Nukuoro English

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

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

noun 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

noun fish sp.

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 20

verb (intransitive) carve

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

verb pull

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun mother (formal)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 59

blood

Speaker: Maynard Henry

stilts; walk on stilts

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 64

verb allow one’s beard to grow

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 66

noun tool used to soften the pandanus leaf

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

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun apodous sea cucumber

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 70

noun taro plant

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 69

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

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 69

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

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 77

noun dry brown husk from the branches of the coconut palm

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

mucus

Speaker: Maynard Henry

noun plant species whose leaf is used for cooking

adjective dirty

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

sand

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 87

verb urinate

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

low wages, low-priced

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 199

verb hold an election

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 228

lung

Speaker: Maynard Henry

the flower of the coconut tree

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 247

rumor

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 265

adjective tall; long

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

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

Speaker: Ruth Rudolph

verb chew

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective cold

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

adjective frequently magalili

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 279

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

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 279

adjective beautiful

Speaker: Johnny Rudolph

adjective bald

Speaker: Mina Lekka

adjective balding

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun fish (generic term; children’s speech only)

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 285

starfish

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 288

noun sailing canoe

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

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

noun mother (formal)

Speaker: Mina Lekka

noun paternal grandmother

rain of a reddish color - an omen of death

Source: Vern & Soulik 1973, p. 338

noun vein or artery (blood vessel)

noun larger blood vessels

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

Speaker: Mina Lekka