ikarikiriki

Bingham

íkaríkiriki

n. fish.

i:/karíkiriki

va. abounding in ikarikiriki.

Sabatier

ikarikiriki

n. small fish (maebo: mature), comes in shoals in certain places in Abaiang Island.

sn. Bymnorada or Decapterus muroadsei).

ikarikiriki¹

a. shivering all over (as the sea when shoals of ikarikiriki arrive).

ex. tarin te ikarikiriki: shivering of this kind.

vc. kaikarikirikia: to make tremble, to frighten.

Goo & Banner

íkaríkiriki

sn. Decapterus muroadsei (ll).

Luomala

ikarikiriki

sn. Decapterus muroadsei (carangidae).

n. jack.

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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