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mother

8 Kiribati words

• tina
  • Bingham a mother.
  • Sabatier (1) mother, adopted mother. te tina, tina: sister(s), nuns, religious.
• iteranaine
  • Bingham mother's relative.
• tinan na bawe
  • Sabatier an old shrivelled-up mother, old as Na Bawe.
• natina
  • Bingham to adopt as a son or daughter, to father, to mother.
• toba
  • Sabatier te tia toba: mother, wet nurse, woman in charge of baby.
• karona
  • Sabatier to consider and treat a person as one's own father or mother.
• tinana
  • Bingham to adopt or treat a woman as one's mother, to make a mother of.
• raun
  • Sabatier a shell fish biv., kind of white mother of pearl. penshell used to make fish hooks, etc.