mon

Bingham

mqn

n. fish.

Sabatier

mon

n. a fish.

sn. Priacanthus genus, Myrippustis adustus, Myrippustis murdjan, Myrippustis prilinus).

vn. roa mon: to fish for...

Goo & Banner

mon

pr. mqn (k).

sn. Myripristis adustus (ll).

mon¹

sn. Myripristis murdjan (ll).

mon²

sn. Myripristis pralinus (ll).

mon³

sn. Myripristis sp. (hh).

Luomala

mon

sn. Myripristes amaenus (holocentridae)M. berndti.
(all other) Myripristes.

n. needlefish.

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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