Nukuoro English

noun door

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective easily capsizable

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 5

dawn

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

good evening

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun false labor pains (of a pregnant woman)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 9

noun iron (a piece of)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 9

noun body

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 13

flat

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun fish sp., parrot fish

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 19

adjective bad

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun sibling (mostly children’s talk)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 33

noun second stage of a green coconut; type of huaamee

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun dollar bill

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun priest

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

good evening

grass skirt

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun tool used to mash food

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

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun butt

noun apodous sea cucumber

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 70

noun butt

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

copra dried in the wind (not in the sun or in an oven)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 77

bosom/breast

Speaker: Maynard Henry

noun breast, bosom

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

shore

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 79

verb have itch

bird species

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 83

adjective yellow

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective dirty

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun sand

Speaker: Maynard Henry

sand

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 87

chin

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

chest

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

act like or emulate Europeans

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 103

critical of others

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 104

cause to have skin disease

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 143

cause to have lice (by transfer)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 145

to make a chil urinate

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 155

adjective mean; inconsiderate

Source: Johnny Rudolph

a sky covered with rain clouds

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 221

adjective muscular

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

verb breastfeed

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun chest (body part)

eyebrow

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

noun first stage of a green coconut; youngest coconut

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

the flower of the coconut tree

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 247

the flower of the coconut tree

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 247

collar bone

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 251

adjective plenty; a lot, many

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

overripe coconut apple

Speaker: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 257

a canoe used to transport food to a feast

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 257

noun wrap skirt; sarong

a love potion (applied to the clothes or body)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 265

rumor

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 265

pick up information from others’ conversation

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 265

trembling

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 266

noun fifty dollar bill

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective very old (person); elder

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

adjective smooth

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun small bits of things (e.g. sawdust)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun crack (of a whip)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 284

adjective scattered

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective to feel the nibbling of fish on a fishing line

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 284

adjective cold (referring to temperature of something)

Source: Mina Lekka

adjective delicious (general)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective the sound of something being chewed

Speaker: MIna Lekka

adjective the sound of something being chewed

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 288

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

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 290

the way in which a current moves about

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 293

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

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

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun paddling canoe

airplane

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 298

balls of grated taro (for making huaahuu)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 298

a name children tease each other with

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 299

verb easily mounu

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 299

verb whisper

Speaker: Mina Lekka

hair

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

walk barefoot, stroll

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 309

adjective long since finished, done or gone; long since, a long time ago

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun an overindulgence in fatty foods, leading to a loss of appetite

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 315

adjective Yes! Yes!

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 317

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

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 319

verb to wander around continually (doing so at present and likely to be doing so in the future)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 319

lion-fish

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 323

noun coins

Speaker: Mina Lekka

look for girls

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 325

verb having white hair

Speaker: Mina Lekka

striped (with thin lines)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 330

alone

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

orphaned

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

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

Speaker: Mina Lekka

sand

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 335

wrasse (fish)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 337

pupil of the eye; a cry of a bird or human that sounds like the cry of a baby; the name of a ghost

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 72

noun mother-in-law

Speaker: Kurt Erwin

noun vein or artery (blood vessel)

adjective black

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective. evil, unscrupulous, immoral

Speaker: Mina Lekka

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

Speaker: Mina Lekka