Kapingamarangi English

n. white and purple flower plant

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. white biblical dove

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

blood clot

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

father-in-law

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. blue sky

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

maternal grandfather

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

paternal grandfather

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. flatfish (flounder, halibut, etc)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

grown soft

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. basket made with coconut leaves with carrying handle

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

save

basket for serving portions at a feast

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. rabbitfish species

Scientific name: Siganus sp.,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

bulging or hilly

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

mollusk (nerita polida)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. confused, be

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. young

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. box

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. to worry about

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. unsuccessful

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. unable to, not up to the task

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. too small, misfitted

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. forgetful, absent-minded

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

phrase What’s your name?

barb of a stingray used to pierce ears

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. to kindle (a fire or lantern)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

roughness

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

tired

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. whimbrel

Scientific name: Numenius phaeopus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. young children

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

soft meat of green cocount

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

place having many depressions (e.g., corrugated surface)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. plant

Example: Photo by Forest and Kim Starr February 12, 2001 via Flickr License: CC BY 2.0

Scientific name: Fimbristylis cymosa,
Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

bunch of drinking coconuts

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. mud

school of red snapper

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

chest

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

vt. cause to repeatedly have free time

to cool off by a breeze

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. make up your minds

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. be similar

vt. to feed workers

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

greedy

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. to show

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. get drunk

vt. keep conversing

vt. screaming periodically

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. tidy, to keep clean

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. form a crowd

vt. to dry out under sunshine (by hanging)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

it doesn’t matter which

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

to accumulate school of fish by feeding them, to attract by baiting

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

help

vt. move with the extremeties spread out

fish:white marlin

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

shark’s first dorsal fin

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

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,

near

Bark

Obliterate

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

bark (dog)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vt. spreading the news, gossip

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. mirror

boiled

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vi. heat up

n. board

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Musky smell of sex

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

long

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. red warrior ant

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

v. To meander or to look around

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. mimic octopus and similar species

Scientific name: Thaumoctopus mimicus

have fever

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

n. open area around the house

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. throb

n. convict tang

Scientific name: Acanthurus triostegus

fan

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. rectum

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. egg

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

n. zero

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

To chew or masticate

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. mumble

v. mutter

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. maternal grandmother

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. paternal grandmother

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. gust of wind

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

breadfruit pancake, grilled on a fire

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

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

n. chest

n. three pointed fishing spear

n. black-banded snapper

Scientific name: Lutjanus semicinctus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. double lined mackerel

Scientific name: Grammatorcynos bilineatus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

happy

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

v. to hit

n. place name: heavily populated central islet

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

sister

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. mollusk sp.

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

shouting