old
28 Kiribati words
- tawa
- Sabatier old, very old.
- kara
- Sabatier old, aged, elderly.
- kawai
- Sabatier old, ancient, antique.
- nikawai
- Bingham old, not fresh, not new.
- karongo
- Sabatier old, faded, sour, rancid.
- nabawe
- Sabatier old, antique, out of date, desuetude, archaic.
- bawe
- Sabatier old, ancient, old as Na Bawe, of Na Bawe's time.(N).
- uere
- Sabatier old, blighted, shrunken, shrivelled up (persons, plants).
- unimane
- Bingham old man, elder.
- Sabatier an elderly respectable man, an old man, personage of rank or title.
- unaine
- Bingham old woman.
- urantina
- Sabatier colour of old teeth <tooth>.
- mane
- Sabatier used, worn, old, shabby, faded.
- kakara
- Bingham to grow old (preceded by aki).
- tinanaka
- Sabatier old as Naka, old as the hills.
- buangang
- Sabatier smelling stale, old, spoiled (food).
- ikutaia
- Sabatier a dwarf, a very old man (hard skin).
- ikawai
- Sabatier fully developed, adult, ancient, old.
- wewe
- Sabatier te ikawai ewewe: really old person.
- ikawaiwewe
- Bingham too old for sap as a spathe <coconut>.
- are
- Sabatier te Tetamenti are ngkoa: the Old Testament.
- maiawa
- Sabatier arokan Maiawa: old, very old like Maiawa.
- tinan na bawe
- Sabatier an old shrivelled-up mother, old as Na Bawe.
- benu
- Bingham old and decayed as a canoe worn out, unseaworthy.
- ikawai ewewe
- Sabatier 1. one who has outlived those of his age, very old.
- manrea
- Sabatier common, vulgar, out of date, old fashioned, grown old.
- aine
- Sabatier te toki n aine: middle aged woman te unaine: old woman.
- rimoa
- Sabatier first, precedent, anterior, antecedent, more ancient, older.
- tina ni kora
- Sabatier body undeveloped, but hardened by work, old and hard, tough, stunted tree of hard wood.