Kapingamarangi English

n.    mountain, hill

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Example: Photo by Naval Surface Warriors June 15, 2011 via Flickr License: CC BY-SA 2.0

Semantic domains:

• natural world

n.    mountain

Example: 110616-O-ZZ999-032. Naval Surface Warriors. Flickr. via Flickr

Semantic domains:

• natural world

n.    ivory nut

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Semantic domains:

• plants

noun    village

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Example: Photo by tata_aka_T December 2, 2008 via Flickr License: CC BY 2.0

n.    driftwood

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Example: Photo by Sharon Ann March 31, 2011 via Flickr License: CC BY-ND 2.0

Semantic domains:

• ocean/sea

n.    stone

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Example: Photo by tata_aka_T December 2, 2008 via Flickr License: CC BY 2.0

Semantic domains:

• natural world

   place name on Kapinga inner reef

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Semantic domains:

• place names

   place name on Kapinga inner reef

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Semantic domains:

• place names

   place name on Kapinga inner reef

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Semantic domains:

• place names

   garden

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Example: Photo by tata_aka_T December 2, 2008 via Flickr License: CC BY 2.0

   name of coral head in Kapinga lagoon

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Semantic domains:

• place names

n.    piece of a palm tree near the base

Semantic domains:

• natural world

v.    to lower a trap from the surface and tie it to the reef rather than securing it to the bottom with rocks, also the wooden beams at the base of the trap that are used to secure it by piling rocks on top.

   Spear Gun

n.    house

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Example: Photo by tata_aka_T December 2, 2008 via Flickr License: CC BY 2.0

Semantic domains:

• locations

n.    outhouse

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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

Semantic domains:

• locations

n.    hospital

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Example: Photo by Official US Navy Page July 7, 2011 via Flickr License: CC BY 2.0

Semantic domains:

• locations

   an islet of Kapinga Atoll (uninhabited, has a traditional cemetary, and also a place that is used as a garbage dump)

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Semantic domains:

• place names

n.    the rock holding the bait to the fishing hook in traditional kapinga bottom fishing

Semantic domains:

• tools

n.    hibiscus tree

Scientific name: Hibiscus tiliaceus

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Example: Photo by Dr. Avishai Teicher via Wikimedia Commons License: CC BY 2.5

Semantic domains:

• plants

   hibiscus

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Example: Photo by danaleeling / iNaturalist, CC0: via inaturalist.org

Semantic domains:

• botany

n.    eel

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Example: Giant Moray. Photo by Derek Keats. August 28, 2011 via Flickr License: CC BY 2.0

Semantic domains:

• fish and marine life

n.    ripe pandanus fruit

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Example: Pomelo (Citrus maxima) fruit from Kerala. Public Domain Photos Blog: Krishna. Flickr. via Flickr

Semantic domains:

• food

n.    pandanus fruit

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Semantic domains:

• plants

   an islet of Kapinga Atoll (uninhabited)

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Semantic domains:

• place names

   an islet of Kapinga Atoll (uninhabited)

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Semantic domains:

• place names

   an islet of Kapinga Atoll (uninhabited)

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Semantic domains:

• place names

n.    paddle

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Example: Photo by Travis S. December 2, 2011 via Flickr License: CC BY-NC 2.0

Semantic domains:

• tools

n.    flower of the Clerodendrum inerme

Scientific name: Clerodendrum inerme

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Example: Photo by Lauren Gutierrez February 4, 2012 via Flickr License: CC BY-ND 2.0

Semantic domains:

• plants

n.    pushing paddle

Semantic domains:

• tools

n.    green sea turtle

Scientific name: Chelonia mydas

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Example: Photo by prilfish July 20, 2011 via Flickr License: CC BY 2.0

Semantic domains:

• fish and marine life

n.    pumice stone

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Example: Pumice Stone. Ambuj Saxena. Flickr. via Flickr

Semantic domains:

• natural world

   an islet of Kapinga Atoll (uninhabited, contains the cemetary, beleived to be inhabited by bad spirits)

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Semantic domains:

• place names

   an islet of Kapinga Atoll (uninhabited)

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Semantic domains:

• place names

n.    undulate triggerfish

Scientific name: Balistapus undulatus

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Example: Photo by zsispeo February 10, 2013 via Flickr License: CC BY-SA 2.0

Semantic domains:

• fish and marine life

n.    core (breadfruit, fruit, etc.)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Example: Photo by US Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center May 6, 2006 via Wikimedia Commons License: Public Domain

Semantic domains:

• food
• breadfruit

n.    coconut shell

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Example: Coconut (Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.). Dag Endresen. Flickr. via Flickr

Semantic domains:

• coconuts

n.    cloud

Semantic domains:

• natural world

noun    frog

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Example: Photo by Zug, G., Watling, D. & Morrison, C. July 1, 2008 via Wikipedia License: CC BY-SA 3.0

Semantic domains:

• insects/reptiles

   toad

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Example: Photo by Joe McKenna February 7, 2009 via Flickr License: CC BY 2.0

Semantic domains:

• insects/reptiles

n.    snail or slug in shell

Semantic domains:

• fish and marine life

   Kapingamarangi

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Semantic domains:

• place names

   swimming

n.    woven hat for fishermen (lit. hat-weave)

Semantic domains:

• material world

   A woven-Pandanus bed mat

n.    fruit bat

Scientific name: Pteropus mariannus

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Semantic domains:

• mammals

n.    plant

Scientific name: Polyscias scutelleria

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Example: Photo by Forest & Kim Starr August 13, 2002 via Wikipedia License: CC BY 3.0

Semantic domains:

• plants

   Stick used for pushing the boat out

n.    tree

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n.    tree

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Semantic domains:

• plants