awai

Bingham

áwai

n. fish.

n. molar tooth.

aáwai

a. abounding in awai fish.

Sabatier

awai

n. a fish (not safe to eat).

awai¹

n. molar teeth.

Goo & Banner

awai

pr. awai (k).

sn. Aprion virescens (hh).

n. runner; streaker (This fish is blue-gray in color, with a torpedo shaped body and a well-forked tail; It does not live around rocks on the bottom as do other snappers, but prefers the upper layers of the water; It now appears to be safe to eat on most islands) (hh).

Luomala

awai

sn. Aprion virescens (lutjanidae).

n. snapper.

Topics: Fish, The body, 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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