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95 Kiribati words
- makoro
- Bingham cut, wound.
- Bingham cut, gashed.
- Sabatier a cut, incision, section, fraction, part, chapter. te makorona, uamakoro,tenimakoro, etc.
- korea
- Bingham to cut.
- Sabatier irr. korokorea: to cut, to carve, to cut up, to make an incision, to engrave, to inscribe, to operate, etc.
- tati
- Bingham cut, wounded.
- Sabatier steepness, abruptness, steep cut,... precipitous, perpendicular, clear cut, cut straight, sheer.
- korobauta
- Bingham cut, as the lashings of an outrigger.
- Sabatier (1) formerly to cut the string attaching outrigger (in part only) so as to cause an accident at sea (dissimulated vengeance) or to cut string altogether (open vengeance).
- korokoro
- Sabatier a cut, surgical operation.
- korobuaka
- Bingham unevenly cut.
- Bingham to cut unevenly, as the hair.
- Sabatier korobuakaa: idem., to cut badly.
- bakatati
- Bingham evenly cut.
- Sabatier bakatatia: to cut straight, to crop straight.
- korokai
- Bingham to cut wood.
- Sabatier to cut wood, to cut down trees.
- koroba
- Bingham to cut leaves.
- Sabatier to cut leaves, coconut branches.
- koroua
- Bingham to cut in twain.
- Sabatier koroua: to cut in two.
- kororabaro
- Bingham to cut the hair short just above the forehead.
- Sabatier a style of hair cut.
- kana ni kimoa
- Sabatier kananikimoa: to cut badly (hair, cloth, etc.).
- Bingham cropped unevenly, unevenly cut.
- koromaneka
- Bingham to cut steps in a coconut tree.
- Sabatier to cut steps in coconut tree to facilitate climbing (especially for toddy-cutting).
- korobaro
- Bingham to have the hair cut across the forehead.
- Sabatier hair cut with fringe on forehead.
- boua
- Bingham to split, or cut into halves, as a coconut or babai.
- Sabatier to cut in two, to throw down violently.
- innaba
- Bingham cut a groove or mark in a stone or plank.
- Bingham groove or mark cut in a stone or plank.
- korobai
- Bingham to cut the fastenings of coconuts tied together.
- Sabatier to cut branches, arms, legs, hands, wings, etc.
- korora
- Bingham cut bias.
- makoroua
- Sabatier cut in two.
- tae ua
- Sabatier cut in two.
- bwerewa
- Sabatier to cut in...
- korotobibi
- Bingham to cut around.
- ninikoro
- Sabatier cut up, carved.
- korobitia
- Bingham to cut in pieces.
- taitai
- Sabatier to tattoo, to cut.
- korikarewe
- Bingham to cut for karewe.
- korobua
- Sabatier to cut short (hair).
- ikoaki
- Bingham bruised, wounded, cut.
- korobanni
- Sabatier to cut coconut leaves.
- koroira
- Sabatier to cut hair, to shear.
- boang
- Sabatier boangia: cut in four.
- boniba
- Sabatier boniba: to cut notch.
- kama kewea
- Sabatier to cut in small pieces.
- tarikeke
- Bingham cut somewhat obliquely.
- makorokoro
- Bingham cut into several pieces.
- takoro
- Sabatier to cut a little, to cut out.
- bo
- Sabatier bo-niba: cut notches, holes.
- bo baka
- Sabatier cut low, too short, fall short.
- katarikekea
- Bingham vt tarikeke to cut obliquely.
- korobiti
- Sabatier to cut with knife or iron tool.
- tarin
- Sabatier e a tarin: it is cut, cut up.
- boriki
- Sabatier to cut open germinated coconuts.
- korobuai
- Sabatier to cut or shave beard, to shave.
- korokorea
- Bingham frequentative of korea to cut.
- babu
- Sabatier cut short, cut close, flat nosed.
- kabobuaka
- Bingham to cut or plant in a crooked line.
- korobuatingiting
- Bingham to cut the hair exceedingly short.
- kaewaewa
- Bingham to cut into long slices as babai.
- bwerewaea
- Bingham to cut into slices a pandanus fruit.
- katati
- Sabatier a vertical cut, abrupt, steep cliff.
- katamwemwea
- Bingham to cut unevenly the eaves of a house.
- kororo
- Bingham cut too short, as a skirt or trousers.
- tanganangana
- Bingham cut and slashed with a butu or knife.
- erea
- Sabatier erea, ererea: to lop, to cut, to trim.
- kore
- Sabatier to cut (signification in compound words).
- kororekea
- Sabatier v.t. tirirekea: to cut the bonds, ties.
- ere
- Sabatier to lop branches, to trim, to prune, to cut.
- tiri ba
- Sabatier to lop branches, to prune, to trim, to cut.
- bakatatia
- Bingham to cut off evenly the hair in front or behind.
- kororarai
- Sabatier to cut so as to get out a dart, sting (wete).
- bonne
- Sabatier 1. to make markings to cut out a sail, a costume.
- nimakorokoro
- Sabatier of makoro. cut in pieces (as some islands are).
- tenia
- Sabatier bo-tenia, bwe-tenia: twist, weave, cut in three.
- tiriam
- Sabatier to cut down dry palm leaves, to prune young trees.
- tamwemwe
- Bingham cut unskillfully, or too short, as eaves of thatch.
- ena
- Sabatier to be conformed to model, to copy, to cut to pattern.
- bwerebwere
- Sabatier bwerebwerea: to cut in very thin slices. (S.) copra.
- bomaneka
- Sabatier to cut notches on coconut trunk to facilitate climbing.
- ake
- Sabatier to card, to comb, to cut to pieces, to hackle, to strip.
- mte
- Bingham reduced to small pieces by cutting as a plug of tobacco.
- tata
- Sabatier tatanako: to cut, to carve, to cut notches, to indent.
- korotati
- Sabatier korotatia: to cut distinctly, straight, evenly, to a T.
- boroaea
- Bingham to cut the edible part of pandanus fruit into thin slices.
- taba
- Sabatier taba, ta bia, tabaki: to cut, to split, to sharpen point.
- taewa
- Sabatier kataewa, kataewaewa: to cut, to chop, to split in pieces.
- korotaba
- Sabatier korotaba:: to cut, to plane, to sharpen (pencils, points).
- oka
- Bingham cut off pandanus fruit with a blade fastened to a long stick.
- butika
- Sabatier butika: to cut down the fruit by cutting upwards with knife.
- ninimakoro
- Sabatier freq. of makoro very much cut, carved, slashed, full of cuts.
- bweroa
- Sabatier idem. to cut in thin slices, to slice off to a point, to pare.
- niba
- Sabatier a small trench, small hollow in soil, notch, cut, mortise, nick.
- kaewa
- Sabatier kaewaewa to cut taro in sections lengthwise (lengthwise sections).
- beke
- Sabatier korea bekena, ewara bekena: to cut or stab throat,, to bleed animal.
- kara
- Bingham to scrape, to cut with a draw knife or spoke shave, to grave or groove.
- onanibwere
- Sabatier onanibwerea: to make a notch or cut the end to join on another piece.
- burae
- Sabatier buburae; koroburae: to pluck feathers, hair; to shear, to cut wool, hair, etc.
- tirireke
- Sabatier v.t. (1) tirirekea: to cut, to slice off what holds: roots, ties, bonds, fetters.
- baku
- Sabatier ka bakua: to cut the head off, to cut the neck of, to behead (person), to truncate.
- e
- Bingham lay or place a line on the ground to be used as a pattern in cutting or fitting a sail.
- uaitera
- Sabatier to do by halves <half>, to cut, divide, or separate in two, to make two equal parts, etc.
- eremao
- Sabatier to cut down mao trees (a useless shrub, salt bush), to clear land of this noxious plant.
- koro
- Sabatier koro, korokoro: to cut, to make an incision, to inscribe, to operate, to cut out, to engrave.
- ba
- Sabatier te ba: cut off (with knife) the outside edges of midrib of palm leaf to make it even and utilizable.
- takaere
- Sabatier takaerere. to cut, to hit, to strike out in all directions, to struggle with flapping tail as shark, eels, etc., when caught.
- uriri
- Sabatier te kawai ni kauriri: a short cut, path through the forest, in the bush, parallel with road, where fewer people are met to retard one's progress.