Kapingamarangi English

adj. brilliant (used only with the color red)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. white and purple flower plant

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

paternal grandfather

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

to pluck, earthworms, to shake water off

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

save

vi. octopus

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

basket

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

v.phrase to go spearfishing

n. eldest child

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. young

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. teacher

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. box

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. to worry about

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. always late

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. to misunderstand, not able to understand

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. unsuccessful

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. unable to, not up to the task

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. stuffed full

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. boxing or fighting

sweep

n. house post

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

roughness

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. ladder

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

laugh

copra dried in the wind

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v. wash self

n. green sea turtle

Example: Photo by prilfish July 20, 2011 via Flickr License: CC BY 2.0

Scientific name: Chelonia mydas,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. soil

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. hives

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

phrase we eat together for dinner

level ground

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

disgusting place

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. grass

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

bunch of drinking coconuts

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

reef flat

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

school of red snapper

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

chest

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

snore

vt. rock back and forth

vt. to purposely sink or submerge (and leave submerged for some time)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. screaming periodically

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

at. to tangle up

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. form a crowd

vt. to approach circumspectly; gingerly

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

school of flying fish

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. manta ray

Scientific name: Manta alfredi,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. lionfish in general; red lionfish

Scientific name: Pterois volitans,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

an islet of Kapinga Atoll (uninhabited)

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

phrase good evening

n. sennit

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,

very near

n. blacktip reef shark

Scientific name: Carcharhinus melanopterus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Bark

both

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. rib

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. carrying

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. sponge

boiled

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. olive-scribbled wrasse

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. sea green wrasse; dragon wrasse

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

n. flame

escape

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

drunk, get

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Musky smell of sex

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. red warrior ant

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

name of coral head in Kapinga lagoon

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. club used for beating fish

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v. To meander or to look around

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

cold

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. mimic octopus and similar species

Scientific name: Thaumoctopus mimicus

n. starfish

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

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. throb

worm

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

insect

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

phrase a double hook

phrase a triple hook

fan

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

eat

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. rectum

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v. crumple

sit down

n a fruit salad made of breadfruit and soursop, mixed with sugar or coconut juice, eaten raw not cooked

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

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. black-banded snapper

Scientific name: Lutjanus semicinctus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. double lined mackerel

Scientific name: Grammatorcynos bilineatus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

name of coral head in Kapinga lagoon

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

sister

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. long line for bottom fishing

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. mollusk sp.

Scientific name: Nerita picea,
Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

burned

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

noun bark

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. rib cage

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,