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hesitating

6 Kiribati words

• tikimaurekaki
  • Bingham hesitating, or interrupted in doing.
• nanomaiti
  • Sabatier hesitating in choice, perplexity, perplexed.
• barakaraka
  • Sabatier teibarakaraka: to be hesitating, without initiative, waiting.
• baikuikui
  • Sabatier babaikuikui: hesitating (hands), slow to act, to throw, to touch.
• teibarakaraka
  • Bingham hesitating to do, because of the want of means as in entertaining strangers.
• mataua
  • Bingham hesitating to fire or throw at lest a person somewhat in the range be accidentally hit, hindered from doing by the presence of one in the way.