Aneityum

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 48

v.n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 154

v.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 54

v.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

v.n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 66

v.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 183

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 130

[inŋa] n.

Example: Photo by Bernard Spragg, License: Public domain via Flickr

Scientific name: Porphyrio porphyrio, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

[inʤa] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

[inʤupuram] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

[inmeg inʤupʤupura] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 87

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

[inmeʧihap̃] n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 113

n.

Scientific name: Oxera lehuntei, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

n.

Example: This plant is grown as an ornamental plant, and its flowers are used in the house. The stems are also cut for firewood.

Scientific name: Bauhinia, Speaker: Tony Keith

n.

Example: 1. Sickness blo namya. When a man accidentally has intercourse with a woman during her menstrual cycle, he can become sick. The leaves are squeezed, along with others, to produce an extraction. The dose and duration varies according to the degree of the symptoms. Further information about the preparation withheld.

Scientific name: Psilotum complanatum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

[intas anejʧom] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

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

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Example: name = "stonefish ears" 1. To treat rashes - boil 4 leaves in water ad wait until it cools. Wash in this once a day until rash goes away. 2. Stonefish sting – very painful: 1 handful of leaves with squeezed coconut juice – coconut water – from green coconut. Mix the leaves and water and then make a cut in the wound to enlarge it and pour this juice into the wound. In 5-10 minutes the pain will stop, use 1x, very powerful. 3.If a person such as a mother touches the stonefish while preparing it for food, then does not wash hands, can infect a child – and the child will get sores. Take a small branch and boil it in the water and wash the baby with it to make pain go away. 4. Stonefish is a greatly appreciated food that must be prepared carefully by holding the fish by the mouth and not touching the body. Boil the fish to inactivate the poison and then prepare it as a normal fish for cooking. Poison is found in top spine of fish.

Scientific name: Acalypha caturus, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Example: In the past the ancestors learned to cook the leaves of this species with fish in an earth over and then eat the leaves as well as the fish. Today, fish are wrapped with small leaves and then covered with lap-lap leaf (Polyscias) and cooked in an earth oven. This plant is also a "calendar plant." When you see this plant flower you know that sea turtles are getting fat and ready to harvest. As a "message plant", if a person puts this flower behind their ear or in their hat, and looks at another person, it is an invitation to that person to go with you to the nakamal for kava

Scientific name: Wollastonia biflora, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Example: 1. Hardwood is used to make a fishing spear. Wire is fashioned at the point to make a spear head. 2. Young plants are used to fasten coconut leaves to the rafters, in the thatching process.

Scientific name: Arytera brackenridgei, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Scientific name: Cassytha filiformis, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 114

[katɣapohoθ] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, April 2016.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Plectorhinchus vittatus via FishBase, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120

n.

Scientific name: Delarbrea paradoxa, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

[nahanemek] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 95

n.

Example: To make rope, cut the stems, tie together in a bundle and place in the sea. Cover the bundle with rocks for about a week, then take it out, wash it, dry in the sun until the fibers bleach white and use to make grass skirts. This is the process of retting. When the cyclone season is finished, the plant has flowers and fruits--in May through July--this means no danger of cyclones.

Scientific name: Urena lobata, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Example: People on Anietyum carve a kava bowl from the wood of this species, that is unique to this island. It is oblong in shape and has a handle on each side.

Scientific name: Glochidion ramiflorum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Example: 1. This plant is named in relation to a winged fish. The leaves are rough and resemble the body the fish. 2. The leaves of this plant are used to wrap grated taro or manioc. After it is fastened with rope and boiled or baked.

Scientific name: Joinvillea plicata, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Scientific name: liana, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

[nawʊnalak] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 162

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

[ɲataʊ] n.

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, April 2016.

Speaker: Chris Nevehev

[natʔhat] n.

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, April 2016.

Speaker: Osiani Nerian

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 168

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

n.

Example: The stem makes a good digging stick to plant taro. Also branches of this tree are cut to tie the canoe to the outrigger. Used for the small sticks that sit at the base of the larger sticks that hold the outrigger (see photos).

Scientific name: Halfordia kendack, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

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

n.

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

[nefelan] n.

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, April 2016.

Speaker: Osiani Nerian

n.

Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Monotaxis grandoculis via FishBase, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

n.

Example: 1. The wood is strong and good to make house posts. People use these for this purpose on the coast as salt water does not bother this wood. 2. People eat fruit, split fruit in half, carefully scrape the inner part into a pot of water, keep over night – next day rinse, fry or cook with coconut milk and can add tinned tuna for example, very hard work.

Scientific name: Bruguiera gymnorhiza, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Chris Nevehev

n.

Scientific name: Metrosideros collina, Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 114

n.

Example: This plant is used to make houseposts and for firewood.

Scientific name: Pittosporum aneityense, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Scientific name: Dendrocnide latifolia, Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[nepiŋ upni] phr.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 183

n.

Scientific name: Ficus obliqua, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Example: Photo by John Turnbull, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Caranx lugubris via FishBase, Speaker: Chris Nevehev

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 198

n.

Example: 1. The name refers to the rope that is used to transport fish. Accordingly a rope made from this plant is used to string and transport caught fish.

Scientific name: Dendrobium cf. involutum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Example: For treatment of a stomach ache, or if your stomach "complains", take very young stems, break off the leaves and chew the stems and swallow the juice. Use a 3-5 cm pieces of stems, chew, and then it clears your intestines and will make you go to the toilet.

Scientific name: Clerodendrum inerme, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 100

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120

n.

Example: The stems of this plant are good for making temporary houses in the bush. When used as firewood, the stems are said to "hold the fire," meaning they burn a long time, even all night so in the morning the fire can be restarted by adding kindling. This wood is said to be good when a person has no matches, as the fire can be restarted easily. Young leaves of this species can be wrapped around ground coconut and eaten raw. The young leaves can also be boiled in water for 15 minutes, coconut milk added, and eaten with tubers such as cassava. The young leaves can be wrapped around beef or pork, tied with a string from Pandanus and cooked in the earth oven.

Scientific name: Ficus storckii (or wassa), Speaker: Natu Kenneth

[nijom] n.

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, April 2016. see more on Youtube

Speaker: Osiani Nerian

[nipʧin ɲelas] n.

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, April 2016.

Speaker: Osiani Nerian

[nirinɣat erefera ran] n.

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, April 2016.

Speaker: Osiani Nerian

n.

Scientific name: Polyalthia nitidissima, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 103

n.

Example: 1. The inner bark of this plant is used as a dye or paint to provide a brown color. Boil the inner bark in a pot with a shirt and the color of the shirt will be changed to brown. 2. For toothache, people take the inner bark and mix it with sea water, and then rinse the tooth with this mixture to remove the pain. 3a. People macerate the leaves and the bark and when the tide is low, spread this in a pool of water to poison the sea shells that are edible. When they die, the eyes of this organism comes above the sand, indicating where they are, and people harvest and eat them. 3b. To attract and collect clam – NIPJINUMU – scrape bark in a pool of sea water where the clams are attracted immediately and can be collected, coming up from the sand. 4. Firewood, unspecified medical use.

Scientific name: Acacia simplex, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 152

[nohopɣop] n.

Example: Photo by Lip Kee, License: CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Collocalia esculenta, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

n.

Example: Photo by Richard Ling, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Lethrinus nebulosus via FishBase, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120

[noporo pora] n.

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, April 2016.

Speaker: Osiani Nerian

n.

Scientific name: Dysoxylum bijugum, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

[numu] n.

Speaker: Osiani Nerian

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 105

n.

Example: Wood is strong and used to make a spear for fishing.

Scientific name: Tapeinosperma netor, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Example: Inner bark: bathe in cold infusion, wounds. Mix heated over fire and taken out during sunset. Healer clenches the package in his fist, then gently punches the patients left, then right knee, then his forehead and finally squeezes over his head, migraine a

Speaker: Bradacs 2011, p. 441

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 105

n.

Example: Peel the outer stem of this plant and weave two pieces of this together to make and armband to hold fragrant leaves for Kastom ceremony.

Scientific name: Donax canniformis, Speaker: Tony Keith

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 107

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 107

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[talpos] adj.

Speaker: David Nasauman

adj.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

v.n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 111

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 111

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 112