four
24 Kiribati words
- aung
- Bingham four, in counting pandanus fruit.
- Sabatier four (when counting pandanus fruit).
- Sabatier a-iri: four, when counting the separate segments.
- aba
- Bingham four, in counting leafves.
- Sabatier four (for counting leaves).
- aman
- Bingham four, in counting persons and animals.
- Sabatier four (for counting living things).
- aua
- Bingham four, the general word for four, ua being suffix.
- Sabatier four (root a).
- akai
- Bingham four, in counting trees, fishhooks, and sections of land.
- Sabatier four (for counting trees, pieces of land, fish hooks, etc.).
- a
- Bingham 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,.
- Sabatier root of the num. adj. meaning four (4), the suff. being either a kind as for example, a-ua, a-kai; or a simple noun.
- ai
- Bingham four.
- aai
- Bingham four, in counting hardware, furniture, chests, barrels, timbers, fingers, teeth, cocoanut-leaf stems, large fish, as sharks and ikari.
- akora
- Bingham four baskets.
- Sabatier four (used for counting baskets, songs).
- anga
- Bingham four fathoms, four thousand.
- Bingham four fathoms, four thousand.
- kaaua
- Bingham fourth.
- abubua
- Bingham four hundred.
- aea
- Bingham four million.
- atoki
- Bingham four hundred million.
- akuri
- Bingham four hundred thousand.
- boang
- Sabatier boangia: cut in four.
- otorake
- Bingham line with four strands.
- nang
- Sabatier four (when counting by two's.
- moaniwi
- Bingham four front teeth of both jaws.
- otorakea
- Bingham braid a line with four strands.
- toatoa
- Bingham having four sides, as a gin bottle.
- kaua
- Sabatier ka-aua: the fourth, make four, quarter.
- bwena
- Sabatier bwenangia: to split in four bwena te iranatu: to part the hair.
- uoua
- Bingham two, in counting things in generalfour in counting by twos two twos.