binaing

Bingham

bináing

n. a fish, the.

Sabatier

Binaing

n. 1. Na Binaing; myth. person who got buried to become a coconut tree, a coconut tree grew out of his skull, and Nei Kakanoriki, who had rejected him was now united to him by drinking the young coconuts and wearing a grass skirt made from leaves of this tree.

n. 2. a fish (kind of nuonuo), trigger fish.

Goo & Banner

binaing

sn. Pseudobalistes flavimarginatus (ll).

n. triggerfish (sm).

Luomala

binaing

sn. Pseudobalistes flavimarginatus (balistidae).

n. triggerfish.

Topics: Fish, Spirits, myth and belief, 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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