uta

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.

Bingham

úta

n. part, small portion, some, little.

uta

or. euta.

n. myth. person who helped to lift the sky.

uta¹

n. te utana, ua uta, etc.: a scrap, a little, a crumb.

ex. ti teutana: only a tiny morsel,... a little bit.