Kapingamarangi English

n. white biblical dove

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

father-in-law

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. blue sky

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. choppy, rough (of seas)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

grown soft

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. basket made with coconut leaves with carrying handle

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

save

n. prepared food; raw soft breadfruit mixed with water

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. dumb

n. rabbitfish species

Scientific name: Siganus sp.,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

bulging or hilly

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. red snapper

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

Scientific name: Lutjanus vaigiensis,
Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

cough

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

kill

n. shark sucker

Example: Photo by NOAA Photo Library September 12, 2013 via Flickr License: CC BY 2.0

Scientific name: Echeneis naucrates,
Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. box

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vi. to worry about

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. unable to stand (e.g. in high tide)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. constantly having to urinate

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. to grow poorly, unable to grow

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

which

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

adj. forgetful, absent-minded

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. moorish idol

Scientific name: Zanclus cornutus

vt. to kindle (a fire or lantern)

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

sweep

n. dragonfly

Example: Photo by Klaus Stiefel January 5, 2008 via Flickr License: CC BY-NC 2.0

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. ladder, stairway

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

to laugh at

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

white sand

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. hives

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. broad, open place

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

disgusting place

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

bunch of drinking coconuts

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. multi-colored

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

chest

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

vt. cause to repeatedly have free time

vt. make up your minds

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. always reluctant

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. rock back and forth

vi. pout

vt. always keeping someone company

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

it doesn’t matter which

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

to accumulate school of fish by feeding them, to attract by baiting

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. move with the extremeties spread out

vt. memorize

n. manta ray

Scientific name: Manta alfredi,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Wag (a tail)

v. surf

n. outhouse

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

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. lionfish in general; red lionfish

Scientific name: Pterois volitans,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

choose

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. fish fin

near

n. tongue

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

Bark

n. kidney

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. rib

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

vt. spreading the news, gossip

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. mirror

Stick used for pushing the boat out

n. sea green wrasse; dragon wrasse

Scientific name: Novaculichthys macrolepidotus; Novaculichthys taeniourus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

v. speak

n. a lure for trawling

long

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vt. pick with a breadfruit picker

v. shake

n. club used for beating fish

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

adj. early (for an appt)

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. short jawed bonefish

Scientific name: Albula glossodonta,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. small-toothed jobfish

Scientific name: Aphareus furca

have fever

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

dull

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vt. weigh (on a scale); seek by divination

kind

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

going any direction

phrase a triple hook

n. toy

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

have breakfast

vi. urinate

n. a fiber of coconut husk

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. old or worn out sarong, rag

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. tin roofing

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

n. egg

Speaker: Hawortson Heinrich

an islet of Kapinga Atoll (uninhabited)

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. gold-lined sea bream

Scientific name: Gnathodentex aurolineatus,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

vomit

v. to pound

n. teenage girl

n. teenage boy

n. ghost crab

Scientific name: Ocypodinae sp.,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

canoe part: float braces

Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. kawakawa tuna or mackerel tuna

Scientific name: Euthynnus affinis,
Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

Box

vi. happy, be

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,

personal name of a Kapinga man who lived in the first half of the 20th century.

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

noise of knocking

an islet of Kapinga Atoll (one of only two that is inhabited)

Source: Buck 1950, Speaker: Howartson Heinrich

n. long line for bottom fishing

Source: Lieber & Dikepa 1974,