amori

Bingham

ámori

n. fish.

Sabatier

amori

n. a fish. When fully grown this fish is called amori.

ex. species, te unimai, te ubo, te ninimai, te bukinimaka, te amori (Gerres argyrus).

sn. Gerres specialis.

Goo & Banner

amori

sn. Gerres arbyrus.

pr. amori (k).

n. large one (ll).

amori¹

pr. amori (k).

sn. Gerres oblongus.

n. big one (ll).

Luomala

amori

sn. Gerres (gerreidae).

n. large mojarras.

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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