Kapingamarangi English

adj. brilliant (used only with the color red)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

phrase I want to

phrase I am supposed to be a high school student

n. father

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. white-edged lyretail; yellow-edged lyretail

Scientific name: Aetobatus narinari; Variola louti,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

maternal grandfather

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. flatfish (flounder, halibut, etc)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

grown soft

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. octopus

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

rough play, rough-and-tumble

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. dumb

n. rabbitfish species

Scientific name: Siganus sp.,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Goodbye

ai. broad space

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. confused, be

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

to gossip about someone

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. hard working man, especially a fisherman

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

kill

n. sorcerer

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. blind

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. unable to, not up to the task

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

angelfish species

Scientific name: Pomacanthidae sp.

natural mother

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

roughness

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

soft meat of green cocount

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

wash hair

tentacles of an octopus

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. coral pebbles

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. broad, open place

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

disgusting place

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. smoked fish

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v. be somewhat fast

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

to feel about in the dark, to grope

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

chest

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

think

vi. stumble

vi. be similar

boundary of taro plot

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. to show

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. get drunk

vt. try to make (something) stand up

ai. swelling periodically

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. screaming periodically

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

ai. withered

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

mother and daughter relation, a mother and her children

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

name of coral head in Kapinga lagoon

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vt. allow to ripen

v. be fast

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vt. lengthen

to Mash

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

help

vt. move with the extremeties spread out

school of flying fish

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. manta ray

Scientific name: Manta alfredi,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Wag (a tail)

v. hurry

find

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. lionfish in general; red lionfish

Scientific name: Pterois volitans,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. shooting star

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

very near

n. blacktip reef shark

Scientific name: Carcharhinus melanopterus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. beard hair

Obliterate

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

bark (dog)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vt. carrying

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. mirror

Stick used for pushing the boat out

n. sea green wrasse; dragon wrasse

Scientific name: Novaculichthys macrolepidotus; Novaculichthys taeniourus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vt. sizzle

v. shake

name of coral head in Kapinga lagoon

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. nipple of breasts

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v. To meander or to look around

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. embers

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

dull

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vt. throb

first

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

phrase a double hook

n flute, whistle

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

eat

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. old or worn out sarong, rag

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. tin roofing

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. egg

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

n. eyeball

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. longnosed emperor

Scientific name: Lethrinus olivaceus

v. mutter

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

low tide

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. blue boxfish

Scientific name: Ostracion meleagris

n. hungry whine

canoe part: float braces

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

famine

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. double lined mackerel

Scientific name: Grammatorcynos bilineatus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. kawakawa tuna or mackerel tuna

Scientific name: Euthynnus affinis,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

personal name of a Kapinga man who lived in the first half of the 20th century.

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

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

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

elder sister

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. rib cage

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,