baraitoa

Bingham

b'aráitoa

n. a small hat.
a certain shell fish.

n. a certain star.

Sabatier

baraitoa

n. 1. a small shell, conical-shaped.

sn. Troque aigu.

n. 2. a small hat made of pandanus leaves and hair, fishing hat.

Goo & Banner

baraitoa

sn. Trochus spp..

n. all species of trochus shells (i,hh).

Luomala

baraitoa

sn. Trochus (gastropod).

n. snail.

Topics: Fish, Shells and sea creatures, Pandanus, Weather and sky, 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).

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