Kapingamarangi English

adj. brilliant (used only with the color red)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

earing

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. bluefin trevally

Scientific name: Caranx melampygus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. father

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

to pluck, earthworms, to shake water off

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. pot

defecate (shit)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. flatfish (flounder, halibut, etc)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

save

vi. octopus

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Shiver

basket

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

trumpet shell

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. pull; drag

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. red snapper

Example: Photo by Florida Fish and Wildlife Center April 3, 2012 via Flickr License: CC BY-ND 2.0

Scientific name: Lutjanus vaigiensis,
Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. spider lily

Example: Photo by angeliathatsme July 1, 2011 via Flickr License: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Scientific name: Crinum asiaticum,
Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. unable to stand (e.g. in high tide)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Peck

n. house post

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

roughness

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

school of surgeon fish

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. coconut husk

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. ladder

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. intestines

n. spadefish and batfish species

Scientific name: Chaetodipterus sp.,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vi. bathe

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

type of turtle

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

fish innards

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

disk-like sand particle

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

level ground

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. broad, open place

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. grass

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. midnight snapper; black and white snapper

Scientific name: Macolor macularis; Macolor niger,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. outrigger float connecting stanchion

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

loincloth; makeshift, to do or tie temporarily

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

to cool off by a breeze

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. think

vt. to feed workers

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

make the veins of the neck stick out (as when angry)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. to squint

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. amaze

vi. pout

vt. screaming periodically

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. always keeping someone company

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. be quiet

vt. form a crowd

vt. to stagger under a weight or when very sleepy

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. allow to ripen

vt. to approach circumspectly; gingerly

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

fish:white marlin

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

find

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. shooting star

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. skinny

phrase good evening

n. appendage; fin

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. flower of the Clerodendrum inerme

Example: Photo by Lauren Gutierrez February 4, 2012 via Flickr License: CC BY-ND 2.0

Scientific name: Clerodendrum inerme,
Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. tongue

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. hair not on the head

n. beard hair

n. mirror

lie (down)

boiled

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vi. heat up

n. board

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

plywood

drunk, get

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. a lure for trawling

vt. sizzle

n. red warrior ant

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. club used for beating fish

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. early (for an appt)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. short jawed bonefish

Scientific name: Albula glossodonta,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. starfish

Example: Photo by NOAA Photo Library September 24, 2010 via Flickr License: CC BY 2.0

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. starfish

Example: Photo by NOAA Photo Library September 24, 2010 via Flickr License: CC BY 2.0

Scientific name: Asteroidea sp.,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. embers

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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

vt. throb

kind

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

going any direction

n. bird

Example: Photo by tropical.pete September 28, 2007 via Flickr License: CC BY-SA 2.0

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

insect

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

an islet of Kapinga Atoll (uninhabited, reserved for use by fishermen only)

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

have breakfast

vi. urinate

n. tin roofing

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

louse, egg

vt. mumble

vomit

n. slipper lobster species

Scientific name: Scyllaridae sp.

n. chest

low tide

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. blue boxfish

Scientific name: Ostracion meleagris

n. ghost crab

Scientific name: Ocypodinae sp.,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

canoe part: float braces

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Skirt

an islet of Kapinga Atoll (one of only two that is inhabited)

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

sister-in-law

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

noun bark

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. rib cage

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,