Kapingamarangi English

n. foam

n. white and purple flower plant

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

adj. windy

n. blue sky

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v. dribble

n. tooth brush

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. hew

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. lower ridge pole; the very top

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. never flies (e.g. a kite)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. unceasingly, always

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

which

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

trawling

n. moorish idol

Scientific name: Zanclus cornutus

laugh

n. term referring to young things, young children

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

wash hair

tentacles of an octopus

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. coral pebbles

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. mud

school of red snapper

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

noun mud

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vi. to limp

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

loincloth; makeshift, to do or tie temporarily

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. drive a school of fish

vt. allow to ripen

vt. memorize

vi. look around

n. fish fin

beard

n. rib

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

sand

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. club used for beating fish

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. throb

going any direction

n. convict tang

Scientific name: Acanthurus triostegus

eat

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

have breakfast

To chew or masticate

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. mumble

v. crumple

breadfruit pancake, grilled on a fire

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

v. to pound

n. teenage boy

Box

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

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

noise of knocking

tongue

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

shouting