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shallow

8 Kiribati words

• ora
  • Bingham shallow, shoal, not deep, low tide.
  • Sabatier an uncovered place, without water, sand bank, a shallow place.
• batano
  • Sabatier shallow, needing a heap of sand to cover; for ex. to heap sand over a hole where one has buried something because hole was not deep enough, appearing just over horizon.
• neinei
  • Bingham a shallow pool, pond.
• tabo n ora
  • Sabatier shallow place, extremity of foreshore.
• tataurake
  • Bingham to come up in great schools of fish into shallow water.
• mata nei
  • Sabatier a shallow stretch of water just in advance of rising tide.
• kararang
  • Bingham a very shallow and narrow channel on a flat only a few inches deep.
• namo
  • Sabatier a small lagoon, small lake, shallow water forming lake at low tide in certain parts of lagoon.