Kapingamarangi English

n. fence, wall of a house

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 3

adj. brilliant (used only with the color red)

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 5

n. white and purple flower plant

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n. bluefin trevally (Caranx melampygus)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

phrase I want to

phrase I am supposed to be a high school student

n. white-edged lyretail (Aetobatus narinari), yellow-edged lyretail (Variola louti)

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father-in-law

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defecate (shit)

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fish species

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

n. octopi in general

Shiver

n. tooth brush

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

ai. broad space

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 20

vt. pull; drag

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

n. hard working man, especially a fisherman

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 23

vt. pray

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

young

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

adj. young

adj. never flies (e.g. a kite)

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 29

adj. blind

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 29

adj. unceasingly, always

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 29

adj. stuffed full

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 29

adj. too small, misfitted

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 29

n. moorish idol (Zanclus cornutus)

bosom/breast

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

poorly balanced

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 40.

tired

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n. ladder, stairway

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 44

n. whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

v. wash self

disk-like sand particle

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 49

sand

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 49

disgusting place

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 52

bunch of drinking coconuts

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 53

n. smoked fish

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

v. be somewhat fast

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

adj. multi-colored

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 58

n. rocks for pounding

loincloth; makeshift, to do or tie temporarily

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 59

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. level (e.g. ground)

vt. drive a school of fish

vt. think

vt. distort

vt. sink or submerge (purposefully)

greedy

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 69

vt. to squint

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 69

vt. accumulate goods

vi. pout

ai. swelling periodically

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 75

vt. make up (after fighting)

vt. to seat (e.g., person’s at a feast)

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 78

vt. scream periodically

vt. always keeping someone company

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 72

v. be very fast

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

school of flying fish

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 88

find

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adj. skinny

n. sennit

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

n. appendage; fin

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

near

n. blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. hair not on the head

bark (dog)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. olive-scribbled wrasse

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

n. sea green wrasse (Novaculichthys macrolepidotus), dragon wrasse (Novaculichthys taeniourus)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Olive-scribbled wrasse

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

vi. heat up

plywood

Run

drunk, be

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

drunk, get

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

fast

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. perfume

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

n. nipple of breasts

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

n. six-blotch hind (Cephalopholis sexmaculata)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) and similar species

n. starfish

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

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

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.

eat

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

have breakfast

n. old or worn out sarong, rag

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

n. brain

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

n. egg

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

n. tin roof

n. paternal grandmother

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

scraping soda can on table noise

bang bang

n. blue boxfish (Ostracion meleagris)

n. teenage girl

n. black-banded snapper (Lutjanus semicinctus)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. double lined mackerel (Grammatorcynos bilineatus)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Skirt

happy

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tongue

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. mollusk (nerita picea)

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

noun bark

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich