Kapingamarangi English

bottom fishing

blood clot

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. father

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. blue sky

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. flatfish (flounder, halibut, etc)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. basket made with coconut leaves with carrying handle

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. mahi mahi or common dolphinfish

Scientific name: Coryphaena hippurus

n. octopi in general

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

trumpet shell

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. hew

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v.phrase to go spearfishing

vt. pull; drag

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,

cough

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

vt. pray

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. young

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. teacher

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. to misunderstand, not able to understand

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. blind

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

angelfish species

Scientific name: Pomacanthidae sp.

n. mother

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

phrase What’s your name?

barb of a stingray used to pierce ears

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. sister

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

roughness

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. ladder, stairway

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

cloudy

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vt. climb

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

copra dried in the wind

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

wash hair

wash someone

phrase we roast a fish

phrase we eat together for dinner

level ground

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. playground

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,

reef flat

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. throwing net

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

school of red snapper

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. to limp

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. limestrone strae below soil

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

loincloth; makeshift, to do or tie temporarily

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. cause to sink, accidentally or temporarily

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. drive a school of fish

vt. make up your minds

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

greedy

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. pout

vt. try to make (something) stand up

vt. try to formulate

vt. seat (someone)

ai. withered

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. form a crowd

name of coral head in Kapinga lagoon

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vt. to dry out under sunshine (by hanging)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

it doesn’t matter which

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

at. to put coconut cream into (e.g., food)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. move with the extremeties spread out

vt. feast, party

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

carving/scraping noise

canoe part: float connectives

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. foreign lands; the earth; the world

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

an islet of Kapinga Atoll (uninhabited)

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. sennit

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. light sprinkling rain

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. hair not on the head

n. armpit hair

sand

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. sea green wrasse; dragon wrasse

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

plywood

Run

escape

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vi. shake one’s head

drunk, get

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

sigh

fast

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vt. pick with a breadfruit picker

first

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

have breakfast

vi. urinate

n. a fiber of coconut husk

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. rectum

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. tin roofing

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. a knot that unties when pulled

breadfruit pancake, grilled on a fire

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

an islet of Kapinga Atoll (uninhabited)

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. gold-lined sea bream

Scientific name: Gnathodentex aurolineatus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. blue boxfish

Scientific name: Ostracion meleagris

n. three pointed fishing spear

n. teenage boy

n. double lined mackerel

Scientific name: Grammatorcynos bilineatus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Box

Skirt

bleed

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

v. to hit

tongue

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

n. rib cage

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,