Kapingamarangi English

adj. brilliant (used only with the color red)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. windy

n. bluefin trevally

Scientific name: Caranx melampygus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

adj. choppy, rough (of seas)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. mollusk sp.

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

n. octopi in general

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

basket for serving portions at a feast

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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,

bulging or hilly

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. tooth brush

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

tooth brush

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. embrace

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v.phrase to go spearfishing

a coconut whose meat is dry without having been opened

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

cough

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

adj. young

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vt. wrestle

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. mother

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. sister

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. zenith

n. house post

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

roughness

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

poorly balanced

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. coconut husk

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. sand spit

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. dragonfly

Example: Photo by Klaus Stiefel January 5, 2008 via Flickr License: CC BY-NC 2.0

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

cloudy

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vt. climb

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. term referring to young things, young children

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

wash someone

white sand

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

disk-like sand particle

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. coral pebbles

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

phrase we roast a fish

n. broad, open place

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. cloud

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

bunch of drinking coconuts

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. mud

n. midnight snapper; black and white snapper

Scientific name: Macolor macularis; Macolor niger,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

adj. filthy, disgusted (with smelly objects like feces)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

school of red snapper

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

think

to cool off by a breeze

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. distort

vi. stumble

boundary of taro plot

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. to squint

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. rock back and forth

ai. swelling periodically

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. make up (after fighting)

vt. seat (someone)

vt. always keeping someone company

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

at. to tangle up

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. move with the extremeties spread out

v. surf

n. outhouse

Example: Photo by Joel Abroad September 29, 2007 via Flickr License: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

noun bird nest

carving/scraping noise

an islet of Kapinga Atoll (uninhabited)

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. appendage; fin

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. beard hair

vt. carrying

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. spreading the news, gossip

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

lie (down)

boiled

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Stick used for pushing the boat out

fast

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vt. pick with a breadfruit picker

v. shake

n. nipple of breasts

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

cold

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. mimic octopus and similar species

Scientific name: Thaumoctopus mimicus

n. hurricane lantern

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

dull

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

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

n. convict tang

Scientific name: Acanthurus triostegus

once upon a time, first time

phrase a double hook

phrase a triple hook

an islet of Kapinga Atoll (uninhabited)

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. rectum

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. tin roofing

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. egg

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

n. zero

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v. crumple

n. maternal grandmother

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. paternal grandmother

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

second coconut stage; small green coconut

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. teenage girl

n. teenage boy

n. guardian

famine

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. happy, be

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

an islet of Kapinga Atoll (one of only two that is inhabited)

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. place name: heavily populated central islet

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

youngest sister

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich