Aneityum

v.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

adj.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

v.n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

v.n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

v.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

v.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 121

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 166

phr.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 77

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 82

conj.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

adj.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

[inɣaɣen] n.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

n.

Example: Red, dried fruits are fed to small chicks as food.

Scientific name: Rivina humilis, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

[inhuʤum] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

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

Scientific name: Balistoides viridescens via FishBase, Speaker: Chris Nevehev

n.

Scientific name: Passiflora suberosa, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 114

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 86

n.

Scientific name: Phlegmariurus phlegmaria, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[inmohoɣ la] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 89

[intas anejʧom] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 89

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 89

n.

Example: Children like to eat the fruit of this plant. It is said to taste like pineapple/mango. It must be very ripe to be eaten. Peel and discard the skin. The fruit is most sweet when it is on the ground for a few days. Some children eat the seeds of this fruit but it has a strong oily taste--too many cause vomiting and if a person eats 1-2 seeds it can cause diarrhea.

Scientific name: Ximenia americana, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Example: This plant is the focus of an important legend on Aneityum. When the missionary John Geddie and colleaguse first arrived on the island in July of 1848, the Chiefs welcomed them but some of the people did not like the idea. So these people sent a basket containing a peeled coconut and a fish (nopom) to the Chief in Umej to ask him to support the idea of getting rid of the missionary that the Chief of Analcahuat had welcomed. If the Chief of Umej were to eat the fish and coconut meat, it would mean that he agreed with the opposition. The Chief refused to eat the food in the basket and he told the people a parable involving this plant. A person cannot find the tip of the stem or the end of the root in the ground. So if they were to eliminate the missionary, his activity would continue because of God’s power. As it is with this plant, it will continue to grow and flourish if you cut it or try to dig up the root. So he sent a message about this plant to the people in Analcahuat who objected to the presence of the missionary stating this parable. Those people in Analcauhat held a secret meeting and they chose a powerful and strong person to kill the missionary. During the night the person went to the missionary’s house while he was in the toilet. Returning to the house, the missionary found the person in his doorway, and that person lifted his club to strike the missionary. But at that point the attacker’s hands suddenly had no power and the club fell from his hands, and he fell over. The missionary told him to get up, and not come back. After that experience, the people of Umej realized that God’s power was great and they could not go against it. The Chief took the peeled coconut that was sent him and covered it with the skin of another coconut and planted it instead of eating it. This coconut grew and the missionary’s work continued to grow on the island. So this vine played an important role in communicating the power of God to the people of Aneityum.

Speaker: Tony Keith

n.

Scientific name: Endiandra aneityensis, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Example: 1. Timber is often harvested and sold from this tree. 2. Flying foxes enjoy the fruits of this tree. Hunters gather nearby this species when the flying foxes are hunted.

Scientific name: Sideroxylon aneityense, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

[kuratehen] n.

Speaker: Osiani Nerian

[lawoñ] n.

Example: Photo by Dubi Shapiro, IBC1406511. Photo of Vanuatu Scrubfowl Megapodius layardi at Palikulo Point, Vanuatu. Accessible on Internet Bird Collection

Scientific name: Megapodius layardi, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 93

n.

Scientific name: Coix lacryma-jobi, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Example: The nut of this tree is edible. Crack open the fruit and eat the seed raw. It can also be used to plug holes in a canoe.

Scientific name: Canarium harveyi, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Scientific name: Ophioderma pendula, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

n.

Example: 1. The ripe fruits (yellow) are eaten. It is considered very sweet. 2. Young saplings are used to fashion a digging stick to plant kava and taro.

Scientific name: Garcinia pseudoguttifera, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Example: Stems of this tree are used to make canoes as they are always straight. Tree can also be used to for timber and as firewood.

Scientific name: Serianthes ebudarum, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[nakajaŋ a nijman] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Scientific name: Maesa aneiteensis, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Example: To cook Alocasia (wild taro), use the dry wood of this plant as firewood. The leaves of this plant are also used to line the earth oven on top of the food and on bottom of the food to insulate it from the high heat of cooking.

Scientific name: Canthium odoratum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 114

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 127

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 113

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Scientific name: Phrynium giganteum, Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Example: 1. Heat the leaves then place on the sore muscle. 2. Edible plant, cook young leaves until soft and then can eat, as a vegetable or soup, with any food. 3. Same use as AAM 3 to heat and put on body to heal pain. 4. On a reef when it is time to protect the reef to conserve it and bring more fish, you take this plant and put it in the hole in the reef – cut stem and put it in reef in several parts. People will know it is under protection and respect it.

Scientific name: Polyscias multijuga, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Example: Use this plant to send a message to someone that another person has died. Take 1 dried leaf, to pass message to another village/tribe or people. Hold it in your hand and walk past a person, then they know that someone has died.

Scientific name: Selaginella distans, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Example: The leaves of this plant are used to treat stomach ache. Take a handful of leaves and mix with 1/2 liter of water, crush the leaves in the water and drink the entire amount when your stomach hurts. Alternatively, this can also be consumed 1x a week as a tonic drink for the stomach and system.

Scientific name: Vigna marina, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Crenimugil crenilabis via FishBase, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 98

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Example: 1. It is considered "tabu" to cover laplap with the leaf of this species. It is said to spoil the laplap.

Scientific name: Delarbrea paradoxa, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 98

n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

[neplaroʊ] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 128

n.

Scientific name: Micromelum minutum, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Example: The fruits are edible when ripe--eating them turns the tongue purple. 1. 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. 2. Ancestors 4 top branches and chew and spit out remaining fiber will destroy the effects of a love potion that is too strong – meaning that the husband or wife will miss the other person too much so that they become mentally ill. 3. Edible fruits: eating them turns tongue black/purple.

Scientific name: Melastoma malabathricum, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Example: The name of this plant means "division" -- if someone wants to help to destroy your business or home, they put this plant in front of your business or your home and this will help to scatter out your family from where they are living.

Scientific name: Vernonia cinerea, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 100

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 101

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 102

n.

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

Speaker: Jack Keitadi

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

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

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Example: Stalk: chewed, agaist headache

Speaker: Bradacs 2011, p. 443

n.

Example: Photo by J.E. Randall / Fishbase, License: CC BY-A-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Selar crumenophthalmus via FishBase, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

[nohos anu ziland] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

[nohos u natmas] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

n.

Example: To build a cyclone house, take the vine of this species to tie pieces of the house. To prepare the vine for use as rope, collect many feet of it, put it in a fire, roll it in a figure 8, wait until it softens and then use for tying. This vine is hard and

Scientific name: Jasminum didymum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 104

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 113

n.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[nupʧin hoθaiŋ] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Scientific name: Carpoxylon macrospermum

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 106

v.n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 180

adv.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 108

adv.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 108

adv.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 108

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 121

n.

Example: If a person has the flu, collect the fruits and chew and swallow them. Chew 3 fruits in the morning for 3 days. Take a handful of leaves, still on branches, and boil them in a half liter of water, for 15 minutes. Drink 1 cup daily for 5 days or until the sickness "goes down."

Scientific name: Sida rhombifolia, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 111