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

verb die (plural subj.)

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

adjective small

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

number fourteen

verb look at in an effort to identify or recognize

Speaker: Mina Lekka

powerful

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb open (intransitive, sing.)

Example: De abaaba gu mahuge. (The door is open.)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

fast

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective delicious (general)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

jellyfish-like animal in the shape of a flower that burrows into the sand when touched

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 288

a suspicion which proves to be true

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 288

noun thing

bedclothes, bedding; a place for sleeping

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 297

hair

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

brain

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

increase

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 309

adjective filthy with food (i.e., hands after eating)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb sit

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun eye region (including eyes, eyelids, eyebrows)

noun pipe

noun rolls of softened pandanus leaf

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

Speaker: Mina Lekka

flying fish

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 320

fornicate, have sexual intercourse

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun sister

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun brother

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

the sort of person who feels at home everywhere and is continually visiting (considered uncouth)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 72

magician, sorcerer

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 73

noun waist

Speaker: Mina Lekka

back

Speaker: Maynard Henry

turtle ribs, used as knives in rituals

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 340

adjective hungry for fish or meat

Speaker: Mina Lekka

apprehensive, nervous, anxious (in social contexts)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 348

noun garden

Speaker: Mina Lekka

catterbox, a person who speaks fast

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 350