Nukuoro English

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

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun one’s first spouse

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 6

noun fire

Speaker: Maynard Henry

good evening

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun mollusk sp., spider conch

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 13

toenail

Speaker: Maynard Henry

noun dead body

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

flat

Speaker: Mina Lekka

clap hands

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 14

noun rain

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 19

adjective ugly

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun state of anxiety (psychological condition)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 22

noun the light just before daybreak

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 25

noun sweat

Speaker: Maynard Henry

verb raise (a flag)

good evening

blood

Speaker: Maynard Henry

hide and seek (game)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 71

noun apodous sea cucumber

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 70

a diving plaform made from a tree stuck in a coral head

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 69

noun breast

bosom/breast

Speaker: Maynard Henry

shore

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 79

noun itch

noun, preposition hip; beside

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

giggle

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 89

noun stone

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

horizon

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 90

a game played by children

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 91

dark images, shadows in the darkness

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 93

chin

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

the connecting pegs of the outrigger float

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 99

improving

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 123

make many thousands

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 181

take special care of, cherish

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 189

do slowly, delay

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 190

bleeding profusely

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 229

an avoidance relationship between kin

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 230

verb sexual intercourse; fornication

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

verb breastfeed

bath house

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun chest (body part)

lung

Speaker: Maynard Henry

noun nest

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun hive, nest

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun first stage of a green coconut; youngest coconut

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

flood-like waves on the reef; tidal wave

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 245

the flower of the coconut tree

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 247

sorcery (made with chants)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 248

collar bone

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 251

adjective wide

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

hundreds and hundreds

Speaker: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 257

overripe coconut apple

Speaker: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 257

noun wrap skirt; sarong

noun skirt; sewn skirt

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

childbirth

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 259

adjective becoming leu (ripe)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 259

adjective mad at, angry

Speaker: Mina Lekka

thumb

Speaker: Maynard Henry

noun pinky finger

adjective tall; long

to pick up information by asking others, who have lied (so that one’s information is false)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 265

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

noun tool used to grate coconuts

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

adjective smooth

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

adjective stretchable

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective sharp (esp something which causes sharp pain like a whip)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 284

adjective scattered

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective cold (referring to temperature of something)

Source: Mina Lekka

mantis shrimp

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 287

noun insect sp.

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun burned (food)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 290

noun fan

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

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb to sift; rub between fingers

a cold underwater current

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 295

noun muscle

verb walk stealthily in a crouch

Speaker: Mina Lekka

damselfish

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 300

verb tickle; to catch an octopus by tickling it (to dislodge it from its hole)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun spider

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

pagan gods, idols

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 308

walk barefoot, stroll

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 309

adjective repeatedly ngavali (as a diving board in use)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 311

lie (tell a falsehood)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 312

verb to wander around continually (from past time to the present)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 319

verb bleed

Speaker: Mina Lekka

say bad things about one to one’s face

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 327

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

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

Speaker: Mina Lekka

mollusk, sp. Neritidae

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 329

to cut copra

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 330

become wet

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 335

wrasse (fish)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 337

noun paternal uncle

noun ball woven from coconut palm, used for sport

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

noun mother-in-law

noun paternal grandmother

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

noun maternal grandmother

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

buttocks

Speaker: Maynard Henry

adjective watery, bad - (when followed by another word)

Speaker: Mina Lekka