To use as bait, to choose a certain bait. large country, the first to be created by Na Areau (myth.). place where body stays when soul leaves for land of the dead.Ībatoa. te I-abatera, kain abatera, manin abatera: a stranger whose country is unknown, who excites curiosity. aba tera? what country? unknown country.Įx. ( Kama: Southern Cross Teba: a star.).Ībatera. steep cliff, sloping country, far to the south, land of Ka:ma and Nei Teba, ancient ancestors. discovered by Barney in 1823-24.Ībatáningo. an island of the Phoenix Group, formerly used as an air base on Trans-Pacific route.
mythical submerged shoal, path of departed soul to land of the dead, after leaving refuge of Abatiku.Ībariringa. te akawa i abari: good fishing ground.Ībari 1. Slimy, soft marine animal, clinging to the rocks on the flat.Ībari. kam na abana te abanuea: you shall possess the kingdom. To inherit, to take possession of land or country.Įx. te abakati n I Matang: half European.Ībamakoro. halfcaste, European or Chinese (mixed race) (ENG).Įx. Used without the pronoun prefix in a statement in which abakaei is the predicate.Ībakati. ka-ababaka: to enlarge, make bigger, etc.Īn island of the group situated in the north, discovered by Gilbert and Marshall, 20th June, 1788. greatness, largeness, great height of a man. te aba ni batike: land or place where a person found sanctuary or refuge from an enemy.Ībaaba. te aba ni kakua: land given or received in gratitude for assistance.Įx. te aba te bora: land given or received on account of a certain ancient custom (a woman putting a wreath of flowers around the neck of an uncle (distant) of her husband during a public assembly).Įx. te aba n nebonebo: land given or received in compensation for a murder.Įx. te aba n tangira: land given or received as a gift.Įx. te aba n utu: land inherited or land of a family.Įx. country, land, earth, world, property.Įx. four, in counting hardware, furniture, chests, barrels, timbers, fingers, teeth, cocoanut-leaf stems, large fish, as sharks and ikari.Ība. e amarake te katama i an te taibora: the cat eats under the table. te antari: distant relatives, distant relative.Įx. an te taeka: hidden meaning of a word.įig. e riai n antaeka te aine iroun te mane: woman must be subject to man.įig. antaeka (aan taeka), anibana (aa ni bana): to be subject, yield, submit.Įx. aanan, aanakin: the act of supporting, being supported.įig. ni kabara: sea bottom favourable for shark fishing. an te Ekaretia Petero: Peter is the foundation of the church. aan te: the underneath, the bottom, the base, the groundwork, the foundation.Įx. te aa ni kanimatu, te aa ni matu: a sleepy yawn.Į ka-aa-nako: he is yawning, beginning to yawn, he is not interested.Īa 12. (the core is cooked, minced, dried in the sun and ground beforehand.).Ī small wooden tool used to shape the mesh in making fishing nets.Īa 10. a-bwi (40), a-ngaun, a-bubua,a-nga, a-mirion.Ī kind of flour, kabubu, made from the pandanus fruit and mixed with the core of the fruit as well as the pulp.Ī food prepared from a mixture of the core of pandanus fruit and syrup of toddy. indicating tens, hundreds, thousands, millions:Įx.
being either a kind as for example, a-ua, a-kai or a simple noun. Preceding verbs to show an immediate past or future and sometimes to express the result of an action or a state attained.
It is joined to the root word either directly or by the intermediary of an i or an e or by redoubling of the preceding consonant or redoubling itself. four, always followed by a numeral suffix, ai, ua, ung, man, na, kai, kora, or by a certain noun as bong, ririki, ritoro, inaki, atao, ba, or by certain adjectives as bwi, bubua, etc.Ī. stick used in netweaving for measuring the meshes.Ī. in this case it is always followed by the predicate.Ī sign of the perfect tense, or of action just completed, often used to express a future immediate action.Īffirmative particle much like am, are, is, etc. him, her, it, a suffix pronoun following an active transitive verb, usually united to the root by i. Bishop Museum, Honolulu.Ī B E I K M N NG O R T U W expanded display aĪ. Bishop Museum Bulletin 213, v, 129pp, map, bibl 122-4, index, 26cm. prepared under contract SA-43-ph-3741, National Institute of Neurological Diseas. A Preliminary Compilation of Gilbertese Animal and Plant Names. South Pacific Commission Publications Bureau, Sydney. Mission Catholique, GI, Abaiang, Tabwiroa. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Boston. With additional scientific material from Luomala, Goo & Banner.ī - Bingham, Hiram. A Combined Kiribati-English Dictionary based on the works of
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