nunua

Bingham

núnua

n. a fish, the.

vi. to sail fast.

a. frequentative of nuai.

Sabatier

nunua

n. lizard fishh.

nunua¹

n. barracuda fishh.

Goo & Banner

núnua

sn. Saurida gracilis (y).

n. lizardfish (sm).

nunua

sn. Sphyraena forsteri (y).

n. barracuda (sm).

nunua¹

sn. Sphyraena spp. (ll).

n. big sized barracuda (sm).

nunua²

sn. family Sphyraenidae.

n. barracuda (hh).

Luomala

nunua

ew. ono.

sn. Sphyraena barracuda (sphyraenidae).

n. barracuda.

Topics: Fish, 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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