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cut off

6 Kiribati words

• kororaka
  • Sabatier kororakati: cut off.
• koromanga
  • Sabatier to prune, to cut off branches.
• tirimanga
  • Sabatier v.t. tirimanga: to cut off branches, to lop.
• oka
  • Sabatier oka-tou, oka-mai, okababaia: to cut off fruit of pandanus, bread-fruit, papaw with long rod furnished with blade at end.
• taera
  • Sabatier taeraea, tataeraea: to take off, to take off what is useless, bad, to cut off dead wood, to correct books, compositions, to lop, to prune, to trim, to peel.
• unaririki
  • Sabatier unaririkia: to cut off shoots, palm leaves,... hair of future warrior leaving only a small tuft on crown of head (initiation ceremony), to denude of what has grown again.