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acesare
adj. sun just down
bookmarkacrac
baby crawling
bookmarkafwafwa
n. beat coconut fiber
bookmarkahlau se
v.n. go down
bookmarkcustard apple
n. tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3520)
Example: Children sometimes eat this fruit but it smells bad. Adults do not eat it. An introduced species so there is no local name.
bookmarkehlili
v. to burn ground for planting
bookmarkemilmat
adj. green, blue
bookmarkeriseris
v.a. to climb
bookmarketcei nohon
n. beat coconut fiber
bookmarkeucte
v. to begin to blossom
bookmarkigca pam
phr. on this side
bookmarkincesmetaig
n. kind of sugarcane
bookmarkincuwukava
ingitjiñat
n. small tree, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3528)
Example: 1. This plant is used as firewood, but also the heartwood is sold. 2. In 2016, the first grade wood was 2500 VT per kilo, the second grade wood was 2000 VT per kilo. 3. The ancestors used to take the oil or wood chips from this tree and bathe with it to keep away evil spirits of the forest. It is currently planted on Aneityum for commerce. Scrape bark of sandalwood into coconut oil in same wat as GMP 3513 (gardenia) boil and take out the bark. 4. The leaves can be fed to pigs to make them strong and heavy.
bookmarkinjupki
n. afternoon
bookmarkinjupki upni
inmoso
n. fog or mist
bookmarkinpece lelicai
n. kind of tree
bookmarkinp̃al
n. treelet or shrub, 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3204)
Example: To treat a headache, people traditionally would make a small cut ¼ inch long with a bamboo or piece of glass around the eyebrows where it is soft and then drip juice of the crushed leaves in the cut to take away the pain. Let the cut bleed first and then put the juice in it and it will stop the pain. The bleeding will stop the pain and the leaf juice will stop the bleeding – sometimes the pain will go away immediately and sometimes it takes a few minutes. So this technique is used to treat a very strong headache like a migraine.
bookmarkintoutau
n. tree, 7-8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3635)
Example: The wood from this tree is used for house posts. Used to heal bad spirits, headaches, fever, or any other kind of illness that modern medicine cannot fix. Must be taken and performed in the evening before the sun sets. Take four leaves from the top of the intoutau, netethae, nelmaha, inrowod plants. Combine them with 1/4 cup of water and squeeze the juice out of the leaves and pour into a piece of bamboo. Give the mixture to the sick person to drink. The woman must drink half of the mixture and use the other half of the mixture to wash their body with. The woman then has to stay away from other people except for those who helped wash her. Then you must smash the bamboo that contained the mixture where the sun sets.
bookmarkjupmulmul
n. the cool of the evening
bookmarkkoliavan
n. kind of taro
bookmarkmeto
adj. ripe; also "metto"
bookmarknahmas
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknahrin
n. half-tide when ebbing
bookmarknahtaicai
n. plant
bookmarknakautefa
n. kind of tree
bookmarknake
nalauba
[nalauba] n. Emerald Dove
Example: Photo by Dr. Raju Kasambe/Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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namou
nanedauyan
n. Pacific yellowtail emperor
Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknapleañ
napupwi
n. kind of sugarcane
bookmarknatarau
n. a bamboo flute
bookmarknathut an nadiat
n. near morning
bookmarknausakrai
n. thorn
bookmarknauun
n. a stem
bookmarknecsap̃
n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3534)
Example: This tree has very hard wood. 1. Use the small stems to plant dry land or swamp taro, sharpening the end and pushing it into the ground to make a hole. 2. It also is useful for fence, posts for houses. 3. Small stems are also used to make a comb for the hair. 4. Plant pole for taro kava. 5. A branch is shaped and used to husk coconut. 6. The wood is hard and in ancient times people would take a forked piece and put string on one side of it, sharpen the other side and use with the string as a fish hook – need to keep rope tight until it is in the canoe. Do not give it slack – strong use AAM 17.
bookmarkneduon yau
n. kind of banana
bookmarknejeg
n. tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3514)
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.
bookmarknelehel
n. a light wind
bookmarknemla
n. tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4127)
Example: 1. This wood can be used to start a fire, where there are no matches. Two dried pieces of wood are rubbed vigorously together to create tinder. The tinder is then added to dried material in order to start a fire. 2. The wood of this plant is used as rafters in traditional houses.
bookmarknenho
n. the name of a poisonous plant
bookmarknepat
n. kind of banana
bookmarknepigpig
n. before daylight
bookmarknete o un
n. west
bookmarkneyaiñ
nipjid
n. the orange tree (117); an orange, a lime, a lemon (102)
bookmarkniri atga
nithidao
nohun
n. stem
bookmarknopwag
noyeiwow
n. vine to 4 m, cultivated (collection: Michael J. Balick #5013)
Example: This is a cultivated, edible tuber. If a cyclone comes and blows the vines, the tuber will still be intact. The vines of this type of Dioscorea are very strong. Normal yam vine tears in high winds and the tuber will not grow for food but will die; this one will not. It is very good for places with strong winds and storms.
bookmarknuarin
n. plat (a map, drawn to scale, showing divisions in a piece of land)
bookmarknumurumu
numuyehec
nupyihet
n. new moon
bookmarkpokmi
adv. seaward here
bookmarkugnyiv
adj. rich; good, as applied to fruits
bookmarkupumure
v.n. to fall, as unripe fruit
bookmarkyah
n. a creeping plant
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