Kapingamarangi English

adj. windy

phrase I want to

n. father

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

father-in-law

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. blue sky

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

paternal grandfather

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

defecate (shit)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. flatfish (flounder, halibut, etc)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

many waves

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

save

n. prepared food; raw soft breadfruit mixed with water

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. rabbitfish

Example: Photo by Jan Messersmith November 29, 2006 via Flickr License: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Scientific name: Siganus puellus,
Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

bulging or hilly

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. sorcerize

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

ai. broad space

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

cough

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

kill

n. box

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. to worry about

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. to misunderstand, not able to understand

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. constantly having to urinate

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

which one

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

trawling

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. wind around

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

bosom/breast

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

n. mother

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

natural mother

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. blood, to bleed

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

barb of a stingray used to pierce ears

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

poorly balanced

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

to appear unhealthy from overwork

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

laugh

n. young children

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

wash hair

wash someone

noun sand

Example: Photo by Matt Kiefer October 6, 2006 via Flickr License: CC BY-SA 2.0

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. hives

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. broad, open place

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. midnight snapper; black and white snapper

Scientific name: Macolor macularis; Macolor niger,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

school of red snapper

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,

chest

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

n. rocks for pounding

loincloth; makeshift, to do or tie temporarily

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. make up your minds

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. distort

vi. stumble

vt. sink or submerge (purposefully)

vt. amaze

vi. pout

vt. try to make (something) stand up

vt. to seat (e.g., person’s at a feast)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. screaming periodically

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,

to Mash

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. move with the extremeties spread out

n. foreign lands; the earth; the world

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. evening

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vi. look around

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,

very near

n. rib

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. sea green wrasse; dragon wrasse

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

roasted

v. speak

vi. run

Run

long

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. red warrior ant

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. starfish

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

Scientific name: Asteroidea sp.,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vt. throb

kind

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

worm

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

insect

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

once upon a time, first time

have breakfast

n. tin roofing

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. brain

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

louse, egg

v. mutter

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. maternal grandmother

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

vomit

n. blue boxfish

Scientific name: Ostracion meleagris

n. black-banded snapper

Scientific name: Lutjanus semicinctus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

famine

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

name of coral head in Kapinga lagoon

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

v. to hit

noise of knocking

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

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

sister

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

burned

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

shouting