bureinawa

Bingham

buréinawa

n. a fish, the.

vi. to fish for the bureinawa.

Sabatier

bureinawa

n. a fish, soldier fish.

n. fishing for this fish by rod and line at tanrake.

Goo & Banner

buréinawa

sn. Holocentrus tiere (ll).

n. soldier fish (sm).

bureinawa¹

sn. Monotaxis grandoculis.

n. big eye; juvenile (hh).

Luomala

bureinawa

sn. Adioryx caudimaculatus (holocentridae).

n. squirrel fish.

bureinawa

sn. Flammeo tiera (holocentridae).

n. squirrel fish.

bureinawa

sn. Monotaxis grandoculis.

n. juvenile emperor.

Topics: Fish, Fishing, The body, 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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