Nukuoro English

first light of the moon

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 5

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

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun taro fibers

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 7

noun dawn

Speaker: Maynard Henry

noun iron (a piece of)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 9

noun throat (of fish only)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 10

noun the physical desire of a member of the opposite sex

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 12

toenail

Speaker: Maynard Henry

flat

Speaker: Mina Lekka

clap hands

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 14

noun fish sp., squirrelfish

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 17

adjective soft

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun state of anxiety (psychological condition)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 22

verb (transitive) carve (something)

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun sweat

Speaker: Maynard Henry

verb (intransitive) carve

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun third stage of a green coconut

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

verb pull

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb raise (a flag)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun roof

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective unstable; rocking, as a boat

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

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

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 69

have diarrhea

verb have itch

noun itch

the grains in the trunk of wood of the coconut tree which are hard, dark, and sharp

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 82

adjective dirty

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun dark images, shadows in the darkness

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 93

chin

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

verb a shrugging movement of the shoulders

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 140

verb make many thousands

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 181

low wages, low-priced

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 199

verb urinate (piss)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

a sky covered with rain clouds

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 221

verb sexual intercourse; fornication

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun flatfish

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 232

lung

Speaker: Maynard Henry

eyebrow

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

the flower of the coconut tree

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 247

noun April

Speaker: Mina Lekka

rib

Speaker: Maynard Henry

noun rib

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 251

adjective porous

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 97

a type of basket

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

noun serving dish basket made from coconut palm

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

adjective easily angered, short tempered

Speaker: Mina Lekka

good at massaging

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 261

indecisive, undecided

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 264

verb measure off in fathoms

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 265

a love potion (applied to the clothes or body)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 265

a type of medicine made from coconut oil and centipedes

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 265

to repeatedly use a breadfruit picker; pull (a trigger)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 266

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

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 270

noun tool used to grate coconuts

noun fifty dollar bill

Speaker: Mina Lekka

half-cooked

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 276

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

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective cold

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

adjective beautiful

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

adjective sweet

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

adjective bald

Speaker: Mina Lekka

lizard fish

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 284

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

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 284

noun fish sp.: goatfish

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 284

verb becoming more and more calm (of weather)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 284

adjective turned this way and that way, turned over and over

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 285

mantis shrimp

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 287

noun small red insect that sucks blood

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

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 297

noun airplane

hair

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

lie (tell a falsehood)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 312

verb chew, masticate (foods that make noise)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb to put an infant to sleep by singing a lullaby

Speaker: Mina Lekka

a phosphorescent flash in the water

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 318

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

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 319

verb to be continually walked upon

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 319

verb perspire

Speaker: Mina Lekka

lion-fish

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 323

verb walk

a fine jet of water

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 328

spray

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 328

verb to wave back and forth (as a coconut tree in the wind)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun plant species with white fragrant flowers

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

Speaker: Mina Lekka

mollusk, sp. Neritidae

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 329

striped (with thin lines)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 330

noun paternal uncle

noun maternal grandfather

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

noun teacher

Speaker: Mina Lekka

industrious person

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 73

secretary

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 73

noun maternal grandmother

noun paternal grandmother

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

noun sea cucumber

Speaker: Mina Lekka

rain of a reddish color - an omen of death

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 338

nurse (at the breast)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 343

adjective. evil, unscrupulous, immoral

Speaker: Mina Lekka

verb to put an infant to sleep by singing a lullaby

Speaker: Mina Lekka