Topics

Family and people

Kinship, relatives and ways of referring to people.

221 Kiribati words

• a him, her, it, a suffix pronoun following an active transitive verb,…
• ai flint lock musket.
• antarira distant relatives.
• antinoia child who persistently refuses to be separated from its mother.
• arinai fish.
• arinaitokoman family Labridae (ll).
• ataei child, children.
• aua hour (ENG).
• auakurere family Mugilidae (ll).
• auaririki family Mugilidae (ll).
• auma parent.
• baba foolish, destitute of reason, wanting in umderstanding, weak in…
• babako to lie as an infant in the arms or lap of a person.
• babakoa to hold, as a child in the arms.
• babatua a roach.
• bain aine 1. women's clothes.
• bainataei an incantation over a child.
• bainataeia to practice incantations over a child.
• bakainea to neglect one's parent.
• bakake to engage in ill treating a foster child.
• bakara ill treatment of a foster child.
• bakatibu an ancestor.
• baneriki a fish, the.
• baronga a tribe.
• batua a large shell fish, the.
• beia ma te kai name of twin ancestors often taken for one person. <myth>.
• beti a section of the pandanus fruit from which the pulp has been removed…
• bina the youngest child in a family.
• binakeke the youngest in a family.
• binarererake the youngest in a family when precocious.
• bitanikie exchange of wives.
• bouru the spirit-land.
• bu a spouse when followed by the suffix pronoun, a relative when…
• bubu a fish, the.
• bubuawai a fish, a variety of the bubu.
• bubukea to spur a little child to bravery.
• bubukirikiri a fish, a variety of the bubu.
• buburaete a fish, a variety of the bubu.
• bubutakawaru a fish, a variety of the bubu.
• bubuwiura a fish, a variety of the bubu.
• bukinikoro the last child.
• buna to have as a spouse, to be husband or wife to.
• bunanti family or crowd of spirits (anti).
• butika a parent of a son or daughter-in-law.
• butika roko a brother in law coming around too often.
• butika te aba a sociable, reasonable brother in law.
• butikatengea an untractable brother in law, not affable, hard to deal with.
• butikatoka to have illicit intercourse with a butika.
• eiriki man's sister-in-law, woman's brother-in-law.
• eirikia seduce a wife's sister.
• eremao to cut down mao trees (a useless shrub, salt bush), to clear land of…
• iein live together as husband and wife, marry.
• ikabaebae game or sport in which something is hidden in the sand to be sought…
• ikiku stone mallet.
• ikuku Nei Ikuku: wife of the moon (of the mallet).
• imamano greetings to a relative or friend home from a voyage.
• ina seek in marryiage.
• inai coconut leaf mat.
• inaito slow in growth, backward in growth.
• itamaomao friendly relations, agreeing well, cordial affection, mutual help,…
• itaritari to behave as brothers or sisters.
• iterabuaka sorcery for vengeance, enmity.
• iteranaine mother's relative.
• iteranimane father's relative.
• kaburoronteun an ancestor, a warrior.
• kaiai a coconut tree in the third stage.
• kainaba a spouse, a husband's sister.
• kainroua to betroth one's child.
• kakawakawa frequentative of kawakawa.
• kamane kie to lend a wife or concubine.
• kamauamarakea to suffer a child to be too eager for food.
• kamaurea to charge a child with being ill-mannered.
• kana okoro kept apart, isolated, unique, alone, solitary.
• kanaokoro an only child, an animal or person walking along alone.
• kaneati a fish-hook of mother of pearl.
• kanikira to marry a near relative.
• kaniko to cry much or habitually.
• kanoa n aine child of a sister, or aunt, relative by female descent.
• kanoanaine a sister's child.
• kanoanimane a brother's child.
• kantoa myth. per. kind of giant, son of Nao and Neiko, husband of Nei…
• kaobunang an anti, dwarf or child.
• kaongeaba to teach a child obedience.
• kaongotaeka to teach a child obedience.
• kaonibora to suffer a child to play in the dirt.
• kaotabaea to care for a child kindly.
• kaotaota to feed a child with otaota.
• karikira not well formed as a child.
• karimoa the eldest in a family, an older child.
• karimwi a younger child.
• karinuka the second in a family of three, the middle child.
• karirimata to select a wife for one's son.
• karo a parent.
• karoa to fish for the inai.
• karoaroa frequentative of karoa to carry frequently as a child on the shoulder.
• karokaro to care for one's parents.
• katoro buaka preliminary agreements for battle, to put troops in position.
• katuna to urge one's daughter to accept an offer.
• kauauamoa to make a child disagreeable by not restraining it.
• kaukinana to allow a young child to eat out the kernel of a coconut with its…
• kauoman to practice bigamy.
• kaure separated as man and wife.
• kautabo the southern word for butika.
• kawanakoa to permit a child to creep.
• keti a flying-fish.
• kimai to come near.
• kinerang the smallest in size among brothers.
• kiroro the ocean near the horizon as seen from the land.
• koro a stick for husking coconut, a javelin.
• koroutu divided as family against family.
• kuanga parent, member of a family which one helps, loves or is loved by. a…
• kuau a fish, the.
• kuia wood drifted to the islands.
• kuku the carrying of a child on the back.
• kunibo grey colour as in pearl shell.
• kurukuru moray eel.
• mabiao well provided for as a family wirh food <soc>.
• maeko family Acanthuridae (ll).
• mama ashamed, abashed.
• maman frequentative of man.
• mamarake express outward affection as a child.
• mamatauna frequentative of matauna choose a wife for one's self.
• mane brother of a sister, or a sister of a brother.
• maneaba council-housee, church, chapel.
• marae playground.
• maroro converse, engage in conversation.
• mata eye, face.
• matamata conference with one's own family in reference to a proposed betrothal.
• matang the white man's country.
• matanoko Nei Matanoko daughter of Komaki and Nei Nautonga (one of the three…
• matauna look out for watch,.
• materongabu a large family of ancestors and descendants <genealogy?>.
• matuaoa feed a child when half asleep, esp at night.
• merimeri infant.
• moanriki begin to sprout or grow.
• mtamta call to a cat, like pussy, pussy.
• nabea nourish tenderly, as a child.
• nano n ataei childish, puerile, acting like a child.
• nanonimatang determined to be like white men.
• nanoro dark-mindded.
• nanoutu family spirit, clannish, nepotism, infatuated with one's family,…
• nati a child, son, daughter, nephew, niece.
• nati n ataei a child born of young parents.
• nati ni kara a child born of elderly parents.
• nati ni marae a bastard, illegitimate child (abandoned more or less).
• nati ni mate an orphan child.
• natina to adopt as a son or daughter, to father, to mother.
• natinimarae a child left to provide for himself, a bastard.
• natinimate orphan.
• nenebo to hold land taken by a relative of a murdered man as a recompense.
• nibaenenea to treat a child with forethought by providing food for it in a…
• nibarara Nei Nibarara: blind woman (wife of the moon).
• nikataratara a bivalvular shellfish, the.
• nikuau family Serranidae.
• nimanini a small fish,the.
• niniwana intelligent, precocious child, learns easily, bright pupil.
• niribariba (Acanthuridae sp.). young surgeon fish.
• nrakerake surgeon fishh.
• ntarema a fish, the.
• ntarine a fish, the.
• ntobatoba sick as a woman who has lately given birth.
• nunua a fish, the.
• nga where? in what place.
• nga n tarire branch of family (distant), multiple or extensive relatives.
• onauti flying fish.
• ongotao hear distressing news of a member of one's family when at a distance.
• otaba marryy>ied woman in her prime.
• rabono an eel, the.
• raetoba paleness or whiteness of nursing mothers, pale or sallow as...
• rakaua to have illicit intercourse.
• raku a fish, the.
• raure separated, as husband and wife.
• raurekana separated, as husband and wife.
• raweiria family feast the third day after the death of a relative.
• rereba a fish, the.
• riba crowded.
• rikia the residence of one's ancestors.
• rikibuaka not developing well as fruit.
• rikimate unfruitful, not bearing fruit.
• rikitemanna an only child, an only begotten.
• rimoa to go before.
• robitara separated as husband and wife.
• ruatu a large fish-pond trap of stone wall.
• tabeataei to act as foster parent.
• tabetabe to engage in carrying, to repeatedly carry.
• tabo a place, end, point, extremity.
• tabontanga a distant relative.
• taburimai myth. person. name of ancestor.
• takabea garrulous, loquacious, talkative, long-winded.
• tama a father.
• tamana to take as a father, to make a father of one.
• tamatama frequentative of tam'a to climb.
• taobai fishing for ikarikiriki with a seine.
• tari salt water, salt, a sea.
• taritari to associate as brethren.
• tauanikai a concubine.
• teba a tapir (ENG).
• tei kind, sort, variety, a watch as on ship-board, a standing.
• teirara youngest child in a group, in a family.
• temamang (1) myth. person, son of Bakewa, brother of Tabakea.
• tibu swollen, bloated, puffed up.
• tina a mother.
• tina ni kewe (mother of lies) source of..., inveterate liar.
• tinaba a man's daughter-in-law, a man's mother-in-law.
• tinan na bawe an old shrivelled-up mother, old as Na Bawe.
• tinanikora hardened as the palms or soles by much use, callous, slow in growth.
• toba to engage in nursing or caring for a little child.
• tobana to have for foster child, to serve as foster mother, to care for as...
• tokarakea to override as a son a father.
• uamumuri Nei Uamumuri, wife of Ten Kantoa, daughter of Nao and Neiko (romantic…
• uan nei rara the first child of a young mother, cherished, richly dressed,…
• ubanaine a fish (Labridae sp.), wrasse.
• uea reign.
• unabia fertile female flying fish.
• uoua two, in counting things in generalfour in counting by twos two twos.
• uouoa rock and sing a child to sleep in one's arms while walking or sitting.
• uringaba remember with affection or sorrow.
• urua destroy, break.
• uti louse.
• utu family, household.
• wi n aine said of husband who takes the part of his wife.