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 |
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Kapingamarangi | Hula | Go (pl.) |
Kapingamarangi | Huli | Turn, twist, change |
Kapingamarangi | Hulu | Hair |
Kapingamarangi | Huna/huna | Obliterate, erase, smash |
Kapingamarangi | Huna | Breadfruit core |
Kapingamarangi | Hudaa | Group of things approaching together (e.g. a fleet of canoes) |
Kapingamarangi | Hudi | Pull v. |
Kapingamarangi | Hudi | Musa paradisiaca and musa nana . (Recent introductions, according to Emory 1965.) |
Kapingamarangi | -nga | Gerundive suffix |
Kapingamarangi | Haga/ngaengae | Dying, almost dead |
Kapingamarangi | Ngaagau | Rectum |
Kapingamarangi | Ngaaga | South, southerly (from the islets); northward with respect to the reef from near the channel |
Kapingamarangi | Ngogo | Brain, egg |
Kapingamarangi | N/ngali/ | To eat by repetitive small bites |
Kapingamarangi | Haga/n/ngolo | Snore |
Kapingamarangi | Ngala | Loss, lost; disappeared; death |
Kapingamarangi | Ngolu | Large wave |
Kapingamarangi | Ngalua | To move |
Kapingamarangi | Ngalua | To work |
Kapingamarangi | Ngalulu | To rattle around (inside something), to slosh |
Kapingamarangi | Ngooh/ia | Easy, easily |
Kapingamarangi | Ngahingahi | Old or worn out sarong, rag |
Kapingamarangi | Ngadaa | Difficult |
Kapingamarangi | Hai ngoohia | Easy (to do), easily done |
Kapingamarangi | Ngaadai | Lagoonward, westward |
Kapingamarangi | Ngaadahi | Together, both |
Kapingamarangi | Ngaadi | Skull |
Kapingamarangi | Ngii | Whistle, chirp (of a bird), squeak |
Kapingamarangi | Nguu/nguu | Mumble, mutter |
Kapingamarangi | Nguu | Squid |
Kapingamarangi | Ngungu | Chew, masticate solids which make noise |
Kapingamarangi | Mad/angaholu | Ten |
Kapingamarangi | Ngudu | Mouth, prow (of canoe), foreshaft (of spear) |
Kapingamarangi | Aha | What? |
Kapingamarangi | Anga | Unit of measure, span |
Kapingamarangi | Ai | Who? |
Kapingamarangi | Agau | Reef |
Kapingamarangi | Aga | Upwards from below |
Kapingamarangi | Agu | Needle fish |
Kapingamarangi | Ala | Road, path |
Kapingamarangi | Ama | Outrigger float |
Kapingamarangi | Ana(a) | There |
Kapingamarangi | Abi | Fish sp., tang, Acanthurus guttatus |
Kapingamarangi | Ina | To shine a light |
Kapingamarangi | Ingoo | Name |
Kapingamarangi | Onge | Lone, solitary Uncertain Semantic Connection |
Kapingamarangi | Ogo | Rafter |
Kapingamarangi | Oko | Husk, as coconuts |
Kapingamarangi | Uu | Breast |
Kapingamarangi | Uii | Pick Pandanus fruit |