Kapingamarangi English

n. white and purple flower plant

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. floor (house)

Speaker: Lieber, Michael D. and Kalio H. Dikepa. 1974.

maternal grandfather

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

paternal grandfather

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

to pluck, earthworms, to shake water off

Speaker: Lieber, Michael D. and Kalio H. Dikepa. 1974.

n. flatfish (flounder, halibut, etc)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. octopi in general

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Octopus

Speaker: Lieber, Michael D. and Kalio H. Dikepa. 1974.

basket

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. red snapper (Lutjanus vaigiensis)

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Speaker: Lieber, Michael D. and Kalio H. Dikepa. 1974.

vi. confused, be

Speaker: Lieber, Michael D. and Kalio H. Dikepa. 1974.

n. lower ridge pole; the very top

Speaker: Lieber, Michael D. and Kalio H. Dikepa. 1974.

kill

young

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

adj. young

n. teacher

Speaker: Lieber, Michael D. and Kalio H. Dikepa. 1974.

adj. never enough

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 29

adj. constantly having to urinate

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 29

adj. continuous

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 29

adj. to grow poorly, unable to grow

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 29

which one

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. moorish idol (Zanclus cornutus)

n. mother

Speaker: Lieber, Michael D. and Kalio H. Dikepa. 1974.

natural mother

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 33

phrase What’s your name?

barb of a stingray used to pierce ears

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 34

vt. kindle (fire)

Speaker: Lieber, Michael D. and Kalio H. Dikepa. 1974.

n. zenith

to appear unhealthy from overwork

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 39

n. sand spit

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 40

tired

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. soft meat of green coconut

Speaker: Lieber, Michael D. and Kalio H. Dikepa. 1974.

wash hair

tentacles of an octopus

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 48

white sand

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 49

soil

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 49

disk-like sand particle

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 49

sand

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 49

n. coral pebbles

Speaker: Lieber, Michael D. and Kalio H. Dikepa. 1974.

phrase we eat together for dinner

bunch of drinking coconuts

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 53

n. mud

n. smoked fish

Speaker: Lieber, Michael D. and Kalio H. Dikepa. 1974.

school of red snapper

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 55

to feel about in the dark, to grope

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 58

adj. multi-colored

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 58

first light of the moon or sun

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 60

vt. make up your minds

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 60

vi. be similar

make the veins of the neck stick out (as when angry)

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 69

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)

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 71

vt. to purposely sink or submerge (and leave submerged for some time)

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 71

vt. keep conversing

vt. seat (someone)

ai. withered

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 79

vi. be quiet

it doesn’t matter which

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 84

vt. to sear (e.g., meat)

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 84

to accumulate school of fish by feeding them, to attract by baiting

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 85

vt. memorize

fish:white marlin

Speaker: Lieber, Michael D. and Kalio H. Dikepa. 1974.

noun bird nest

carving/scraping noise

phrase good evening

vi. look around

n. hair not on the head

n. kidney

Speaker: Lieber, Michael D. and Kalio H. Dikepa. 1974.

n. rib

Speaker: Lieber, Michael D. and Kalio H. Dikepa. 1974.

vt. spreading the news, gossip

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 56

n. sponge

swimming

lie (down)

boiled

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. sea green wrasse (Novaculichthys macrolepidotus), dragon wrasse (Novaculichthys taeniourus)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. flame

v. talk

n. a lure for trawling

sigh

n. club used for beating fish

Speaker: Lieber, Michael D. and Kalio H. Dikepa. 1974.

adj. early (for an appt)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. short jawed bonefish (Albula glossodonta)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

v. To meander or to look around

Speaker: Lieber, Michael D. and Kalio H. Dikepa. 1974.

n. mother

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

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

going any direction

n. convict tang (Acanthurus triostegus)

phrase a triple hook

n. chin

Speaker: Lieber, Michael D. and Kalio H. Dikepa. 1974.

vt. mumble

n. maternal grandmother

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. gust of wind

Speaker: Lieber, Michael D. and Kalio H. Dikepa. 1974.

n. a three pronged fishing spear

n. three pointed fishing spear

n. teenage boy

n. guardian

n. hungry whine

n. branching coral

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

tongue

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

mollusk (nerita picea)

Speaker: Lieber, Michael D. and Kalio H. Dikepa. 1974.