Kapingamarangi English

n. white biblical dove

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. blue sky

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

maternal grandfather

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

to pluck, earthworms, to shake water off

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

n. pot

n. flatfish (flounder, halibut, etc)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

v. dribble

n. octopi in general

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Octopus

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

mollusk (nerita polida)

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

trumpet shell

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 18

n. red snapper (Lutjanus vaigiensis)

Example: Photo by Florida Fish and Wildlife Center April 3, 2012 via Flickr License: CC BY-ND 2.0

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

n. lower ridge pole; the very top

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

cough

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

kill

vt. pray

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

young

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

adj. young

vi. to worry about

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 29

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

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 29

adj. never enough

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 29

adj. constantly having to urinate

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 29

adj. unceasingly, always

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 29

adj. too small, misfitted

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 29

which one

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

adj. knotty (wood), having many bumps (of a tree)

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 31

angelfish species (Pomacanthidae sp.)

bosom/breast

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

n. mother

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

barb of a stingray used to pierce ears

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 34

sweep

n. house post

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

poorly balanced

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 40.

tired

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. young children

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

n. term referring to young things, young children

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 47

n. soft meat of green coconut

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

copra dried in the wind

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 48

wash someone

noun sand

Example: Photo by Matt Kiefer October 6, 2006 via Flickr License: CC BY-SA 2.0

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

disk-like sand particle

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 49

n. broad, open place

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

n. plant (Fimbristylis cymosa)

Example: Photo by Forest and Kim Starr February 12, 2001 via Flickr License: CC BY 2.0

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

n. smoked fish

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

reef flat

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 53

n. rocks for pounding

vt. cause to repeatedly have free time

vt. cause to sink, accidentally or temporarily

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 59

first light of the moon or sun

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 60

to cool off by a breeze

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 60

vt. to measure out, allot

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 60

vt. drive a school of fish

vt. to feed workers

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 68

vt. to purposely sink or submerge (and leave submerged for some time)

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 71

vt. try to make (something) stand up

ai. swelling periodically

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 75

mother and daughter relation, a mother and her children

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 81

help

n. bath house

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

n. evening

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. sennit

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

near

n. blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Bark

n. hair not on the head

n. armpit hair

n. mirror

vi. shake one’s head

n. wide-band fusilier (Pterocaesio lativittata)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

sigh

n. club used for beating fish

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

n. six-blotch hind (Cephalopholis sexmaculata)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

v. To meander or to look around

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

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.

worm

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. bird

Example: Photo by tropical.pete September 28, 2007 via Flickr License: CC BY-SA 2.0

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

first

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

phrase a double hook

have breakfast

n. rectum

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

n. old or worn out sarong, rag

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

n. egg

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

n. eyeball

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

louse, egg

n. tin roof

To chew or masticate

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

sit down

n. maternal grandmother

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. paternal grandmother

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

v. to pound

famine

Speaker: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, p. 42

n. double lined mackerel (Grammatorcynos bilineatus)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

bleed

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

sister

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

youngest sister

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

elder sister

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. post supporting a house

n. mollusk (nerita picea)

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

noun bark

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. rib cage

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