morikoi

Bingham

mórikoi

n. fish.

Sabatier

morikoi

or. murikoi.

n. a reef fish (scavenger fish, Lethrinus nebulosus).

Goo & Banner

mórikoi

sn. Lethrinus nebulosus.

n. scavengerfish (this is a deeper bodied scavenger than the other two, L. variegatus and L. rhodopterus and is not very common.) (hh).

Luomala

morikoi

sn. Lethrinus mahrena (lethrinida).

n. emperor (fish).

Topics: Fish, Sea, canoes and navigation, 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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