Nukuoro English

noun door

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective easily capsizable

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 5

first light of the moon

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 5

noun evening

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun dawn

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

verb fish, hunt (during the day)

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun fingernail

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun log on which the pandanus leaf is smashed

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun state of anxiety (psychological condition)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 22

noun sow

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

adjective short

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun cage; fence

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb (transitive) carve (something)

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

verb raise (a flag)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

how

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun butterfly fish

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 57

noun mother (formal)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 59

very big giant

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 59

noun blood

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun labor pains (of women in childbirth)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 64

noun thorn

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun apodous sea cucumber

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 70

piece of taro cooked in a coconut shell with coconut oil

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 71

noun apodous sea cucumber

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 70

bosom/breast

Speaker: Maynard Henry

noun dry brown husk from the branches of the coconut palm

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

wasteful of food

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 81

mucus

Speaker: Maynard Henry

adjective yellow

Speaker: Mina Lekka

hip

Speaker: Maynard Henry

noun, preposition hip; beside

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun sand

Speaker: Maynard Henry

noun stone

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

adjective clean

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

verb act like or emulate Europeans

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 103

verb to make a child urinate

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 155

verb cause to be muscular

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 189

take special care of, cherish

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 189

verb do slowly, delay

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 190

verb bleeding profusely

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 229

verb breastfeed

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun bath house

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun second stage of a green coconut

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

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

adjective porous

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 97

adjective plenty; a lot, many

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

verb measure off in fathoms

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

adjective wide

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

overripe coconut apple

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

noun wrap skirt; sarong

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

childbirth

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 259

adjective becoming leu (ripe)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 259

adjective dexterous; quick

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun pinky finger

indecisive, undecided

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 264

verb measure off in fathoms

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 265

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

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 265

verb die

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb chew

Speaker: Mina Lekka

remain stationary in the air (like a bird or a helicopter)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 270

noun toenail

noun nipple

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective very old (persons), mature, full-grown; parent, elder (senior relative)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb, adjective feel cold, shivering (from cold); flow (of tide)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

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

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 279

adjective beautiful

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

adjective sweet

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

adjective stretchable

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective the sound of something being chewed

Speaker: MIna Lekka

noun animal (doesn’t include people)

mantis shrimp

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 287

adjective broken up (into many pieces or groupings)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 288

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

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 290

noun stage between a young green coconut and a mature brown coconut

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

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun muscle

airplane

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 298

adjective slow moving (while working), slow acting, slow thinking

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun first stage of a green coconut; youngest coconut; type of huaamee

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

verb whisper

Speaker: Mina Lekka

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

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun hair (on the head)

pagan gods, idols

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 308

verb repeatedly nounu

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb to put an infant to sleep by singing a lullaby

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun rolls of softened pandanus leaf

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

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb to be continually walked upon

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 319

noun coins

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective slippery

Speaker: Mina Lekka

striped (with thin lines)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 330

orphaned

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

verb to grow fast or well anywhere (e.g., as a weed)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun shoe

Speaker: Mina Lekka

infant

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 72

noun teacher

Speaker: Mina Lekka

secretary

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 73

noun maternal grandmother

crave (for food)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 338

noun capillary

adjective small (for a vast plural noun; used with dengaa)

a dirty song

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 347

verb to clear land (or a path, etc.) of weeds and underbrush

Speaker: Mina Lekka