Aneityum

[aʔo] phr.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

v.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

v.n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[alpos] adj.

Speaker: David Nasauman

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 61

v.n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 154

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 130

v.a.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 62

v.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 74

n.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

[eroʊ] num.

Speaker: Chris Nevehev

v.n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 81

v.n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 81

phr.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 82

[inɣaɣen] n.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

n.

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

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

n.

Example: 1. The straight poles of this plant are sharpened and used to plant kava, and only for kava. Not used for planting other crops. 2. Special for catching eels in fresh water, poke stick with leaves into hole where eel lives and they don’t like it so they come out and you catch them, by cutting with knife.

Scientific name: Maoutia diversifolia, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

[inhɛlɛn] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Kyphosus cinerascens via FishBase, Speaker: Chris Nevehev

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 86

[inja] n.

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

Scientific name: Gallus gallus, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

[inʤa anʤia] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Scientific name: Huperzia phlegmaria, Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Scientific name: Phlegmariurus squarrosus, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 172

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

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

n.

Example: 1a. This is an invasive weed that was brought to Aneityum by aircraft. Name means "aircraft mess". 1b. Means “planes waste” refers to white trails as this has lots of white seeds that fly.

Scientific name: Crassocephalum crepidioides, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Example: Photo by Ross D. Robertson / Shorefishes of the Neotropics, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Naso unicornis via FishBase, Speaker: Chris Nevehev

n.

Example: The fruits are edible when they are red. If a person has been drinking kava and the next morning feels hung over, they can take a handful of the leaves of this plant, crush them in cool water, and wash their face with this. This treatment will help the kava feeling to disappear. At the same time, if a person eats the fruit of this tree a few hours in advance of planning to drink kava, they cannot drink kava as it will reduce the effects of the kava. The trunk of this tree can be used to build temporary houses and also it is good for firewood. When the plant is in flower, flying foxes and birds come to drink the nectar and hunters know this so they hunt near this tree.

Scientific name: Syzygium, Speaker: Tony Keith

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 134

n.

Scientific name: Homalium aneityense, Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 91

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Example: Tree is a good source of firewood. Children use the "Y" of a branch to make sling shot for hunting birds and flying fox.

Scientific name: Ochrosia elliptica, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[nadimi desiiʧ] phr.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

n.

Scientific name: Ophioderma pendula, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[nakro] v.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Example: 1. Children eat the nut of the ripe fruits. 2. The leaf bases can be used, when tied together, two at a time, to create a bowl from which to drink. 3. In the past, the trunks were used to fashion a hunting spear used in tribal warfare. Further context withheld.

Scientific name: Veitchia spiralis, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Scientific name: Calanthe chrysantha, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

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

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Example: 1. The roots of this plant are used to make "Nopoy"--a traditional trap used to catch fish and lobster. The outer bark of the roots are removed and sun-dried. The roots are then split into several pieces and they are woven in an open fashion similar to a "noporapora"--a type of market basket fashioned from coconut leaflets.

Scientific name: Freycinetia cf. reineckei, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

[napat ireɣpo] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 114

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 140

n.

Example: 1. The rachis of an old plant is braided as a rope to tie sugar cane, house posts, and fences. The rachis is used when green, and as it dries in form, it remains functional and lasts for a long time (10-12 years).

Scientific name: Lygodium reticulatum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Example: 1. When a sea shell pricks you "Inlac", a person can be lifted by magic using these leaves. Further information about this use withheld.

Scientific name: Macropiper latifolium, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Scientific name: Phrynium giganteum, Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

n.

Example: 1. To cure rubbush blood - Take a handfull f leaves of any age, pound it into a cupfull of water, squeeze the juice and drink when woman feels pain in head or inside the body or when the inside of the body is hot. Drink this once a day until the pain goes away. 2. To cure excessive bleeding after giving birth - boil naojapdak leaves (2-16) in seawater until leaves are soft and the water is brown. Sit on this water. 3. To close the cervix - boil 2 naojapdak leaves in water and bath in it. 4. Medicine: Smash leaves 1 handful, into cup and add a small amount of water to treat constipation—1 cup for children; 1.5 litres for adults. 5. Stomachache: same treatment, will clear bowel. 6. For leg sores, collect whole plant, put in water – a pool of water for 1 week, then use to dip sore as on leg into it for 10-15 minutes cure the sore.

Scientific name: Vigna marina, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

n.

Example: 1. To cure spirit sickness of the niteitau. Use plants that also end with "au" : niditau, intoutau, naoyerop. Go to the top of the plant to get the soft leaves of the plants niditau, intoutau, naoyerop, also take the bark. The person making the medicine should be holding the these leaves with a piece of nelmaha. Nelmaha means go away. The sick person chews the leaves and bark and swallows the juice spitting out the fiber into the nelmaha the medicine maker is holding. The medicine person then takes the spit out fiber in the nalmaha leaf and throws it into the sea in front of the village. 2. To cure headaches casued by bad spirit - Take one top from Nelmaha and one from inrowod (white stripe variety) Combine and chew these then spit them out and apply to the sick persons forehead. 3. To cure headaches - Someone other than the woman must prepare this. Break the top branch of netethae and remove leaves for use. Combine with the top leaves of the top branch of nelmaha. Chew the leaves and drink the juice. Do this when the sun is setting on the horizon. The woman gives the leftover fibers to the person who prepared the medicine and that person goes and throws the fibers in the direction of the setting sun. 4. To cure toothache when pregnant - Take the inner bark from Intejed and boil it in a pot of seawater (about 1 liter) along with 2 leaves from each of inpounatmas, narayag, nahayag, and nelmaha. Boil until juice is visibly leaving the plants. Put this water into your mouth and hold it there for 2-3 minutes. Do this this with one cup in the morning, 1 cup in the afternoon, and 1 cup in the evening. 5. Used to fight against black magic in an unspecified way. 6. Roll leaf and put in pocket for protection when walk in a new area. 7. Message plant if a land dispute – if a person puts this stem or leaf in another’s garden whom they are angry with it means go away!! 8. To treat sick people, especially who fall ill from black magic to save their life. Symptoms vary, for example a person with small boils over body,* a person chews the leaf and spits it on the sick person, 1x and then puts the branch with leaves near the sick person when they sleep – 3x (1x day) branch is ca. 25cm long. (*headache, severe)

Scientific name: Ficus littoralis, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

[nɛʝɲan natimi] n.

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

Speaker: Osiani Nerian

n.

Scientific name: Acanthus ilicifolius, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Scientific name: Dysoxylum molle, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

[nepiŋ sepahaj] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 100

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 100

n.

Scientific name: Micromelum minutum, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

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

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 140

[niʧinɛθoʊn] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 102

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

n.

Speaker: Chris Nevehev

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120

n.

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

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 103

inter.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

[nowataŋ] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Example: 1. Use the leaves to put in a hole where taro is being planted, as a sort of fertilizer--it rots easily and adds value to the soil. To protect a person from spirits if you are going to an unfamiliar place, take the young inflorescence and put behind your ear. This plant is a sort of "spiritual kava." 2. Flowers are put behind one ear, any side, to allow a person to pass through sacred places. For protection of the spirits especially if you are familiar with this place. On EAST SIDE, put one leaf under pillow before sleeping so that the lady spirit will not disturb the person. Only for men – spirit likes men, and wants to have sleep with them. If she gets pregnant, you must follow her to look after the kids in the spirit world so you leave this one (you die). 3. The small, straight stems of this plant are used as rafters to weave thatch. 4. Children make bows and arrows from the stems as well as spears for fishing.

Scientific name: Macropiper latifolium, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Example: Fruit: eaten raw, constipation

Speaker: Bradacs 2011, p. 444

n.

Example: Use the wood of this plant for roof rafters.

Scientific name: Syzygium myriadenum, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120

n.

Example: flower ovary taken internally against ciguatera

Speaker: Bradacs 2011, p. 441

prep.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

adv.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 108

adv.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

n.

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

Speaker: Romario Yaufati