Kapingamarangi English

n. foam

phrase I want to

blood clot

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. floor (house)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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,

many waves

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. prepared food; raw soft breadfruit mixed with water

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. octopi in general

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

basket

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

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,

vt. embrace

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. hard working man, especially a fisherman

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,

n. sorcerer

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. to worry about

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. always late

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. to misunderstand, not able to understand

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. unsuccessful

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. constantly having to urinate

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. stuffed full

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

trawling

natural mother

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Peck

n. boxing or fighting

n. house post

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

to appear unhealthy from overwork

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. coconut husk

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. ladder

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. ladder, stairway

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. young children

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

fish innards

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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

disk-like sand particle

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

disgusting place

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. cloud

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

bunch of drinking coconuts

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. mud

chest

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

snore

first light of the moon or sun

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. to measure out, allot

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. think

vt. distort

vt. add more coconut meat

vt. to squint

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. rock back and forth

vt. get drunk

mf to try to, periodically (variant of haga prefix, augmenting the meaning of the derivative form in the sense of repetitive action over a long period of time)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. make up (after fighting)

vt. tidy, to keep clean

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,

help

vt. move with the extremeties spread out

school of flying fish

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v. hurry

n. outhouse

Example: Photo by Joel Abroad September 29, 2007 via Flickr License: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

phrase good evening

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,

Bark

n. beard hair

n. armpit hair

both

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

beard

swimming

lie (down)

boiled

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. thorn branch

vi. heat up

roasted

drunk, get

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Musky smell of sex

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. six-blotch hind

Scientific name: Cephalopholis sexmaculata,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

adj. early (for an appt)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vt. weigh (on a scale); seek by divination

going any direction

once upon a time, first time

an islet of Kapinga Atoll (uninhabited, reserved for use by fishermen only)

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n flute, whistle

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

n. a fiber of coconut husk

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. eyeball

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. tin roof

To chew or masticate

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v. mutter

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v. crumple

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

bang bang

n. blue boxfish

Scientific name: Ostracion meleagris

n. teenage boy

n. guardian

n. hungry whine

canoe part: float braces

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. kawakawa tuna or mackerel tuna

Scientific name: Euthynnus affinis,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Skirt

personal name of a Kapinga man who lived in the first half of the 20th century.

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. long line for bottom fishing

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,