wood
29 Kiribati words
- kanni
- Sabatier wood, timber, trunk, lath of coconut tree.
- kai
- Sabatier wood, 2. instrument, 3. pain, 4. chastisement, punishment... 1. wood in general: trees, plants, stick, switch, rod, pointer, lath, piece. te kaina, uakai, teni kai, etc.
- ito
- Bingham driftwoodvery light, segments of it are used as pillows.
- Sabatier very light wood found on beaches and used as cork.
- rakuori
- Bingham logwood.
- aia
- Bingham firewood.
- maiango
- Bingham pine wood.
- korokai
- Bingham to cut wood.
- kani
- Bingham coconut wood.
- kaibeti
- Sabatier wood which floats.
- tabonikai
- Bingham a short piece of wood.
- kai tare
- Bingham name of a foreign wood.
- maoto
- Bingham fracture in wood or stone.
- kuia
- Bingham wood drifted to the islands.
- kwia
- Bingham wood drifted to the islands.
- ae
- Bingham general term for driftwoodetc.
- mamara
- Sabatier imported hard wood (mahogany).
- tabo ni kai
- Sabatier a small piece of timber, wood.
- tabono
- Sabatier te tabono ni kai: hard wood.
- itokai
- Bingham driftwoodsomewhat heavier than ito.
- maotoua
- Bingham broken in two, as wood or bone or metal.
- korokaia
- Bingham to denude more or less a land of its wood.
- ue
- Bingham ruffled as the hair in the wind, or as cross-grained wood.
- bau
- Sabatier wood or tree trunk hollowed out (used as rat trap or basket).
- anuti
- Sabatier white wood (imported in early days by traders in Gilbert Islands).
- kai n taibao
- Sabatier a block of wood used as mallet to hammer string bindings to secure them.
- maeai
- Sabatier soft wood, young tree or plant having soft wood, tender soft wood, or wood becoming decomposed.
- kai n taoata
- Sabatier an arched piece of wood fixed over the kai ni marawa and under which the ata (shroud) passes.
- kaikai
- ai
- Sabatier for counting certain categories; ex. matches, bottles, pieces of wood, big fish, tools, long objects; teaina, uai, tenai, ai, nimai, oneai, itiai, wanai, ruai, tengaun: one, two, three, etc. <(N.) -- tg>.