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 | Uli | Dark in colour |
Nukuoro | Ulu | Level an area |
Nukuoro | Ulu | Topmost part |
Nukuoro | -(o)luu | Second person dual possessive suffix |
Nukuoro | Ulua | Fish sp |
Nukuoro | Ulungaa iga (mamu) | A pair of copulating fish (or turtles, or whales, or stingrays) |
Nukuoro | Ulunga | Pillow, lie with one's head on a pillow |
Nukuoro | Ulungi | Steer v |
Nukuoro | Ulu-dugi | Hawkfish |
Nukuoro | Uma | Chestbone of bird (used as tool) |
Nukuoro | Umada | Rainbow |
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 | Usu | Nose |
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 |