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short

17 Kiribati words

• kimototo
  • Bingham short.
  • Sabatier short, brief.
• kororo
  • Sabatier short, too short, incomplete, bandy legged.
• koti
  • Sabatier short, curtailed, thick set, too short, cut short.
• kimotoitoi
  • Bingham very short.
  • Sabatier very short.
• kom
  • Bingham falling short, too short as a beam.
  • Sabatier komkom, takomkom: to cease abruptly, to hide, to escape, to be missing, to be short.
• nikutaretare
  • Bingham provided with short connections for an outrigger.
  • Bingham too short, as a person, to reach something high up.
• korora
  • Sabatier too short.
• banebaneieta
  • Bingham too short, as a skirt.
• kakororoa
  • Bingham to make short as a skirt.
• aribuni
  • Bingham short as a coconut spathe.
• bo baka
  • Sabatier cut low, too short, fall short.
• kawaeribono
  • Bingham to engage in taking short steps.
• kikimototo
  • Bingham frequentative of kimototo short.
• wibuni
  • Bingham having teeth which are unusually short.
• tare
  • Bingham too short to reach, not sufficient as food.
• taeare
  • Sabatier short of provisions, exhausted, ruined, reduced to misery.
• uriri
  • Sabatier te kawai ni kauriri: a short cut, path through the forest, in the bush, parallel with road, where fewer people are met to retard one's progress.