Kapingamarangi English

n. fence, wall of a house

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. brilliant (used only with the color red)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

phrase I want to

n. floor (house)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. blue sky

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

to pluck, earthworms, to shake water off

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

grown soft

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. basket made with coconut leaves with carrying handle

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

save

trumpet shell

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

ai. broad space

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. pull; drag

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. confused, be

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

to gossip about someone

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. always late

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. never flies (e.g. a kite)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. never enough

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. unceasingly, always

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. too small, misfitted

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

trawling

adj. knotty (wood), having many bumps (of a tree)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. kindle (fire)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. house post

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

roughness

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. intestines

n. young children

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

soft meat of green cocount

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

fish innards

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

noun sand

Example: Photo by Matt Kiefer October 6, 2006 via Flickr License: CC BY-SA 2.0

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

white sand

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. soil

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v. be somewhat fast

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

school of red snapper

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

noun mud

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. outrigger float connecting stanchion

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

to feel about in the dark, to grope

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

think

set on fire

loincloth; makeshift, to do or tie temporarily

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. cause to sink, accidentally or temporarily

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. to measure out, allot

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. think

greedy

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. add more coconut meat

boundary of taro plot

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. to squint

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. keep conversing

vt. seat (someone)

vt. always keeping someone company

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. allow to ripen

vt. to approach circumspectly; gingerly

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. to sear (e.g., meat)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

fish:white marlin

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. manta ray

Scientific name: Manta alfredi,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Wag (a tail)

n. outhouse

Example: Photo by Joel Abroad September 29, 2007 via Flickr License: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

carving/scraping noise

n. blacktip reef shark

Scientific name: Carcharhinus melanopterus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. hair not on the head

Obliterate

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

both

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vt. spreading the news, gossip

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

boiled

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. olive-scribbled wrasse

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

roasted

n. board

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

plywood

v. speak

Run

n. a lure for trawling

n. perfume

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

long

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

v. To meander or to look around

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. open area around the house

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. embers

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. hurricane lantern

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. weigh (on a scale); seek by divination

first

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

fan

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. toy

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n flute, whistle

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

n. a fiber of coconut husk

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. rectum

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. old or worn out sarong, rag

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. tin roofing

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. tin roof

vt. mumble

n. a knot that unties when pulled

v. crumple

n. gust of wind

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

clam shell, used for ornament or for scraping off burned outer shell of cooked breadfruit

Example: Photo by genjitsu / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Asaphis violascens,
Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

bang bang

v. to pound

n. slipper lobster species

Scientific name: Scyllaridae sp.

n. chest

low tide

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. blue boxfish

Scientific name: Ostracion meleagris

n. black-banded snapper

Scientific name: Lutjanus semicinctus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Skirt

sister

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich