Kapingamarangi English

flower blossoms

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. bluefin trevally

Scientific name: Caranx melampygus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. floor (house)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

maternal grandfather

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. basket made with coconut leaves with carrying handle

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

many waves

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. mollusk sp.

Scientific name: Atactodea sp.,
Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. octopi in general

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

rough play, rough-and-tumble

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

mollusk (nerita polida)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. embrace

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. hew

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v.phrase to go spearfishing

a coconut whose meat is dry without having been opened

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,

adj. young

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. shark sucker

Example: Photo by NOAA Photo Library September 12, 2013 via Flickr License: CC BY 2.0

Scientific name: Echeneis naucrates,
Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. to worry about

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. unable to, not up to the task

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. continuous

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

trawling

n. scissors

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

angelfish species

Scientific name: Pomacanthidae sp.

natural mother

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. house post

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. coconut husk

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. sand spit

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

to laugh at

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. whimbrel

Scientific name: Numenius phaeopus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

copra dried in the wind

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

tentacles of an octopus

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. green sea turtle

Example: Photo by prilfish July 20, 2011 via Flickr License: CC BY 2.0

Scientific name: Chelonia mydas,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

phrase we roast a fish

n. smoked fish

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

school of red snapper

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. outrigger float connecting stanchion

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

chest

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

think

vt. cause to sink, accidentally or temporarily

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. make up your minds

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. distort

vt. always reluctant

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. stumble

vi. be similar

greedy

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

boundary of taro plot

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. to show

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. to squint

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. amaze

vt. accumulate goods

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. try to formulate

vt. seat (someone)

vt. to dry out under sunshine (by hanging)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. to approach circumspectly; gingerly

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. lengthen

to Mash

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. memorize

welcoming feast

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Wag (a tail)

canoe part: float connectives

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. shooting star

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. foreign lands; the earth; the world

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. evening

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. appendage; fin

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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,

n. blacktip reef shark

Scientific name: Carcharhinus melanopterus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Obliterate

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

beard

n. board

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v. talk

Run

escape

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. perfume

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

tallest

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,

cold

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. starfish

Example: Photo by NOAA Photo Library September 24, 2010 via Flickr License: CC BY 2.0

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

kind

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

going any direction

n. tin roofing

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

sit down

noise of multiple claps

n. chest

n. teenage boy

canoe part: float braces

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

famine

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. happy, be

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

noise of knocking

sister-in-law

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. post supporting a house

n. mollusk sp.

Scientific name: Nerita picea,
Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

floating

n. rib cage

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,