Aneityum

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

v.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

pro.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

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

Scientific name: Myripristis violacea via FishBase, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 72

v.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 77

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Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 77

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 78

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Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 81

adj.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

n.

Scientific name: Macropiper latifolium, Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

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Example: The stems of this tree are used to make temporary houses and for firewood. This is one of the leaves that is used in an unspecified mixture to put in a rough sea to calm th ewaters.

Scientific name: Syzygium richii, Speaker: Tony Keith

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Scientific name: Hedychium coronarium, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

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Example: In ancient times this plant was used as a fiber to make skirts and rope. Take the stems, remove the leaves, rett the stems in sea water for a few weeks, sun dry the stems and then weave into rope or skirts. This plant is not much used for this purpose at the present time. This plant is used to make a medicine with an unspecified use.

Scientific name: Abutilon indicum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

[inhɛloŋ] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

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Example: Good for covering laplap or stone oven. Remove hot stones, put leaves down, then food, then hot stones, then put the leaves down again to cover everything.

Scientific name: Codiaeum variegatum, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 87

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 87

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[inmohoɣ la] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Example: The seeds of this species are eaten, the fruits are cracked open and the seeds removed. However, perhaps of 10 fruits, maybe only 3 have seeds for eating. The flowers are known to have a very pleasant fragrance.

Scientific name: Terminalia sepicana, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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

Scientific name: Acanthurus guttatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chris Nevehev

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Example: Photo by jidanchaomian / Flickr, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Plectropomus laevis via FishBase, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Scientific name: Coelogyne lamellata, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

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Example: The ripe fruits of this plant are edible and said to be delicious as well as smell very good. When the fruits turn brown and soft you can open it and there will be a shell like an upsidedown turtle shell. You can eat the fruit out. As the fruit smells good, people put a basket of ripe fruits in their homes to give it a good smell. The unripe fruits can be eaten, but only when cooked in an earth oven so it is not sticky. The tree can be used for sawn timber. Can be used for building house, specifically the house posts. Number one timber.

Scientific name: Burckella obovata, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 90

[kajheɣ vajuɣ] phr.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

[katamal] n.

Example: Photo by patrickkavanagh/Flickr, License: CC BY 2.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Petroica multicolor, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

n.

Example: This plant produces an edible fruit, but it is smaller than the cultivated guava, and is considered the wild type. Firewood. Pinch 4 tops and chew and swallow for stomach ache and diarrhea.

Scientific name: Psidium guajava, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 92

[maja ga oʔo] phr.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Speaker: Ruben Nerian

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

Scientific name: Plectorhinchus chaetodonoides via FishBase, Speaker: Chris Nevehev

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Example: Small poles from this plant are used to make fishing spears, and larger stems used for house rafters.

Scientific name: Tarenna efatensis, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

[nalak ŋaɣeseɣa] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Scientific name: Davallia pusilla, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 114

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 114

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

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 113

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Example: This is a "message plant" that signifies that there has been a death. The person holds it or puts it on their head, goes to another person’s house and hands it to the person they wish to convey the message to, without saying anything and that person knows that someone has died. It can also be handed to that person. The person receiving the message then asks "who" and is told the deceased person’s name.

Scientific name: Selaginella durvillei, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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Scientific name: Acalypha wilkesiana, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

[neijaŋ] n.

Speaker: Osiani Nerian

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Example: Children suck the nectar from the young flowers just as they open. Wood from this plant is used for poles for rafters as well as for firewood. Flying foxes drink juice from the flowers.

Scientific name: Geissois denhamii, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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Example: This plant is used to make fishing line, perhaps moreso in the past than today. Collect young shoots form the sides of the tree, peel off the bark, soak the stem in salt water or fresh water for 1-2 weeks to ret the stems then separate the fibers, dry in the sun and use to make string for fishing. The leaves are used for feeding pigs.

Scientific name: Nothocnide (?) repanda, Speaker: Tony Keith

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 99

n.

Scientific name: Astronidium aneityense, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

[neriseris] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

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

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Example: The root is used as a survival food, during famine, cook roots on fire and eat. Roast on charcoal.

Scientific name: Pteridium esculentum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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Example: The green fruits are edible, as are the young leaf apices--cook these in water and eat them. The wood is used for temporary houses, for example, to provide shade in a garden. For planting taro, or any root crop, sharpen the end of a stick of this tree and use it for making holes, particuarly in river sand where some crops are planted. This tree grows near the river and is an indication that this land is good for agriculture. The wood from the tree is very good for firewood. Name means "who are you." Plant used as an indicator of a tabu place. Take a branch and put it where another person is building or gardening and there is a dispute over that area of land. When this plant is placed there the person who is using the land should stop working it.

Scientific name: Ficus adenosperma, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 114

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 131

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Example: When the flowers of this plant are green, it is an indication that the cool season is approaching; when the flowers are brown, the dry season is coming. The wood is used to make rafters for the roof of houses, on which to tie thatch.

Scientific name: Commersonia bartramia, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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Example: People who go fishing take this plant along with other unspecified leaves, crush them and rub them on the fishing line that the person is using. This is said to attract more fish to the bait. It is also a "message plant" to be put in a person’s hat when they come back from fishing and then people know that they caught fish. Local name means "fish gill." For performing a weather magic ritual to produce fog, this plant is fermented along with another plant (nap̃at) in a hole in a sacred stone (called "Naemoso") at a secret location on Aneityum.

Scientific name: Schizaea dichotoma, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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Example: This plant has a secret, unspecified use.

Scientific name: Microsorum grossum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

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Example: This tree is a good source of wood for house posts and roof rafters. Some people eat the ripe fruits of this species but even on the same tree, some of the ripe fruits have a sour taste, even though they look alike.

Scientific name: Syzygium nomoa, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

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

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[nopsiʧman] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

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Example: juice squeezed from leaves; wounds

Speaker: Bradacs 2011, p. 440

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Example: 1. Considered to be a relative of Morinda citrifolia.

Scientific name: Neuburgia corynocarpa, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

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Example: Photo by Ian Shaw / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Acanthurus olivaceus, Speaker: Chris Nevehev

[nowanʧa] n.

Speaker: Osiani Nerian

[noweɪ yaŋ] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 113

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Example: This vine is collected, rolled in a figure 8 and put on a fire to soften it and used to tie posts. It is tied when warm, because when it cools it is very strong, "like wire." It does not burn on the fire, only become soft. It is said to be excellent for the construction of cyclone houses, it shrinks after heating to make a very strong rope.

Scientific name: Melodinus neoebudicus, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Example: This vine is used to make rope. Collect the stem, roll it in a figure 8, heat it on a fire and tie it on a house while the vine is still hot. Weave a ?? net to catch fish.

Scientific name: Smilax vitiensis, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

adv.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 108

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 110

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 112

v.n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 109