taritari

Bingham

tæ/ritæri

vi. to associate as brethren.

ex. a i taritari.

tæ/ritæri

n. a fish, the.

Sabatier

taritari

n. (1) fish.

n. (2) moray eel.

see eri.

n. (3) furrow, wake.

see tari, i-taritari.

Goo & Banner

tæ/ritæri

sn. family Echeneidae (ll).

n. moray eel (sm).

Luomala

taritari

ew. talitaliuli.

sn. Echeneis (echeneidae).

n. remora.

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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