Kapingamarangi English

n. foam

bottom fishing

phrase I want to

n. father

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. pot

grown soft

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 11

n. mahi mahi or common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus)

n. Mollusk, sp.: (Atactodea)

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 12

rough play, rough-and-tumble

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 13

n. rabbit fish (Siganus puellus)

Example: Photo by Jan Messersmith November 29, 2006
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Speaker: Lieber, Michael D. and Kalio H. Dikepa. 1974.

n. tooth brush

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

tooth brush

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 17

vt. hew

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

ai. broad space

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 20

to gossip about someone

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

cough

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

young

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. box

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 28

adj. unable to, not up to the task

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 29

adj. unceasingly, always

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 29

adj. to grow poorly, unable to grow

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 29

n. scissors

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

vt. wind around

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

bosom/breast

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

n. house post

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

to appear unhealthy from overwork

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 39

n. coconut husk

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

n. ladder

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

to laugh at

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 45

thin cloth

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 46

n. intestines

soft meat of green cocount

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 47

v. wash self

wash hair

tentacles of an octopus

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 48

n. sand

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

n. soil

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

n. hives

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

phrase we roast a fish

level ground

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 51

n. plant (Fimbristylis cymosa)

Example: Photo by Forest and Kim Starr February 12, 2001
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Speaker: Lieber, Michael D. and Kalio H. Dikepa. 1974.

bunch of drinking coconuts

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 53

school of red snapper

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 55

to feel about in the dark, to grope

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 58

vt. cause to sink, accidentally or temporarily

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 59

to cool off by a breeze

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 60

vt. distort

vt. to feed workers

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 68

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

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 69

vt. to add more coconut meat

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 69

boundary of taro plot

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 69

vt. to show

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 69

vt. rock back and forth

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. scream periodically

vt. always keeping someone company

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 72

vt. tidy, to keep clean

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 80

mother and daughter relation, a mother and her children

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 81

vt. form a crowd

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

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 84

v. be very fast

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

help

vt. move with the extremeties spread out

vt. feast, party

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 88

Manta ray

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

find

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

adj. skinny

n. flower of the Clerodendrum inerme

Example: Photo by Lauren Gutierrez February 4, 2012
via FlickrLicense: CC BY-ND 2.0

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

n. blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. light sprinkling rain

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

n. armpit hair

both

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

bark (dog)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Stick used for pushing the boat out

Olive-scribbled wrasse

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

n. thorn branch

roasted

plywood

sigh

fast

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

tallest

n. red warrior ant

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. dolphin (Coryphaena hippurus)

Example: Photo by manoellemos February 9, 2007
via FlickrLicense: CC BY-SA 2.0

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

n. embers

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

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

kind

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

insect

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

first

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

have breakfast

n. zero

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

vt. mumble

v. mutter

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

scraping soda can on table noise

bang bang

low tide

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 41

n. blue boxfish (Ostracion meleagris)

priest

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

tongue

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. place name: heavily populated central islet

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 43

sister

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich