Aneityum

v.n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

v.a.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

v.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

v.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

pro.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

n.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

[t̚apanan ʤa ʤaj et lok sto eŋmikope stoi lok] phr.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 72

inter.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

v.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 76

v.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 77

[eroʊ] num.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

phr.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 82

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Scientific name: Gahnia aspera, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

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Example: 1. Take a handful of leaves, squeeze with the hands into 1/2 liter of water, drink when tired; said to open the "blood nerves" and to purify the blood and make the muscles of the male sexual organ strong. 2a. When a person is planting watermelons in the garden, as the vines grow, split them and perforate the vines with a sharpened stick. This practice is said to ensure that the watermelons will be as prolific as the seeds in Vitex. 2b. If you plant vines in your garden like cucumber, beans, melons, pierce the stem with a small sliver of this branch and it will make the vine have more fruit.

Scientific name: Vitex trifolia, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

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Scientific name: Piper macropiper, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Example: Photo by Anne Hoggett / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Gymnocranius microdon via FishBase, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 85

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 114

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

n.

Scientific name: Macaranga tanarius, Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

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Example: 1. This plant is considered bad luck when hunting or fishing. When doing these activities, do not decorate your hair with them. 2. This plant is used to weave the sheath portion of "nambas". First the stems are retted, then the inner portion of the plant removed. Once removed, the sheath is woven with the blanched fiber. 3. This is considered the male version of this plant. See GMP #4105, Phlegmarius sp. for the female version.

Scientific name: Phlegmariurus phlegmaria, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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Scientific name: Huperzia phlegmaria, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Example: The word itougo means from a different country or place outside of Aneityum. The plant was introduced by the first missionaries who came to Port Patrick. Calendar plant – sea cost people see this flower in the forest and they know it is time to go into garden and harvest taro or make new gardens– see GMP 3263. This is also good firewood.

Scientific name: Operculina turpethum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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Example: 1. The nut of this tree is edible and very good. Boil it with skin on or bake it in the earth oven and then cut it in half and eat. 2. Leaves for top of house ridge. 3. Leaves for fertilizing the water taro in swamps.

Scientific name: Inocarpus fagifer, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 188

n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

v.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 90

v.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 90

n.

Scientific name: Homalium aneityense, Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[kijamoʊ] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

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Example: The leaves are used to feed livestock. The large timbers are used for house posts, and the small wood for other types of posts such as for fences.

Scientific name: Leucaena leucocephala, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120

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Scientific name: Imperata cylindrica, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 94

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Example: This plant grows in coastal areas, and is a good source of firewood. It can be used for house posts. The leaves are used as an unspecified medicine. There is a belief regarding the black and white sea snake, that represents a seawater spirit. Mix this with other unspecified leaves, mash together, squeeze into a bamboo tube and fill it. Give it to a woman to drink to keep the evil snake spirit away. The same preparation can be used to treat toothache, caused by the seawater spirit. "The spirit can trick you into going to fish every day."

Scientific name: Guettarda speciosa, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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Example: The wood of this species is very straight and people make fishing spears out of it. The wood, being straight, is used as well for roof rafters.

Scientific name: Pavetta opulina, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Scientific name: Calanthe chrysantha, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

[naleθmot] n.

Example: Photo by Geoff Whalan, License: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Tyto longimembris, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Scientific name: Maesa aneiteensis, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

[nawʊn niʧman] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

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Example: As a medicine to treat toothache, the latex from this vine is put into the tooth as soon as the person feels pain. Use 3x daily until the pain has subsided. The flower is used as a decoration behind the ear. When there are rough seas because someone has trespassed in a tabu area you can take 12 leaves from the napalhat and put them in a pond for about 1 week until they start to stink. Then use we leaves from the naojapdak and drown those leaves in either a fresh water pond or salty water. (No further information given). Can also take an armful of napalhat and place on top of a stone in the tabu area with a smaller stone on top of the napaphat. The stone must be a large permanent stone. Has also heard people say it can be used for toothache if you put the leaf on the tooth.

Scientific name: Hoya australis, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[napwat] n.

Speaker: Chris Nevehev

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Example: 1. The name means "cloud". The plant is usually found on high ridges, in areas where there is often high moisture.

Scientific name: Callistopteris apiifolia, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 113

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Scientific name: Breynia disticha, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 113

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

[nawuraniŋ] phr.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Example: The common name of this plant refers to the footprint of a chicken. Mix the dried leaves of this plant with pieces of coconut and feed to chickens. They are said to really like it. Plant the shrub near the place that chickens are kept. This feed will make the chickens produce more eggs and also increase the number of healthy chickens.

Scientific name: Acalypha, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

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Example: 1. Wood used for roof rafters. 2. Leaves of this plant can be used to cover an earth oven while baking food. 3. Name means bird footprint.

Scientific name: Plerandra actinostigma, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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Example: Used as a leaf compost for planting taro, layered on the bottom of the hole and covering the taro as well.

Scientific name: Melicope triphylla, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

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Example: This is considered a sacred plant. People do not use this plant as it is considered "of the devil."

Scientific name: Delarbrea paradoxa, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 98

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Example: The younger,soft leaves are used to wrap local foods, for example bananas. To prepare a type of "local cheese," made from fermented breadfruit and fermented banana, mix a bit of coconut milk and wrap these two fruits in the leaves and cook under ground. Not clear about the way the food is fermented.

Scientific name: Asplenium australasicum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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Scientific name: Asplenium amboinense, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 100

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 100

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120

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Example: Fruits are sweet and edible when ripe. This plant is an indicator of rich soil, a good place to plant one’s garden. The leaves of this species are mixed in with other leaves for an unspecified local medicine that helps to remove spiritual sickness

Scientific name: Ficus adenosperma, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Example: The leaves of the young plant are used to wrap food for cooking on a fire. The wood is used for temporary houses, for making rafters that are said to last a long time.

Scientific name: Macaranga dioica, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

[niʧɛn jaoʊ] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

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Example: shoot -- cold maceration taken internally against cough

Speaker: Bradacs 2011, p. 440

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

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Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, Dec. 2018, Aneityum island.

Speaker: Jack Keitadi

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 130

[nipʧinɛtŋaŋ] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[niseuɣ inmohoɣ] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

n.

Scientific name: Microsorum grossum, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 165

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Example: In the past there were no toys for the children, so people made toys from the seed of this plant. They peeled the fruit, took the seed, removed the inside, punched one hole on each side, put a string through each of the holes and twisted the string to spin the seed such that it would make a whistling sound as the fruit spun faster and faster. On Palm Sunday, people use this leaf in Church. People plant this cycad around their homes and use it as an ornamental. Some people believe that having this plant around their homes will keep the bad spirits away.

Scientific name: Cycas seemannii, Speaker: Tony Keith

[nopɲa] n.

Example: Sub-adult Red-bellied Fruit Dove. Photo by Papier K / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Scientific name: Ptilinopus greyii, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[nugep] n.

Example: Photo by David Cook Wildlife Photography / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Scientific name: Macropygia mackinlayi, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Example: 1. The name means "knife of sandpaper", a type of fish. The leaf base resembles the fin of the fish. 2. In the past, a spear was made from the sapling wood of this plant for tribal warfare. Today, spears are made from this plant for fishing. First, a relatively straight spaling is chosen and then heated over a fire. The pliable portion of wood is straightened and then decorticated. When cool, a portion of wire can be affixed on one end to aid in the spearing of fish.

Scientific name: Tapeinosperma

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Speaker: David Nasauman

adv.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 108

v.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 109

v.n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 109