bere

Bingham

bére

intj. an insulting exclamation of great contempt.

beére

n. a bale (ENG).

bk. Arith p. 128.

b'ére

n. a thin bivalvular shell fish, the.

Sabatier

bere

intj. showing refusal, disdain, scorn. no go! be blowed! never! bother!

syn. bete!

vt. kaberebere, kaberea, kabereberea: to say bere to, to refuse, to insult.

n. te kaberebere: act of...

bere¹

n. a variety of shells.

ex.

beremai: whitish...
bereraun: shiny.

Goo & Banner

b'ére

sn. Streptopinna saccata (i).

n. a thin bivalvular shellfish (k).

Luomala

bere

sn. Streptopinna saccata.

n. bivalve.

Topics: Fish, Shells and sea creatures, 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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