were

Bingham

wére

n. a fish, the.

weére

n. a vail (ENG).

Sabatier

were

n. (1) furbelowed clam.

n. (2) elongated clam.

ex. were-makai: scales of frilled clam.

Goo & Banner

were

sn. Tridacoconuta cumingi (i).

n. furbelowed clam (jr).

were¹

sn. Tridacoconuta elongata (i).

n. elongate clam (ja).

Luomala

were

sn. Tridacoconuta.

n. small (to 5") "killer" tridacoconuta - bivalve.

were

sn. Tridacoconuta cummingi.
Tridacoconuta elongata.

n. bivalve.

Topics: Fish, Shells and sea creatures, 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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