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 | Lele | Run, drive, ride |
| Kapingamarangi | Lemu | To slip out, e.g. from inside something |
| Kapingamarangi | Lee | Voice, sound |
| Kapingamarangi | Lebe | Flap in the wind (like a leaf) |
| Kapingamarangi | Leu | Ripen |
| Kapingamarangi | Lewe/lewe | Free fall through the air |
| Kapingamarangi | Lewelewe/ina | Spider web |
| Kapingamarangi | Liagi | Wave, wag, swing something in the hand, change clothes |
| Kapingamarangi | L/lingi/ | Pour |
| Kapingamarangi | Lii | Small head lice |
| Kapingamarangi | Lii | Small head lice |
| Kapingamarangi | Ligi | Small (used only in compounds) |
| Kapingamarangi | Riiri | Be angry |
| Kapingamarangi | Lili | Sizzle |
| Kapingamarangi | Lima | Five |
| Kapingamarangi | Lima | Hand, arm |
| Kapingamarangi | Liu | Seepage, leakage (e.g. water in a canoe), bilge water |
| Kapingamarangi | Liu, lui | To turn (a long horizontal object) |
| Kapingamarangi | Loo/adu | To go (plural) (toward hearer) |
| Kapingamarangi | Loo/moi | To come (plural) (toward speaker) |
| Kapingamarangi | Loo (pl. lloo) | Long (used only in compounds) |
| Kapingamarangi | Loo/loo | Long |
| Kapingamarangi | Loho | Fathom, measure v in fathoms |
| Kapingamarangi | L/longo | Line of (people, animals, things) |
| Kapingamarangi | Longo | Hear; news |
| Kapingamarangi | Longoaa | Be annoyed or disturbed by noise |
| Kapingamarangi | Lou | Pole with a hook, breadfruit picker |
| Kapingamarangi | Logi | Miserly, hoard v Problematic |
| Kapingamarangi | Lolo | Coconut cream, oil |
| Kapingamarangi | Doloo | Flood, flood tide Problematic |
| Kapingamarangi | Lloi | A mixture of soft breadfruit and coconut cream |
| Kapingamarangi | Lomi/lomi | Massage by squeezing the skin |
| Kapingamarangi | Luu/luu | To shake gently (e.g. baby's hammock or a bottle) |
| Kapingamarangi | Lodo | Inside, within |
| Kapingamarangi | Lodo | [In various idioms and compounds] |
| Kapingamarangi | Lodo dumaalia | Generous nature |
| Kapingamarangi | Lua/i | To spit up food (once) |
| Kapingamarangi | Lua | Hole, cave |
| Kapingamarangi | Lua/luai | Vomit |
| Kapingamarangi | Lua | Two |
| Kapingamarangi | Nua | Up, above Problematic |
| Kapingamarangi | Ligau | Stalk of the taro plant (edible in the Colocasia varieties); prepared food: taro stalk with coconut cream wrapped in taro leaves and cooked in the ground oven |
| Kapingamarangi | Ma- | Numeral classifier for digits over ten |
| Kapingamarangi | -mau | First person dual exclusive possessive suffix |
| Kapingamarangi | Maa | And, for |
| Kapingamarangi | Mae | Wither |
| Kapingamarangi | Moea | Very thick rope, especially as used for hauling whales (obs) |
| Kapingamarangi | Mahaa | Split |
| Kapingamarangi | Mahana | Warm, hot |
| Kapingamarangi | Mahi | Strength, power, energy |
