Kapingamarangi English

n. foam

n. white biblical dove

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

bottom fishing

blood clot

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

father-in-law

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. blue sky

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

maternal grandfather

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

v. dribble

basket

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. rabbitfish species

Scientific name: Siganus sp.,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

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,

trumpet shell

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v.phrase to go spearfishing

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,

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. always late

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. constantly having to urinate

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. stuffed full

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

phrase What’s your name?

poorly balanced

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. coconut husk

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

tired

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. ladder, stairway

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

cloudy

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. whimbrel

Scientific name: Numenius phaeopus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. intestines

soft meat of green cocount

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

type of turtle

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

fish innards

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

disk-like sand particle

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. broad, open place

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. mud

n. throwing net

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,

think

first light of the moon or sun

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. level (e.g. ground)

vt. to measure out, allot

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

boundary of taro plot

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. amaze

vt. try to formulate

vt. make up (after fighting)

mother and daughter relation, a mother and her children

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

at. to put coconut cream into (e.g., food)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. move with the extremeties spread out

fish:white marlin

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. manta ray

Scientific name: Manta alfredi,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Manta ray

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v. surf

n. bath house

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. sennit

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

choose

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

both

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

beard

boiled

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. thorn branch

vi. heat up

n. shouting wood used for making houses on Kapinga atoll

v. speak

n. wide-band fusilier

Scientific name: Pterocaesio lativittata,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Musky smell of sex

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Meek in spirit

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. red warrior ant

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

name of coral head in Kapinga lagoon

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. six-blotch hind

Scientific name: Cephalopholis sexmaculata,
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,

have fever

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

n. embers

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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

worm

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. frying pan

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

fan

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vi. urinate

n. tin roofing

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. egg

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

n. longnosed emperor

Scientific name: Lethrinus olivaceus

vt. mumble

bang bang

vomit

v. to pound

n. chest

n. blue boxfish

Scientific name: Ostracion meleagris

n. teenage girl

n. guardian

n. black-banded snapper

Scientific name: Lutjanus semicinctus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. hungry whine

happy

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

tongue

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

sister-in-law

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

elder sister

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

shouting