change
31 Kiribati words
- onika
- Bingham change.
- Sabatier to transform, to change.
- kabo
- Sabatier change, exchange.
- rua
- Bingham to change, to alter, to succeed, to take the place of.
- onea
- Bingham change as of clothing.
- Sabatier (irr.) oneai, onoiko, onea, onoira, or oneira, onoingkami, onoia, oneaki, with direct object of each plural ono, oni, onoi one and onei: to change, to change oneself, to transform, to modify, to metamorphose.
- taeka
- Sabatier bita te taeka: to alter, change, deform the statements.
- Sabatier katua te taeka: to change the subject of conversation, to get away from subject.
- uana
- Bingham unchangeable.
- rurua n nano
- Sabatier rua: change.
- uauana
- Bingham remaining unchanged.
- karua
- Bingham to miss as a day, to change.
- onotabo
- Sabatier ono-tabo: to change place.
- raitara
- Sabatier to change aspect, to change...
- ewebai
- Sabatier to change from one thing to another.
- onobauta
- Sabatier to change ligature, to change the...
- onionika
- Bingham frequentative of onika change repeatedly.
- riaki
- Sabatier riaki: to tack, to turn about, to change sail.
- unora
- Sabatier to turn,... change a situation or state of affairs.
- bita
- Sabatier bibita, bitabita; to change, to modify, to invert.
- oniki
- Sabatier to transmute, to transfigure, to metamorphose, to change.
- tania
- Sabatier te tania ni bai: thing put aside, reserve, a change <spare>.
- baoua
- Sabatier bakaoua te taeka: change the meaning of the words, make a false report.
- ibibiti
- Sabatier ka-ibibiti, kakaibibiti: to change, to reverse, to invert, to exchange.
- bakarua
- Sabatier bakarua: to lose, to upset, to change place among disorder, to upset debris.
- maibi
- Sabatier te maibina, ua maibi: one, two fragments, pieces, bits, small pieces, small change (money).
- rume
- Sabatier variable, up and down, spark appearing and disappearing, changing form, intensity, changeable.
- tabaniban
- Sabatier kiritabaniban: to go sideways,... from side to side,... from one extreme to the other, changeable.
- tokobito
- Sabatier to find fault with everything, to change things, to disturb things, to meddle, to potter, to remake.
- onibora
- Sabatier onobora (oni-pora, onopora) to change, to shed shell, skin or carapace (as do crabs, lobsters, etc.), to slough.
- raira
- Sabatier to put upside down, to turn, to turn over, to turn around, to change opinion, to be converted, to translate, to transpose.
- tabitabita
- Sabatier to change (bita), turn an accusation against others (instigator, accessory, others), to exculpate oneself on others, to give tit for tat.
- kabwea
- Sabatier to hold the controls, to steer, to direct, to domineer (or) to turn the wheel, to turn about, to deform, to change, to disfigure the meaning, etc.
- katonu ara
- Sabatier to change or celebrate the changing of a name (Gilbertese custom) the changing is proclaimed aloud three times in face of the spirits of the four cardinal points and those of heaven and earth.