aikai

Bingham

áikai

pron. these.

n. fish.

aáikai

vi. towing logs.

Sabatier

aikai

from. contr. of aika and aei.

pron. there.

ex. baikai (bai aikai): these things.

aikai¹

n. a species of fish (small tauman).

syn. te matakai: rabbit fish.

aikai²

v. to draw or drag logs.

Goo & Banner

aikai

sn. Siganua sp. (ll).

n. rabbitfish (sm).

Luomala

aikai

sn. Siganus (siganidae).

n. rabbitfish.

Topics: Fish, Animal and plant names (Goo & Banner), Ethnobotany (Luomala)

Sources

Bingham: Hiram Bingham, A Gilbertese-English Dictionary (1908, 1953). American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
Sabatier: Ernest Sabatier, M.S.C., Dictionnaire Gilbertin-Français (1954), translated by Sr. M. Oliva as Gilbertese-English Dictionary (1971). South Pacific Commission Publications Bureau.
Goo & Banner: Fannie C. C. Goo & Albert H. Banner, A Preliminary Compilation of Gilbertese Animal and Plant Names (1963).
Luomala: Katharine Luomala, Ethnobotany of the Gilbert Islands (1953). Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 213.

From A Combined Kiribati-English Dictionary, compiled by Stephen Trussel and Gordon W. Groves (University of Hawaiʻi, 1978), revised and edited by Stephen Trussel (2003), as published on trussel.com. Original page (archived).

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