tuai

Bingham

tuái

adv. not yet, a verbal adverb, an adverbial verb.

Sabatier

tuai

n. heart cocklee shell.

sn. Cardiam sp.

tuai¹

adv. tuai n: not yet.

ex. e tuai n roko: it has not yet come.

also. tuai roko.

Goo & Banner

tuai

sn. Cardium sp. (i).

n. heart cockle (ja).

Luomala

tuai

sn. Cardium.

n. bivalve.

Topics: Shells and sea creatures, The body, 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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