Kapingamarangi English

adj. brilliant (used only with the color red)

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 5

adj. windy

blood clot

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

n. floor (house)

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

n. blue sky

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

n. pot

adj. choppy, rough (of seas)

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 10

grown soft

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 11

v. dribble

n. prepared food; raw soft breadfruit mixed with water

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 12

Octopus

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

vi. octopus

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 13

basket for serving portions at a feast

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 15

v.phrase to go spearfishing

vt. pull; drag

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

n. eldest child

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

adj. young

adj. always late

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 29

vi. to misunderstand, not able to understand

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 29

adj. unsuccessful

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 29

adj. unable to, not up to the task

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 29

adj. constantly having to urinate

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 29

adj. to grow poorly, unable to grow

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 29

trawling

n. scissors

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

bosom/breast

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

Peck

n. sister

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

vt. to kindle (a fire or lantern)

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 38

school of surgeon fish

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 40.

n. sand spit

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 40

thin cloth

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 46

n. intestines

n. young children

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

n. soft meat of green coconut

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

noun sand

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Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. sand

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

soil

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 49

n. coral pebbles

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

phrase we roast a fish

phrase we eat together for dinner

n. broad, open place

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

n. playground

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

n. cloud

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

reef flat

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 53

n. throwing net

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

noun mud

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. outrigger float connecting stanchion

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 57

vi. to limp

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 58

n. rocks for pounding

set on fire

vt. to measure out, allot

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 60

vt. distort

vt. always reluctant

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 64

vi. be similar

vt. sink or submerge (purposefully)

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

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 69

boundary of taro plot

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 69

vt. to squint

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 69

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

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 74

vt. seat (someone)

vt. always lying (someone) on a pillow

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 79

mother and daughter relation, a mother and her children

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 81

vt. to stagger under a weight or when very sleepy

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 83

vt. move with the extremeties spread out

fish:white marlin

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

v. hurry

n. lionfish in general, red lionfish (Pterois volitans)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

very near

n. tongue

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.

Bark

n. sponge

vi. run

drunk, get

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. perfume

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

vt. pick with a breadfruit picker

have fever

n. open area around the house

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

n. embers

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

n. hurricane lantern

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

n. mother

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

first

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. toy

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

vi. urinate

n. tin roofing

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

n. brain

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

n. eyeball

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

n. tin roof

n. longnosed emperor (Lethrinus olivaceus)

v. mutter

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

v. crumple

bang bang

priest

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. black-banded snapper (Lutjanus semicinctus)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. hungry whine

youngest sister

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. rib cage

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

shouting