baneawa

Bingham

bæ/neawa

n. name of a fish, the mullet.

Sabatier

baneawa

n. a fish, mullet, milk fish (lives in sea or in fresh-water ponds).

sn. Chanos chanos.

Goo & Banner

bæ/neawa

sn. Chanos chanos (ll).

n. milkfish at 8 inches (sm,ll).

Luomala

baneawa

ew. awa.

sn. Chanos chanos.

n. milkfish (under 8").

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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baneawa

Bingham

Sabatier

Goo & Banner

Luomala

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