aumeang

Bingham

auméang

n. winter.

a. being winter season.

Sabatier

aumeang

n. Winter Solstice (Sept. to March).

ex. e au meang: the sun is moving from north to pass to south.

note. When Rimwimata (Antares) begins to appear above the horizon at 6 p.m. the good season (Aumaiaki) commences. Trade winds and currents flow from east. When Nei Auti (Pleides) begins to appear above the horizon at 6 p.m. the bad season starts (Aumeang). Irregular currents,westerly winds.

aumeang¹

n. a species of shark (rare).

Goo & Banner

aumeang

n. a rare shark which may be taken when fishing for castor oil fish at about 60 fathoms or so (ll).

Luomala

aumeang

sn. Charcharhinus albimarginatus.

n. requiem shark.

Topics: Fish, Weather and sky, 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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