Entries from Lieber & Dikepa 1974 in Pollex-Online
Lieber, M. D. and K. H. Dikepa (1974). Kapingamarangi Lexicon. Honolulu, University Press of Hawaii.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Kapingamarangi | Bii/a | Splash v |
| Kapingamarangi | Bii/bii | Diarrhoea which escapes without one realizing it (as caused by eating oily fish) |
| Kapingamarangi | Bia/bia | Prepared food, raw soft breadfruit mixed with water |
| Kapingamarangi | Bigi | Paste v, stickiness, sticky |
| Kapingamarangi | Biga | Bent, curved |
| Kapingamarangi | Bilau | Stink v |
| Kapingamarangi | Bilibili | Octopus |
| Kapingamarangi | Bibi | Mollusc sp.: Asaphis arenosa |
| Kapingamarangi | Pono | To close, to plug up (e.g. a hole) |
| Kapingamarangi | Bida | Navel |
| Kapingamarangi | Bida | End |
| Kapingamarangi | Boo | Night |
| Kapingamarangi | Bongoo | Hole; door, house (polite) |
| Kapingamarangi | Bongo | Poor quality fruit |
| Kapingamarangi | Boogia | Held up, caught by a storm |
| Kapingamarangi | Phoko | Convex |
| Kapingamarangi | Pogo | To impress (shape something by impression); concave |
| Kapingamarangi | Bogo/bogo | Pushed out of shape, crumpled |
| Kapingamarangi | Bole | Tremble, vibrate, quake |
| Kapingamarangi | Bolo | According to, in order to, that |
| Kapingamarangi | Hai bolo | Say that |
| Kapingamarangi | Boloagi | To bequeath, to will; to appoint a guardian, to entrust to someone's care |
| Kapingamarangi | Bono/dia | Obstructed, plugged up |
| Kapingamarangi | Bobo | Rotten, decayed, old |
| Kapingamarangi | Podo, bodo/bodo | Short |
| Kapingamarangi | Bodo | Small, diminutive |
| Kapingamarangi | Bou | Mast (sail, ship); flag pole |
| Kapingamarangi | Bouli | Dark |
| Kapingamarangi | Buu | Sea shell other than bivalve, trumpet shell |
| Kapingamarangi | Bua | Plant sp.: Guettarda speciosa |
| Kapingamarangi | Boaga | Pig |
| Kapingamarangi | Buge | (Pisonia grandis) |
| Kapingamarangi | Haga/buni | To unite, to come together |
| Kapingamarangi | Bugu | Bulge v, joints of fingers and toes |
| Kapingamarangi | Bula | Glow, shine |
| Kapingamarangi | Bula/bula | Phosphorescence |
| Kapingamarangi | Bula | Bulging eyes ("bug-eyed" as a person who sees a ghost) |
| Kapingamarangi | Pula | To gape |
| Kapingamarangi | Bula/bula | To stare |
| Kapingamarangi | Bulaga | (Cyrtosperma chamissonis) . (Modern introduction, acording to Emory 1965:9,14.).) |
| Kapingamarangi | Bule | Forbid, prohibit |
| Kapingamarangi | Bulewe | Coral variety |
| Kapingamarangi | Bulou | Catch fish with a throwing net or a net with a long handle |
| Kapingamarangi | Bulu | Coconut husk fibre |
| Kapingamarangi | Bulu/bulu | Hold in one's arms, embrace |
| Kapingamarangi | Puni | Closed or joined tightly (as the blade to the handle of the adze) |
| Kapingamarangi | Buna | Bubble, glass float, balloon |
| Kapingamarangi | Buni | Joined |
| Kapingamarangi | Bui | Spit, spit out Phonologically Irregular |
| Kapingamarangi | Haga/budu | Collect things, gather |
