kuia

Bingham

kuía

n. wood drifted to the islands.
a fish.

Sabatier

kuia

n. a foreign tree trunk floating or beached.

kuia¹

n. a shoal of young fish.

ex. te kuia n rereba: a shoal of...

Goo & Banner

kuia

sn. family Carangidae.

n. kingfish at about 2-3 inches (ll,sm).

Luomala

kuia

sn. Caranx melampyges.

n. small jack.

Topics: Fish, Plants and trees, Family and people, 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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