Kapingamarangi English

n. foam

flower blossoms

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. bluefin trevally

Scientific name: Caranx melampygus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. white-edged lyretail; yellow-edged lyretail

Scientific name: Aetobatus narinari; Variola louti,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

to pluck, earthworms, to shake water off

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. choppy, rough (of seas)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

grown soft

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v. dribble

n. basket made with coconut leaves with carrying handle

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. mollusk sp.

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

basket for serving portions at a feast

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

trumpet shell

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. sorcerize

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v.phrase to go spearfishing

vi. confused, be

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. eldest child

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. young

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. sorcerer

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. unceasingly, always

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. scissors

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. moorish idol

Scientific name: Zanclus cornutus

phrase What’s your name?

n. sister

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. kindle (fire)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

to appear unhealthy from overwork

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. coconut husk

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. sand spit

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

tired

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. ladder, stairway

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

copra dried in the wind

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

wash hair

n. grass

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

reef flat

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. throwing net

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

school of red snapper

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

noun mud

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

adj. multi-colored

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. rocks for pounding

set on fire

vt. cause to repeatedly have free time

first light of the moon or sun

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

to cool off by a breeze

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. think

vt. always reluctant

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. stumble

vt. accumulate goods

vt. rock back and forth

vt. screaming periodically

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

mother and daughter relation, a mother and her children

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. be quiet

vt. to stagger under a weight or when very sleepy

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. allow to ripen

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v. be very fast

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

help

vt. feast, party

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

welcoming feast

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

v. hurry

n. shooting star

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

an islet of Kapinga Atoll (uninhabited)

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

phrase good evening

n. tongue

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. armpit hair

beard

n. kidney

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. mirror

lie (down)

n. tree

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. shouting wood used for making houses on Kapinga atoll

Run

drunk, get

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. a lure for trawling

vt. sizzle

v. shake

n. club used for beating fish

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

have fever

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

n. starfish

Example: Photo by NOAA Photo Library September 24, 2010 via Flickr License: CC BY 2.0

Scientific name: Asteroidea sp.,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. frying pan

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

eat

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vi. urinate

n. tin roof

n. maternal grandmother

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

breadfruit pancake, grilled on a fire

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. gold-lined sea bream

Scientific name: Gnathodentex aurolineatus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

second coconut stage; small green coconut

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. a three pronged fishing spear

n. chest

n. teenage girl

n. teenage boy

n. guardian

n. black-banded snapper

Scientific name: Lutjanus semicinctus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. ghost crab

Scientific name: Ocypodinae sp.,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. hungry whine

n. branching coral

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

name of coral head in Kapinga lagoon

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

noise of knocking

n. place name: heavily populated central islet

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

elder sister

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

noun bark

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. rib cage

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,