Nukuoro English

it was today that

Contributor: Vern & Soulik 1973

noun fishing lure of pearl shell, used in galele fishing

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noun hanging basket made from coconut palm

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

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

adjective speak in riddles or aphoristically or in parables

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verb choppy seas

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verb be very nervous, be very anxious

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noun fish sp.: scad

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adjective more-or-less close to

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adjective ejaculate repeatedly

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adjective cowardly (owing to weak-mindedness); afraid to assert oneself; not live up to one’s obligations

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verb unscheduled,unplanned

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noun sibling (mostly children’s talk)

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noun second stage of a green coconut; type of huaamee

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

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

the stage of development of the coconut between daahaa mada makaga and modomodo

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verb pull

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective to reach many places

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adjective have reached many places

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verb scoop out by inserting a knife between the meat and the shell (e.g., in cutting copra)

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verb an extensive infection of dane

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adjective to tie at the end of a short tether

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adjective short (in duration)

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adjective only,alone (just one)

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good evening

noun the youngest child of a couple

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adjective having a tendency to be dogaa

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adjective becoming fewer and fewer

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verb move from place to place; crawl

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

adjective stilts,walk on stilts

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adjective to appear in the distance as a row of small objects (like adjacent islets on the atoll)

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noun refrain (of song)

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noun seaweedsp.

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know something about

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noun early evening,late in the afternoon

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adjective continually wanting to eat

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verb having many depressions (e.g., a corrugated surface)

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a game played by children

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chin

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

verb provide or receive support continually

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verb cause to be convinced

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verb cause to be expanded

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verb play music; make someone keep crying

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verb rock back and forth to one side

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verb behave like a baby

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verb to use the word kolili

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verb urinate

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

adjective cringe to deceive one’s opponent into thinking one is afraid (when one is not)

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verb

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noun fishsp. (= large llahi)

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noun wheel

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noun mouth odor

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adjective cloying insincere humility

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adjective little bit,few

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noun a canoe paddle (for paddling)

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noun noon; the whole day; a certain day only

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time noun the tenth number of a counting game played to determine who is "it" (= the person who becomes "it")

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the flower of the coconut tree

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adjective fat and squat and ugly

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verb to clap one’s wet hands together (to dry them)

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noun hideous in appearance (as a ghost)

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noun way of plaiting

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noun eelsp.

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verb warm oneself by the fire

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a type of basket

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

noun wrap skirt; sarong

a sarong of material with a flowered pattern

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adjective becoming leu (ripe)

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pull the trigger (of a gun)

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trembling

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verb to shake (something) rapidly

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a person of importance (who is liked by the people)

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noun male child

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feel sleepy

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

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adjective to despair (of attaining success)

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adjective cracked in many places

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adjective

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adjective easily made malili; to feel the nibbling of fish on a fishing line

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adjective cool

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noun flying insect

noun millipede

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noun serpentcucumber

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adjective good at fighting

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noun a toy (made from a dried breadfruit leaf or a disk of coconut shell) which slides when thrown

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adjective walk stealthily in a crouch

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verb to take up slack in a line with hitches in order to maintain tension on something being hauled

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adjective a distribution of the catch of a communal fishing expedition

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noun paddling canoe

noun airplane

verb easily bent (impermanently)

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lie (tell a falsehood)

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verb to say dirty words to someone

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noun a type of string figure

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adjective the noise of an explosion or collision<= same meaning as salulu>

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adjective becoming ssano

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verb write

verb striped (with thin lines)

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verb longhand (writing)

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a young breadfruit tree

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not homogenous or smooth (as lumpy dough, or the grated surface of taro)

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noun sea cucumber

Speaker: Mina Lekka