raun

Bingham

ráun

n. a kind of fish-hook made of mother-of-pearl.

Sabatier

raun

n. a shell fish biv., kind of white mother of pearl. penshell used to make fish hooks, etc.

raun¹

n. round, trip, rounds, short trip, pleasure excursion. (ENG).

red. raraun: making several trips.

nv. a game, playing this game.

Goo & Banner

raun

sn. Pinna atropurpurea (i).

n. pen shell (jr).

Luomala

raun

sn. Pinna atropurpurea.

n. bivalve.

Topics: Fish, Shells and sea creatures, Games, songs and dance, 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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