baiku

Bingham

báiku

n. the fish.

báiku

a. unduly wide as a mat unskillfully made.

Sabatier

baiku

n. a fish, ray, skate.

a. baiku, babaiku: large and long.

baiku¹

n. hand or arms curved, not raised enough, arched (very inelegant in dance, ruoia).

Goo & Banner

báiku

n. name given to all sting rays (ll).

Luomala

baiku

sn. Dasyatidae.

n. stingrayy.

Topics: Fish, The body, Weaving and crafts, 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).

Suggest a correction

Have a GitHub account? You can also report it on GitHub.

baiku

Bingham

Sabatier

Goo & Banner

Luomala

Words that link here