ku

Bingham

n. a fish, the.

Sabatier

a. rounded, curved.
kaku: which causes...

ku¹

n. a fish.
te ku-mane: soldier fish, a large...

sn. Holocentrus Sp.

Goo & Banner

sn. Holocentrus laevis (ll).

n. soldier fish (sm).

ku¹

sn. Holocentrus lacteoguttatus (ll).

n. soldier fish (sm).

ku²

sn. Holocentrus microstomus (ll).

n. soldier fish (sm).

ku³

sn. Holocentrus sammara (ll).

n. soldier fish (sm).

ku⁴

sn. Holocentrus sp. (hh).

n. soldier fish (sm).

ku⁵

sn. Holocentrus violaceous (ll).

n. soldier fish (sm).

Luomala

sn. Adioryx andamensis (holocentridae).

n. squirrelfish.

sn. A. diadema.
A. lacteogutattus.
A. microstomus.
all other adioryx.
Flammeo sammara.

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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