Kapingamarangi English

n. foam

adj. brilliant (used only with the color red)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. windy

n. floor (house)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

to pluck, earthworms, to shake water off

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. flatfish (flounder, halibut, etc)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

grown soft

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. mahi mahi or common dolphinfish

Scientific name: Coryphaena hippurus

n. scallop

vt. embrace

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. sorcerize

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. hew

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

ai. broad space

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. to worry about

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. unsuccessful

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. too small, misfitted

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

which one

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Peck

n. boxing or fighting

n. zenith

sweep

roughness

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. sand spit

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. ladder

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

cloudy

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

to laugh at

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

thin cloth

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. intestines

soft meat of green cocount

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

copra dried in the wind

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v. wash self

n. soil

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. smoked fish

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. filthy, disgusted (with smelly objects like feces)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. outrigger float connecting stanchion

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

to feel about in the dark, to grope

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. to limp

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. distort

vt. always reluctant

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. use sparingly

greedy

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. amaze

vt. keep conversing

vt. try to make (something) stand up

vt. screaming periodically

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. always keeping someone company

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. form a crowd

vt. to approach circumspectly; gingerly

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. move with the extremeties spread out

fish:white marlin

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Wag (a tail)

n. bath house

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

canoe part: float connectives

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

phrase good evening

n. sennit

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. beard hair

n. armpit hair

bark (dog)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

lie (down)

n. sea green wrasse; dragon wrasse

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

n. thorn branch

plywood

Run

drunk, get

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. a lure for trawling

n. wide-band fusilier

Scientific name: Pterocaesio lativittata,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. nipple of breasts

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. club used for beating fish

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. six-blotch hind

Scientific name: Cephalopholis sexmaculata,
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. hurricane lantern

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

dull

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

going any direction

n. convict tang

Scientific name: Acanthurus triostegus

insect

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

phrase a triple hook

n. frying pan

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. brain

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

n. eyeball

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. tin roof

To chew or masticate

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v. crumple

n. gust of wind

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

breadfruit pancake, grilled on a fire

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

bang bang

n. gold-lined sea bream

Scientific name: Gnathodentex aurolineatus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

second coconut stage; small green coconut

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. blue boxfish

Scientific name: Ostracion meleagris

n. three pointed fishing spear

n. ghost crab

Scientific name: Ocypodinae sp.,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. hungry whine

name of coral head in Kapinga lagoon

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

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

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. place name: heavily populated central islet

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

sister-in-law

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. post supporting a house

n. mollusk sp.

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