rou

Bingham

róu

n. a fish, the.

róu

pron. self.

ex.

i rou: by me, with me (preceded by the preposition i).
i roum: by you.
i rouna: by him, etc.

Sabatier

rou

n. reef fish.

ex. rou-baneaua: species of scavenger fish.

nv. ka-rou: to fish for...

rou¹

from. routa. used in several compound words.

ex. rou-babai, rou-bwebwe: pulling up of...

nv. rourou: to pull up by roots.

Goo & Banner

róu

sn. Aprion sp..

n. poisonous snapper (cc).

róu

sn. Lethrinus rhodopterus.

n. scavenger (hh).

Luomala

rou

sn. Lethrinus miniatus (lethrinidae).

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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