Kapingamarangi English

n. foam

n. bluefin trevally

Scientific name: Caranx melampygus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

phrase I am supposed to be a high school student

n. father

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. pot

n. flatfish (flounder, halibut, etc)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

v. dribble

rough play, rough-and-tumble

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. dumb

trumpet shell

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. sorcerize

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Goodbye

n. red snapper

Example: Photo by Florida Fish and Wildlife Center April 3, 2012 via Flickr License: CC BY-ND 2.0

Scientific name: Lutjanus vaigiensis,
Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

a coconut whose meat is dry without having been opened

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. hard working man, especially a fisherman

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. pray

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. young

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vt. wrestle

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. to misunderstand, not able to understand

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. to grow poorly, unable to grow

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

angelfish species

Scientific name: Pomacanthidae sp.

n. moorish idol

Scientific name: Zanclus cornutus

bosom/breast

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

natural 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,

n. coconut husk

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. sand spit

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

tired

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. intestines

soft meat of green cocount

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v. wash self

fish innards

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. coral pebbles

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. broad, open place

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. playground

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

bunch of drinking coconuts

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. smoked fish

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

reef flat

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. to limp

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

snore

vt. cause to sink, accidentally or temporarily

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. make up your minds

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. to feed workers

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

boundary of taro plot

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. to show

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. pout

vt. seat (someone)

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. always keeping someone company

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

at. to tangle up

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. form a crowd

vt. allow to ripen

vt. to approach circumspectly; gingerly

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. feast, party

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

find

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

canoe part: float connectives

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. foreign lands; the earth; the world

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

near

beard

bark (dog)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. sponge

swimming

n. olive-scribbled wrasse

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. thorn branch

n. flame

tallest

name of coral head in Kapinga lagoon

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. club used for beating fish

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. small-toothed jobfish

Scientific name: Aphareus furca

v. To meander or to look around

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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. weigh (on a scale); seek by divination

kind

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

worm

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

insect

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

phrase a double hook

fan

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n flute, whistle

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

vi. urinate

n. a fiber of coconut husk

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. old or worn out sarong, rag

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. mumble

noise of multiple claps

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

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

priest

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. guardian

n. black-banded snapper

Scientific name: Lutjanus semicinctus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

famine

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. double lined mackerel

Scientific name: Grammatorcynos bilineatus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

v. to hit

tongue

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

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

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. post supporting a house

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,