Entries from Carroll & Soulik 1973 in Pollex-Online

Carroll, V. and T. Soulik (1973). Nukuoro Lexicon. Honolulu, University Press of Hawaii.

Language Item Description
Nukuoro Umidi Hungry for fish or meat
Nukuoro Umu Oven, cookhouse
Nukuoro Unahi Fish scale
Nukuoro Unu/si Pull out
Nukuoro Unu Drink
Nukuoro Ubu The shell of the coconut; kneecap
Nukuoro Haga/usi/ Darkening (of clouds)
Nukuoro Uso Umbilical cord
Nukuoro Usu Push
Nukuoro Uta board a ship/canoe
Nukuoro Uda Inland, land above high water
Nukuoro Udo Soft wood round centre of tree trunk
Nukuoro Udo Soft wood around centre of tree trunk
Nukuoro -(o)dou Second person plural possessive suffix
Nukuoro Udu Aprion virescens; fish sp., snapper
Nukuoro Udua Promontary, peninsula
Nukuoro Vaa To make noise (in a group)
Nukuoro Vae Foot (including leg)
Nukuoro Vaelo A long, thin appendage (e.g. barbel or streamer rays of a fish)
Nukuoro Vae Separate, Divide
Nukuoro Vaenga Portion, share, division, district; cubit (? arm’s length measure)
Nukuoro Vai Water, liquid
Nukuoro Vaigeli Well (for water in ground)
Nukuoro Vaiuu Milk
Nukuoro Vaivai Watery
Nukuoro Vaga Big ship/Canoe
Nukuoro Haga/vagavaga Punishment of a person by confinement (without food or drink) until his death Problematic
Nukuoro Valaai Medicine Problematic
Nukuoro Vale mold (fungus), any slippery jelly-like substance
Nukuoro Sau/valo/valo Echo
Nukuoro Valo Mollusc sp. (Pinnidae spp.)
Nukuoro Valovalo (Premna obtusifolia)
Nukuoro Valu. Varu (Crn). Eight
Nukuoro Valu Large dangu fish
Nukuoro Valu Scrape
Nukuoro Vaalanga Made up (of story)
Nukuoro Vao Wilderness, uninhabited place
Nukuoro Vela Burned
Nukuoro Vele Weed, clear bush, pluck
Nukuoro Veli Sea-urchin
Nukuoro Velo Stab, spear
Nukuoro V/vede/ Massage Problematic
Nukuoro Vede Goatfish
Nukuoro Vvela Hot (of an object)
Nukuoro Vii Fermented, spoiled of food left too long
Nukuoro Vili Do rapidly (Crl)
Nukuoro Vili Do rapidly.
Nukuoro Gumi A measurement by tens of fathoms
Nukuoro Aa- Future time prefix
Nukuoro Ui Go past a certain point in time or place