Kapingamarangi English

n. foam

adj. brilliant (used only with the color red)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

earing

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

maternal grandfather

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

many waves

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. mahi mahi or common dolphinfish

Scientific name: Coryphaena hippurus

save

n. octopi in general

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vi. octopus

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

basket for serving portions at a feast

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,

n. tooth brush

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. hard working man, especially a fisherman

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. lower ridge pole; the very top

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

n. eldest child

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. box

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. to worry about

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. blind

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. unable to, not up to the task

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. continuous

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. stuffed full

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

angelfish species

Scientific name: Pomacanthidae sp.

vi. blood, to bleed

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Peck

n. sister

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. house post

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

poorly balanced

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

school of surgeon fish

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

to appear unhealthy from overwork

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. sand spit

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

cloudy

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

to laugh at

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

thin cloth

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. term referring to young things, young children

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. spadefish and batfish species

Scientific name: Chaetodipterus sp.,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. soft meat of green coconut

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

wash someone

fish innards

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

phrase we eat together for dinner

level ground

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. broad, open place

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. cloud

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

bunch of drinking coconuts

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. midnight snapper; black and white snapper

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

vi. to limp

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

chest

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

vt. cause to repeatedly have free time

to cool off by a breeze

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. think

vi. be similar

vt. add more coconut meat

vt. to show

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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. keep conversing

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. always keeping someone company

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. tidy, to keep clean

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

mother and daughter relation, a mother and her children

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. form a crowd

name of coral head in Kapinga lagoon

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

v. be very fast

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

find

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. outhouse

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. look around

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,

near

very near

n. light sprinkling rain

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. hair not on the head

both

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. rib

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

lie (down)

n. sea green wrasse; dragon wrasse

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

n. tree

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

drunk, be

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vt. sizzle

sigh

n. six-blotch hind

Scientific name: Cephalopholis sexmaculata,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. bird

Example: Photo by tropical.pete September 28, 2007 via Flickr License: CC BY-SA 2.0

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

phrase a double hook

eat

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. rectum

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. zero

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. maternal grandmother

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. paternal grandmother

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

clam shell, used for ornament or for scraping off burned outer shell of cooked breadfruit

Example: Photo by genjitsu / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Asaphis violascens,
Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

an islet of Kapinga Atoll (uninhabited)

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

second coconut stage; small green coconut

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

v. to pound

n. chest

n. guardian

n. black-banded snapper

Scientific name: Lutjanus semicinctus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. ghost crab

Scientific name: Ocypodinae sp.,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. hungry whine

n. branching coral

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vi. happy, be

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

youngest sister

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

shouting