tewe

Bingham

téwe

n. a fish, the.

Sabatier

tewe

n. a species of barbelled fish, goat fish.

sn. Chryserodon parupeneus.

ex. kinds: ten tewetewe, tewera, bobo n tewe, kaitewe, kaira.

tewe¹

nv. tewetewe, tewe rio, tewerake, tewenako: to throw, to project, to fling (down, up, away).

Goo & Banner

téwe

sn. Parupeneus chryserodos (ll).

n. goatfish (gb).

Luomala

tewe

sn. Mulloidichthys auriflamma (mullidae).

n. goat-fish.

Topics: Fish, 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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