Entries from Carroll & Soulik 1973 in Pollex-Online
Carroll, V. and T. Soulik (1973). Nukuoro Lexicon. Honolulu, University Press of Hawaii.
Language | Item | Description |
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Nukuoro | Dia/dia | Make a cover by plaiting/lashing round |
Nukuoro | Diha | Move something by using a lever Problematic |
Nukuoro | Dihidihi | Butterfly fish |
Nukuoro | Dili | Shoot at |
Nukuoro | Dili | A steady stroke, as of an adze |
Nukuoro | Haga/dili | Produce offspring |
Nukuoro | Dilo | Look at, inspect |
Nukuoro | Dinae | Belly |
Nukuoro | Diinei | To extinguish (e.g. a fire, or the life of a plant, or the heat of the sun -- as by clouds) |
Nukuoro | Dinana | Mother, dam |
Nukuoro | Dinihu | Industrious, hard-working |
Nukuoro | Dino | Share of, portion Problematic |
Nukuoro | Dino | Numeral classifier (by tens) for persons |
Nukuoro | Diba | Not level, tipped to one side |
Nukuoro | Didi | Grass skirt of hibiscus fibre or palm leaves |
Nukuoro | Doo | Plant (something) |
Nukuoro | Doo | Get down, get off; fall; drop down |
Nukuoro | Doo | Your |
Nukuoro | Doo | Take up string figure |
Nukuoro | Doa | Giant |
Nukuoro | Doe | Left over, remain |
Nukuoro | Doha | To spread out |
Nukuoro | Dohe | Bivalve mollusc sp. |
Nukuoro | Dohi/dohi | Divide up |
Nukuoro | Dohu | Sufficient, enough; able to cover a given area |
Nukuoro | Doonga | Tools, equipment (including fishing gear) |
Nukuoro | Dongi/dongi | Spotted (covered with spots) |
Nukuoro | Dongi | Peck |
Nukuoro | Donga | Oriental mangrove (Bruguiera gymnorhiza) |
Nukuoro | Doi | Sap of hardwood species from which perfume is made |
Nukuoro | Doi | Stain (permanent); any of a number of hardwood saps, found in driftwood, from which perfume is made |
Nukuoro | Doga | Coral formation |
Nukuoro | Doga | Land on (as a bird lands on the branch of a tree) |
Nukuoro | Doga/a | Bashful, shy, ashamed, embarrassed |
Nukuoro | Dogi | Adze |
Nukuoro | Dogo | To punt (propel a canoe by poling), punt pole |
Nukuoro | Dogo- | Numeral classifier for person |
Nukuoro | Leia /togo mouli | Hiccough |
Nukuoro | Dogoduli | Crouch on all fours |
Nukuoro | Dola | Erection (of penis) |
Nukuoro | Doli | Obtain as many as one can |
Nukuoro | Dolo | Creep (very slow movement over ground) |
Nukuoro | Dolo | Sugarcane |
Nukuoro | Dolu. Tolu, toru (Crn). | Three |
Nukuoro | Dona | Wart, mole |
Nukuoro | Donu | Real, really; understand; truth, right, correct |
Nukuoro | Donu | Fish species, sea bass |
Nukuoro | Dohi | Strip dilo to make plaited hats Problematic |
Nukuoro | Dodo | Blood |
Nukuoro | Dotodo | Bloody (of person) |