Kapingamarangi English

n. white biblical dove

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. bluefin trevally

Scientific name: Caranx melampygus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. father

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

father-in-law

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. floor (house)

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. octopi in general

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

adj. dumb

basket

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

mollusk (nerita polida)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. tooth brush

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

tooth brush

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v.phrase to go spearfishing

kill

adj. never enough

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. unable to, not up to the task

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. forgetful, absent-minded

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

trawling

vt. wind around

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

phrase What’s your name?

Peck

sweep

roughness

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

school of surgeon fish

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

to appear unhealthy from overwork

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. climb

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. bathe

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v. wash self

wash hair

type of turtle

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

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

white sand

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

sand

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

phrase we eat together for dinner

level ground

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

disgusting place

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,

v. be somewhat fast

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

adj. filthy, disgusted (with smelly objects like feces)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

school of red snapper

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. multi-colored

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. level (e.g. ground)

vt. use sparingly

vt. to feed workers

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. pout

vt. to try to formulate (e.g., an idea or plan)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. make up (after fighting)

vt. seat (someone)

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. form a crowd

vt. to dry out under sunshine (by hanging)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. to approach circumspectly; gingerly

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v. be very fast

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. manta ray

Scientific name: Manta alfredi,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Wag (a tail)

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,

noun bird nest

n. evening

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. tongue

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. blacktip reef shark

Scientific name: Carcharhinus melanopterus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. light sprinkling rain

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

both

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. rib

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

sand

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

lie (down)

n. olive-scribbled wrasse

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. shake one’s head

drunk, be

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. wide-band fusilier

Scientific name: Pterocaesio lativittata,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

tallest

n. red warrior ant

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

v. shake

name of coral head in Kapinga lagoon

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

adj. early (for an appt)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

v. To meander or to look around

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. mother

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

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

n. convict tang

Scientific name: Acanthurus triostegus

n. bird

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

once upon a time, first time

fan

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. a fiber of coconut husk

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. old or worn out sarong, rag

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v. crumple

noise of multiple claps

bang bang

vomit

v. to pound

n. slipper lobster species

Scientific name: Scyllaridae sp.

n. chest

n. guardian

n. hungry whine

v. to hit

noise of knocking

sister-in-law

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

elder sister

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich