Aneityum

[aɣes noraŋitei] phr.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 48

v.a.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

v.a.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

v.n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

adv.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

v.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

[araheθ] n.

Speaker: Osiani Nerian

[asvii naret̚o] phr.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

v

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 121

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 166

[et aʤuʤaj an ouʤeiko] phr.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

n.

Example: The young leaves are edible; these should be collected, boiled for ca. 8 minutes and eaten with other foods such as cassava. This is one of the local leaves that is said to taste quite good when cooked and mixed with other foods. Both the ripe (red) and unripe (green) fruits are added to soup and other foods as a spice or eaten fresh. The fruit of this cultivar is very hot. The fruit is also fed to chickens who seem to love to eat it.

Scientific name: Capsicum annuum, Speaker: Tony Keith

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120

n.

Example: 1. Flying foxes are known to eat the fruit. Accordingly, when hunters desire the flying fox, they gather near this species.

Scientific name: Dysoxylum aneityense, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Example: The young stems of this tree are used to make spears, either by sharpening the end or attaching several wires to the tip.

Scientific name: Alangium vitiense, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Example: 1. To cure the sea snake (nispev) curse that causes missed periods. First the husband must combine 4 young leaves of incispev and 4 young leaves of nafanu and mash and squeeze the juice into a small bamboo (1-1.5 inch diameter) The nafanu is important because it is a plant that connects to the sea. Use wildcane leaves cover the bamboo closed. Go to the sick person and unwrap the snake from her. Start from the top and let the woman drink a small part of the potion then wash her with the mixture, making sure to wash head, elbows, knees, feet, and belly. Then take a leaf of naha and break it over the woman’s belly button to break the snake off. Smash the bamboo vessel to pieces. Leave the woman there until the wash dries on her. This takes one whole day and the ceremony in the evening so she can sleep and she must not eat. This ritual is performed by men.

Scientific name: Sophora tomentosa, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Scientific name: Hedychium coronarium, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 113

[inʤap] n.

Speaker: Chris Nevehev

n.

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

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Example: 1. The inner bark of this plant is used as a general rope; peel it and weave it into rope, and use it to tie beams in the house. 2. The wood is good to start fires by rubbing two pieces together.

Scientific name: Trichospermum inmac, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

[inmoiʤev ʤupʤupura] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Example: The young stems of this tree are very light, and used to make spears for fishing--they float. The stems are used to make the poles that connect the outrigger to the canoe. Good to make a fishing spear with as with others, timber. Leaves used with other plants to heal a sick woman who is sick from a male spirit – PARALELCEI – This lead with other leaves unspecified, tie together pound juice out of it and put juice in bamboo, cover top w/ wild cane leaf and take to sick woman before sunset, give to her to drink, before wave bamboo around her, open it and pour a bit on her head and drink a bit and wash her face, then break bamboo and discard it before sunset. Then tell spirit to go away. Symptoms such as a miscarriage or continued period, or dream and see the male spirit, or dream of snakes from the forest.

Scientific name: Calophyllum neoebudicum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

n.

Example: 1. Many plants resemble this species, and are called by this name. 2. Babies who always cry – rub leaves, put them in bath where baby will bathe and this will help stop crying. 3. Ornament for around the house.

Scientific name: Pseuderanthemum longifolium, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Example: 1. The name means "white hair". It is not known why that is the case.

Scientific name: Calanthe chrysantha, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

[inwerijweɪ] n.

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

Speaker: Osiani Nerian

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

[kurimataʊ] n.

Speaker: Osiani Nerian

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

adv.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[nadimi desiiʧ] phr.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 94

[nafirama] n.

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

Speaker: Osiani Nerian

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

n. p.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 94

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Example: Normally these fruits are considered poisonous. But, people have learned to peel off the skin of the fruits, put the peeled fruits in a conical basked and place a bamboo tube that is dripping water over it to wash the basket of fruits for 3-5 days. This is said to leach out the poison and the end result is similar in consistency to cheese. Wrap this up with leaves and put it in an earth oven to cook. This plant is eaten as a "starvation food" only, consumed in times of drought and famine.

Scientific name: Dioscorea bulbifera, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 151

n.

Example: Used to make small poles for house rafters.

Scientific name: Myristica fatua, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120

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.

Example: 1. As a medicine for dengue fever, take a handful of stem apices of this plant, boil in 1-2 cups of water and drink this amount 3x daily, cold, until the fever goes away. This treatment is said to give a person strength during the course of the illness. 2. Take top branch – 2 leaves and put under baby’s pillow, baby will fall into a deep sleep.

Scientific name: Physalis angulata, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[nawʊn nɛθoʊn] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 96

n.

Example: The flowers are cut and used in the house and the plant is grown as an ornamental around the house.

Scientific name: Euphorbia pulcherrima, Speaker: Tony Keith

n.

Example: 1. The name refers to a crustacean and also to the spines of bamboo.

Scientific name: Prosaptia contigua, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 127

n.

Example: This plant has an unspecified use that is considered secret.

Scientific name: Breynia disticha, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

n.

Example: The fruit is edible when ripe and when it is younger can be eaten with salt. The young leaves are eaten raw, after being rubbed with coconut meat and salt. Cover pork to be cooked in the oven with the leaves of this plant, tie them on with a rope made from Pandanus leaf and put taro on the fire as well. The oily part of the pig will mix with the taro and enhance its flavor.

Scientific name: Ficus scabra, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

[nawuraniŋ upni] phr.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

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 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.

Scientific name: Acalypha grandis, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

[nɛθoʊn] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 98

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 114

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 98

n.

Scientific name: Asplenium amboinense, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[nɛʝɲan] n.

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

Speaker: Osiani Nerian

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120

n.

Scientific name: Micromelum minutum, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Scientific name: Youngia japonica, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

[nijaʊ] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 113

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 127, 178

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[nipʧin ɲelas] n.

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

Speaker: Osiani Nerian

n.

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

Example: 1. There are kinds of this plant. This is considered the white one. See GMP # 4100, textit{Cyathea sp}, which is considered the black one.

Scientific name: Cyathea

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 103

[nohos upene] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 156

n.

Example: This plant is an indicator of rich soil, especially up on the hills from the coast. Therefore, this is where people choose to do their gardens. This specimen is in red soil that is not rich so it does not grow tall, but in the mountains it does grow tall and that is where gardens are planted. Wood from the tree is used for carving.

Scientific name: Weinmannia denhamii, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Example: The wood of this plant is very hard and can be used for house posts. Because the wood is somewhat heavy, younger stems can be sharpened at one end and the pole can be used to plant dryland taro, to make holes for the tubers. For planting swamp taro, the leaves can be used to line the pit that the taro is planted in; it is a local fertilizer for the taro, and as it rots the soil becomes soft while the taro is growing. The flowers are placed behind one’s ear to enjoy the fragrance or can also be used to make a floral necklace (Intañ).

Scientific name: Fagraea berteroana, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Example: juice squeezed from leaves; wounds

Speaker: Bradacs 2011, p. 440

n.

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

Scientific name: Ctenochaetus striatus, Speaker: Chris Nevehev

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 172

[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: Inglis 1882, p. 104

n.

Example: Join two of the inrolled fronds together at the part where the frond is opening (the tip that is curled) such that the leaves are held together by their unfolding growing tips. Place this along the path that is frequented by a wild pig (they travel along paths) and when the pig passes these two leaves, and is chased by a hunter’s dogs, these leaves in this formation are said to sap some of the pig’s energy and thus allow the dogs to catch up with it. This was explained to Tony by another person who mentioned it as a sort of magical power possessed by this type of fern.

Scientific name: Blechnopsis orientalis, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

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

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 111