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House and village

Buildings, the maneaba, household things and village life.

231 Kiribati words

• aba four, in counting leafves.
• ababa inherit as land.
• abamakoro island.
• abana hold or possess as land.
• abari slimy, soft marine animal, clinging to the rocks on the flat.
• abatao low lying land, often submerged.
• aerake go ashore.
• ai flint lock musket.
• aiabu Nei Aiabu, Naiabu: the Milky Way.
• aka before names of special canoes, maneaba, etc. Akamatang, Aka-Tamoa,…
• aku the back, the back portion.
• anena foreign land, land not one's own.
• anna terra firma.
• aobanebane person not skilled in acquiring or doing.
• aobuaka rough, as land.
• aonaba the earth, all lands.
• aoneinei wet land, land having water beneath near the surface.
• aontia land adjoining [tia a boundary, limit].
• aoraereke narrow neck of land, as isthmus.
• aramatoa middle rafter (in canoe or maneaba), always an uneven number.
• ararake go up, ascend, climb up as on a mountain.
• arematoa 1. magic garland hung on kiaromatua after use.
• ata know.
• ato thatch of coconut leaf.
• atona 1. to cover or thatch a house with ato.
• auti house (ENG).
• ba n uri leaves of uri.
• baieta skilful on land only, not skilful at steering a canoe.
• bain aine 1. women's clothes.
• bairababa to claim land as one's own unjustly.
• baka to fall.
• bakatekea to visit by water or land.
• bakati a fish, the.
• bakeke failing to make land, as a canoe.
• banga to be ignorant, not to know.
• bao a house with an elevated floor, a platform, a dais.
• baobao flat, not steep as a roof.
• bareaka a canoe house.
• bareum a cook house.
• bareuma bareum.
• bari smooth and level as land.
• bata a Gilbertese dwelling house with the ground for the floor.
• batabata very dark skinned.
• batana to manure taro with withered leaves.
• betarao a rack, a stick or moulding on a canoe on which to rest slats.
• bikematata desolate.
• birirake to steer towards the land.
• boiriki a certain post in a council house.
• boitabu a pillar of maneaba, the most important one going from ground to roof.
• bono shut.
• bono uati baba doubly closed, deaf as a door post.
• bonobono a curbing stome as around a house.
• bora a bowl (ENG).
• borau sailing, navigation.
• boraua to collect, as leaves for thatch.
• boti a boat (ENG).
• boua to build a new canoe.
• bouriki 1. a prop supporting the middle of the top okai in ancient maneaba…
• bouru the spirit-land.
• boutabu a center post for a ridge-pole.
• boutabunnuka a central post supporting the ridge-pole.
• boutokana to use a beam to serve as a support.
• buatarawa a house with lofty plates and eaves, a bao.
• bubai to engage in seizing the property more or less of the man who deserts…
• buia a platform, shelf, upper floor.
• bukarere the eaves of a house.
• bukinaweawe ocean near the land.
• bukinikainga the suburbs of a village on the windward or eastern side.
• bukiniwae the heel.
• bukirurunga to resound, as falling coconut.
• bure passed over, given away, teansferred.
• butirawa homeless, forlorn, unprovided for.
• bwia floor.
• eta up, on high, above.
• inaki tier of thatch on a roof.
• inakiwarawara pale, sallow complexion, wan (of sickness).
• iningaoa carry a coconut by the teeth in descending from the tree.
• irakai how many? in counting trees, fish-hooks, and sections of land.
• itabon adjoining as houses.
• kaababa a donation of land (gift, legacy, dowry).
• kabanei a land bird, the.
• kabiroro the ocean where the land is barely seen.
• kaburara name of land, of clan, of boti.
• kai n taetaeri horizontal laths of walls to which are fixed ba one after another.
• kai ni babau a crossbeam of maneaba or house.
• kai ni kamaen method or school or composition for dance singing, dances with magic…
• kai ni kaukau a cross beam in native buildings.
• kai ni kawawa spout, gutter of roof, delivery pipe.
• kai ni man a flag post, semaphore, coconuts hung upside down inside house to…
• kai ni wairau a tool for making thatch.
• kaiaba to want land, to have a great desire to acquire or possess land.
• kaiakina to abide on one's land on order the better to care for it.
• kaingunakoa to strip off all the coconut on a stem with the foot.
• kainikakari a wooden needle for tying on thatch to a roof.
• kainiwairau a bone-awl for making thatch.
• kakari to sew or tie on thatch.
• kamaoto the corner of a house or fence, a corner-like place in a seine.
• kanakonako to move from one house to another as a sick man.
• kani coconut wood.
• kaningining filled as a house.
• kaoti to appear, to come in sight.
• kara decrepit, aged.
• karaiti to pass by a house frequently.
• karebuia to go from house to house, to waste time.
• karekainga to go from house to house uninvited.
• kari fishing for the ikari.
• karikiriki a new village, a new babai pit.
• kauaba owning much land, rich in lands.
• kaukau to bark as a dog.
• kawa to creep.
• keke frequentative of ke to shout in triumph, to move a little.
• kiakia name of a bird.
• kiaro a stick uniting the outrigger to a canoe.
• kiaromatua the middle rafter.
• kibao standing or walking with the body inclining forward without much…
• kimangai a post of a bata or native house.
• kiroro the ocean near the horizon as seen from the land.
• kitea to fix upon a house as a suitable place for a sick person by means of…
• korea to cut.
• koromaneaba a house warming.
• korouma inauguration of house with festivities (after cutting thatch).
• ma this word is identical in use with the Hawaiian word ma, of which Mr.…
• maebuebu filled as a house with plenty of food to be prepared for a feast.
• maeka abide, dwell, reside, live.
• maiuianna no good on a canoe.
• manai scissors.
• maneaba council-housee, church, chapel.
• manenrau thatch (already used, taken off roof).
• mangko cup.
• mangkona possess land through the marriage of a child.
• mango fontanel [skull joint].
• marenaua channel between two islands.
• matang the white man's country.
• matanikabi back door, limit of low tide.
• matarake bowl of a pipe.
• mataroa door, gate, entrance.
• matata open, cleared as land, roomy, clear.
• matoro abidee>ing constantly in one's home.
• maungatabu collected as people.
• moaniwa place where canoe lands, destination of voyages (general).
• neineaba Nei Neaba: land of spirits.
• nenebo to hold land taken by a relative of a murdered man as a recompense.
• neneboa to occasion the taking of land by being murdered.
• niba a post hole.
• niku wide as the rim of land in certain places.
• nikurababa name of the first maneaba in Tarawa.
• nikuraroa wide part of island, land extending far across the island.
• nikutaretare provided with short connections for an outrigger.
• nikutataro canoe with outrigger beams too short, unbalanced, badly balanced.
• ninia to enter as a house or room.
• nono a perquisite or recompense in the form of a coconut given to the…
• nonoa to build ramparts, to make walls around, to fortify.
• nonoua to take fish with a scoop-net.
• nou a blister.
• ntabenarerei a land crustacean with nice carapace.
• nukamotu an uninhabited tract between villages.
• nuku having long outrigger poles.
• ngangarake the roof of the mouth.
• obaba coming up onto the land as a very high tide.
• oka rafter of a house.
• okai house for storing ripe coconuts.
• okaia store ripe coconuts in a house.
• onaona unevenn as land, or as a person's disposition.
• ore name of land of crazy people.
• rae inclined, as the head, to one side.
• raereke very narrow, as cloth.
• rai aba exchange of land.
• rakaraka to be engaged in measuring by pacing.
• ramanakoa to enlarge a house by extending further out the gable roof.
• ranaba a slice of land granted to a younger brother.
• rang crazy, insane, lascivious, blighted or abnormal in growth.
• rariki side.
• rau comfortable, quiet, undisturbed, placid.
• rauna to cover with rau (thatch).
• raunene wet by a shower.
• rena to visit a land as a first party or company.
• ribaba collected close together.
• rieta to go by land.
• riki again, in addition, following an adjective it gives the force of the…
• rinanginiba a large rock on the land.
• rinanobarabara low as a tree or house.
• ringiringi edge of roof (where thatch is cut), lean to, guttering;.
• rirongo a variety of coral.
• roro the spathe of a coconut tree when open, the open spathe which once…
• roto damp, water-soaked.
• rurutei steep-roofedd, cone-like, as a certain half coconut-shell.
• tabaong name of village of foolish people near Bikenibeu.
• tabaro the cheek-bone.
• tabo ni bara detached piece of land at end of island.
• taboaba rich land owner.
• tabuki a ridge, a mound, a hill.
• tabweang a village of fools at Tanaeang, Aranuka.
• taeaba to ask as a bride for more dowry in land.
• taeo to make wall, or partition by tying ba side by side.
• taeririka stripped off as the mats on a ridgepole by the wind.
• tano earth, soil, ground.
• tarika a small portion of food set apart before beginning to eat, as a sort…
• tatanga the plate of a building, the sill.
• taubuki the top, the ridge.
• taubukin ni moa principal house, royal...
• tawaewae far away, distant in space.
• tawanang katawanang: land denuded of vegetation, sward.
• tokabaki a person holding but little land.
• tokabeti coming into possession of much land after a war.
• tokananti to engage in taking land under a false pretense.
• tokanantia to seize land on a false pretense or unjust charge.
• tokanikaia to seize and hold land unjustly.
• tororau to flatten out leaves for thatch.
• tuake a shoal or ledge projecting into a channel.
• uabangaki lying crosswise as tying-sticks on rafters, or as a ship in a channel.
• uan pumice stone.
• uania fertilize a plant with powdered uan.
• uarongo equivalent to " the land cannot be famine stricken ".
• uatao great in quantity.
• uma lagoon side of an island.
• uma n aia a hut for combustibles, firewood.
• uma n anti house of the gods. name of first maneaba,.
• uma n reirei school house, school building.
• uma n roronga bachelors' quarters, hut for boys only.
• uma ni bung labour ward, hut for...
• umatoa strongly buildt as a house or canoe.
• umatoro house without a loft.
• una rake to steer straight for the land.
• wa a canoe.
• wa n anano joists, lower beams in a building.
• waenima to swim as fish in long lines.
• waibora to pierce, sew (thatch, etc.) in irregular faulty manner.
• wairau to engage in sewing or fastening pan leaves to a stick for thatching.
• waiteke a fork.
• wanina to mend... darn (mats, baskets, thatch, etc.).
• wari a person, or ship, or house of great size.