stone
51 Kiribati words
- atikika
- Bingham red stone on the ocean beach.
- Bingham abounding in atikaka red stones.
- Sabatier a brown stone colour of octopus (kika).
- atinikana
- Bingham flat stone used in a heathen rite for the purpose of giving strength and courage.
- Bingham abounding in atinikana stones.
- Sabatier flat stone on which young men were seated in order to be submitted to the trial by fire in initiation for courage.
- nari
- Bingham smooth stone.
- Sabatier (2) te nari: a hard smooth stone resembling granite used as posts for maneaba.
- uan
- Bingham pumice stone.
- Sabatier pumice stone.
- atiem
- Bingham soft coral stone.
- Sabatier a porous stone.
- atibu
- Bingham general word for stone.
- Bingham abounding in stones.
- mangiewe
- Bingham coral rock or stone harder than kara:
- Sabatier a kind of coral stone.
- ati
- Bingham stone heated for bakeing.
- Sabatier block of coral, rock, stone, islet.
- atibaba
- Bingham place abounding in stones.
- Sabatier large stone, (flat) ati rababa.
- em
- Bingham coral stone used in rasping.
- Sabatier a coral stone, porous, soft and light.
- atinro
- Bingham stone used as an anchor, an anchor.
- Sabatier stone used as anchor, anchor.
- atia
- Bingham cover over a fire with bakeing stones.
- Sabatier a certain stone used as file, plane.
- innaba
- Bingham cut a groove or mark in a stone or plank.
- Bingham groove or mark cut in a stone or plank.
- atinono
- Bingham stone used by a squid in closing his hole.
- Sabatier stone which the octopus puts at the entrance of its den as protection.
- ikiku
- Bingham stone mallet.
- atibe
- Sabatier compact stone.
- atibara
- Bingham soft coral stone.
- atirababa
- Sabatier large flat stone.
- atibana
- Sabatier soft porous stone.
- atimata
- Bingham small coral stone.
- atikona
- Sabatier soft easily broken stone.
- maoto
- Bingham fracture in wood or stone.
- aia
- Bingham pile or lay as a stone wall.
- mangieuete
- Sabatier a sharp pointed coral stone.
- atibung
- Bingham stone sinker used in fishing.
- atitai
- Sabatier fire stone, giving out sparks.
- banari
- Sabatier hard, smooth stone like granite.
- na
- Bingham loose rocks or stones on a flat.
- atintarawa
- Sabatier sinker, good stone for fish line.
- atau
- Bingham stone used in the game of kabane.
- kora
- Sabatier seed, stone, core (of fruit), seeds.
- atitei
- Sabatier stone standing up, sticking out of water.
- ma
- Bingham low stone wall on a flat for catching fish.
- atintaotao
- Sabatier stone or rock for weighing down line or net.
- buto
- Sabatier navel, boundary stone, centre of a whirlpool.
- atimaiu
- Sabatier coral stone of recent formation (living stone).
- mama
- Bingham easily broken as stone, easily crumbling, soft.
- bai n taitaim
- Sabatier a sharpening stone, a grind stone, a whet stone.
- ingunako
- Bingham fall to pieces as a pandanus fruit or stone wall.
- atibakoua
- Sabatier kind of concave coral stone (bako or bakoaua).
- nimatoro
- Sabatier (1) coral stone grooved like underneath of mushroom.
- baenata
- Bingham a collection of stones used in entrapping fish <fsg>.
- bakoua
- Sabatier concave, coral stone; te ati bakoua: basin shaped stone.
- enga
- Sabatier stone or coral rock giving out a bad smell found on some beaches.
- karebana
- Sabatier to throw stones with a sling, to stone, to throw things at..., on...
- atiati
- Sabatier anchor stone, fishing, product of fishing, fish taken at one anchorage.
- atibokaboka
- Sabatier stone found in the mud of Buariki, Tarawa, and which is fire resisting.
- ikanikabara
- Bingham fish caught in deep water with a line which is sunk by a stone to be released.
- wae ni ma
- Bingham a low stone wall running toward the shore from a ma by which to run fish into it.
- ikantaotao
- Bingham fish caught with a fish-hook and line anchored with a little stone in the bottom of a channel where a current is running.
- atinikatoka
- Sabatier 1. a flat stone used as table on which were placed items of sorcery, gifts, necklaces, etc.; also used for hiding such things when leaving.