lift
37 Kiribati words
- ieta
- Bingham lift, as the cover of a basket, or the lid of a chest.
- Sabatier ieieta: to lift up, to raise up (as lid), to hold up (dress, mosquito net), to raise, to lift up.
- tabeka
- Bingham to lift up, to take up.
- Sabatier to raise up, to elevate, to carry, to lift up.
- euta
- Bingham lift the foot as in walking.
- Sabatier eueuta: to raise or lift gradually; raising, throwing up, taking out in small quantities.
- taebaia
- Bingham to lift up and carry a canoe.
- Sabatier to lift up by hand, all together.
- uma
- Bingham started, moved as a rock lifted a little in the middle as a mat spread out.
- Sabatier kauma, kaumauma: to make roof shaped, to lift up one side with crow-bar, to make dome shaped,... arched, tunnelled.
- mwemwe
- Bingham liftable.
- mwemweka
- Bingham lift away.
- kamemea
- Bingham to lift up.
- kamwemwea
- Bingham to lift up.
- ieieta
- Bingham lift up as a curtain.
- eu
- Sabatier eu, eueu, to lift up.
- kaeka
- Sabatier to lift up head, eye). ka-eka.
- tei
- Sabatier katei-bai: to lift arms, hands.
- kamwemwe
- Sabatier kamwemwea: to raise, to lift up.
- ing
- Bingham start or move as an object to be lifted.
- mwemwerake
- Sabatier ka-mwemwerakea: to lift up, to heave up.
- nebo
- Bingham raised, lifted up, exalted, severe as pain.
- maua nako
- Sabatier ma'ua: to lift, to act together in unison.
- kauabaia
- Sabatier to get two to lift or carry a load or burden.
- taura
- Sabatier to lift up a little, to raise..., or to hang up.
- mwe
- Sabatier ka-mwe, kamwemwea: to raise, to lift, to heave.
- urake
- Sabatier kaurakea: to throw up in the air, to lift up...
- kai n tawakai
- Sabatier kaintawakaia: to lift with lever or put weight on.
- rieta
- Sabatier ka-rieta, ka-rietata: to elevate, to lift up, to raise.
- ingirake
- Sabatier ka-ingirakea: to lift up a little, to carry, to push up.
- kateiranga
- Sabatier to lift the legs or knees when standing, sitting or lying.
- kakanauki
- Bingham to lift or rise frequently as an outrigger out of the water.
- kamananga
- Bingham to start people on their way to lift up a rock with a crowbar.
- taebaeba
- Bingham to lift off or up. as the wind does a roof-cap or a side screen.
- waetebe
- Sabatier waetebetebe: to lift one leg and throw it forward when walking.
- e
- Sabatier to a number of compound words meaning to raise, to lift, to heave.
- umauma
- Bingham arched over, branched over, lifted up as the center of a sleeping mat.
- irake
- Sabatier irakea: to hoist, to lift up, to raise; irakea te ie: hoist up the sail.
- tamwemwe
- Sabatier to rise up, to lift a little (for ex. outrigger float of canoe just out of water).
- u
- Sabatier to most words beginning with u meaning up, upwards, lifting up, rising <rise> up.
- katea
- Sabatier kakatea: to raise, to lift up, to put standing up, to establish, to build, to set up.
- uti
- Sabatier to get up, to swell, to lift up, to wake up, to raise up, to stand on end, to be awake, to be up, lifted up, swollen.