kungkung

Bingham

kung/kung

vi. to grunt, indicating thereby dessatisfaction.

n. the act of grunting to indicate disapproval or doubt.

kung/kung

n. a fish, the.

Sabatier

kungkung

n. a fish which makes a grunting sound: soldier fish.

Goo & Banner

kungkung

sn. Myripristis adustus (y).

n. soldier fish (sm).

kungkung¹

sn. Myripristis microthalmus (ll).

n. soldierfish (sm).

Luomala

kungkung

sn. Myripristes kuntee (holocentridae).

n. squirrelfish.

kungkung

sn. Monotaxis granduculis (lethrinidae).

n. emperor (fish).

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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