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aces nohranitai

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[aɣes noraŋitei] phr. sing a song

ages

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v. remove shell of horse-chestnuts by biting; to shell "inmop"

ahii

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n. white (color)

aj

[aj] v. fly

ak

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pro. you

anpeke aranma

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n. island of breadfruit

ap̃ok

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v. go out

aridjai

v.a. to ascend, to go up

as vakuei

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[as vakuej] v. break something circular (like a fruit); break something lengthwise

atcijaig pok nelcau

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v.n. sail from deep water

edel

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v. to grow

erop̃rop̃

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v. to fish

et hal timi

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[et hal t̚imi ] phr. some people

eucupupu (nieg)

v. to swell, as reeds when near blossoming

fetofeto

The fruits of this species are cracked open and the seeds eaten. The leaves are mixed with other leaves to make an unspecified traditional medicine. The plant is also used for firewood.
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n. tree, 7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3723)

Example: The fruits of this species are cracked open and the seeds eaten. The leaves are mixed with other leaves to make an unspecified traditional medicine. The plant is also used for firewood.

fotyofo

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n. kind of crab

incip̃iñ ti

incip̃iñ ti
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n. tree to 6 m, dbh 8 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #5002)

incowos yag

n. plant used to make ceremonial head wreath and neck garland

inhau

n. kind of tree

inholai

Kyphosus cinerascens http://fishbase.org/summary/Kyphosus-cinerascens.html
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n. Blue sea chub, snubnose chub, topsail drummer

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

injañad

The wood is light and used to make paddles for canoes.
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n. tree to 5 m, dbh 8 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4933)

Example: The wood is light and used to make paddles for canoes.

injivij

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n. kind of fish

ink

This is an introduced species. Use ripe fruits to produce a kind of ink for writing.
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n. vine to 1 m, flowers greenish (collection: Michael J. Balick #4904)

Example: This is an introduced species. Use ripe fruits to produce a kind of ink for writing.

inmac

Trichospermum inmac
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n. tree, 7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4124)

inmadineto

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n. kind of fish

inmehtit

n. breadfruit crop in October

inmerinwai

n. kind of breadfruit

inmo tanman

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n. kind of bird

inm̃ada

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n. kind of fish

inm̃ap̃

1. The nut of this tree is edible and very good. Boil it with skin on or bake it in the earth oven and then cut it in half and eat. 2. Leaves for top of house ridge. 3. Leaves for fertilizing the water taro in swamps.
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n. tree, 12-14 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3611)

Example: 1. The nut of this tree is edible and very good. Boil it with skin on or bake it in the earth oven and then cut it in half and eat. 2. Leaves for top of house ridge. 3. Leaves for fertilizing the water taro in swamps.

inpakanhas

The stems are used for house posts as they are very strong.
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n. fallen tree, growing in coastal vegetation along strand. Flowers orange. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3554)

Example: The stems are used for house posts as they are very strong.

inran

n. a branch

intal eteuc

n. the name of a plant with a white flower; a lily

intal has

n. kind of taro

inteijid

n. species of pine

intelecha

This plant is a "message flower." If a person puts this flower behind their ear or in their hat, and looks at another person, it is an invitation to that person to go with you to the nakamal. Or a man invites a woman to go somewhere with him. Alternatively, you can leave the flower on a table and this is also a message to go with a person. Leaves also used to wrap foods. Decorate yard around the house.
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n. terrestrial orchid, growing in open area at edge of forest (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3480)

Example: This plant is a "message flower." If a person puts this flower behind their ear or in their hat, and looks at another person, it is an invitation to that person to go with you to the nakamal. Or a man invites a woman to go somewhere with him. Alternatively, you can leave the flower on a table and this is also a message to go with a person. Leaves also used to wrap foods. Decorate yard around the house.

intisiaicai

n. kind of flower or flowers (see def. for "elwa")

intohou ataheñ

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n. kind of shellfish

inwow ityuwun

Cassytha filiformis
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n. yellow colored vine to 1 m tall, flower buds white (collection: Michael J. Balick #4879)

inwowityuwun

Cassytha filiformis
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n. parasitic vine hanging off the side of a cliff, growing along coast. Fruits green. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4147)

inyapwit

n. kind of tree

inyau

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n. whale

kiliek nahpu

n. kind of taro

nacal

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n. kind of bird

nafakaka

n. a blossom; the spathe of a coconut used as light; also "nafaketa"

nairek

To make a local broom, gather a group of branches of this plant, tie together, burn off the leaves when they are dry and then use to sweep (photo with Wopa).
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n. shrub to 2 m, dbh 5 com (collection: Michael J. Balick #4875)

Example: To make a local broom, gather a group of branches of this plant, tie together, burn off the leaves when they are dry and then use to sweep (photo with Wopa).

najgau

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n. kind of fish

nakrai

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n. kind of bush

nalak

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n. kind of fish

nalefpei

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n. kind of bird

napanaunuñ eda

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[napanaunuŋ eθa] phr. where are you going?

napun nitai caig

n. the skin or rind of food

narpomyiv

1. Children often take the leaves of this plant and blow across the surface of a taut leaf to make a whistle sound. Older folks say this blowing invited rain.
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n. epiphytic orchid, growing in dense rainforest. Flowers orange. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4113)

Example: 1. Children often take the leaves of this plant and blow across the surface of a taut leaf to make a whistle sound. Older folks say this blowing invited rain.

natcai

n. kind of plant, grass, or fern

natoga matahau an jap

natoga matahau an jap

n. the north-east-east wind

natuh

n. a sweet-smelling plant

nau hos

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. 2. To make house walls cut to length desired break stems into straps and weave ??. 3. Use stem to cook foods. 4. Container for carrying water. 5. Take tips and tie together and make a torch to go fishing on the reef, walk with the torch – this is a current practice in the East side. 6. Can cut a piece about 1’ long and sharpen edge and use to skin a green banana. 7. Traditional medicine – can use a small segment as a sort of container to carry the traditional medicine to the patient – for example when prepare a sea snake for remedy, or any medicine – to carry it. 8. Used as a container to preserve seeds such as corn, cucumber, beans and is covered with coconut fiber and put near (above?) the fire where it is dry, and the smoke from the fire will keep insects from attacking the seeds.
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n. a kind of bamboo (collection: Ashley A McGuigan #25)

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. 2. To make house walls cut to length desired break stems into straps and weave ??. 3. Use stem to cook foods. 4. Container for carrying water. 5. Take tips and tie together and make a torch to go fishing on the reef, walk with the torch – this is a current practice in the East side. 6. Can cut a piece about 1’ long and sharpen edge and use to skin a green banana. 7. Traditional medicine – can use a small segment as a sort of container to carry the traditional medicine to the patient – for example when prepare a sea snake for remedy, or any medicine – to carry it. 8. Used as a container to preserve seeds such as corn, cucumber, beans and is covered with coconut fiber and put near (above?) the fire where it is dry, and the smoke from the fire will keep insects from attacking the seeds.

naualha

n. kind of plant, grass, or fern

nawod

1. The wood of this tree is used to make temporary houses, for example, when making a garden by the river. 2. The wood can be sawn into timber. 3. People collect red leaf and put under tongue when want to talk about conflicted issues such as a dispute to make their argument stronger.
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n. tree, 12 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3641)

Example: 1. The wood of this tree is used to make temporary houses, for example, when making a garden by the river. 2. The wood can be sawn into timber. 3. People collect red leaf and put under tongue when want to talk about conflicted issues such as a dispute to make their argument stronger.

neaig ahi

n. a white coconut

neau

n. a small water-plant

necditahou

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n. kind of crab

necec u prikad

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n. kind of crab

necñopod

Acalypha grandis
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n. shrub, somewhat scandent (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3443)

neducai inhujid

n. kind of tree

nefelan

Photo by K. David Harrison, April 2016.
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[nefelan] n. a path

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

negeʧwai

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n. kind of bird

nehep

1. Used as a medicine to help stop bleeding. Take the inner bark, mash it, and dip in water. Then apply the poultice to the bleeding wound to help stop the bleeding. This treatment will also promote healing of the wound. When the poultice dries it becomes hard and sticks to the wound. At that point leave it on the wound until the pain goes away and then it can be peeled off of the wound. 2. Wood good for making canoe.
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n. tree, 15 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3590)

Example: 1. Used as a medicine to help stop bleeding. Take the inner bark, mash it, and dip in water. Then apply the poultice to the bleeding wound to help stop the bleeding. This treatment will also promote healing of the wound. When the poultice dries it becomes hard and sticks to the wound. At that point leave it on the wound until the pain goes away and then it can be peeled off of the wound. 2. Wood good for making canoe.

neisindien

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[nɛjsindiɛn] n. fish anus

nejecjeñ

Leucosyke australis
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n. tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3652)

neka

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n. Group of fish including triggerfish, wrasses, chubs, mullets, jacks, and sweetlips

nekro

Boil inner bark in seawater to treat scabies, a skin condition. Take one handful of bark and put in one liter of water, wash the affected area once daily for a week .
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n. tree to 8 m, dbh 20 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4916)

Example: Boil inner bark in seawater to treat scabies, a skin condition. Take one handful of bark and put in one liter of water, wash the affected area once daily for a week .

nepjenwai

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n. kind of fish (folk name)

nerid u uncat

n. the tow of flax

nerop

n. kind of banana

nesga nemtan

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[ɲɛsŋa nɛmtan] n. eye

netcetas

The stems of this plant make a good digging stick for planting kava. Kava planted with this digging stick will be stronger in effect.
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n. tree 10 m tall, dbh 15 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4909)

Example: The stems of this plant make a good digging stick for planting kava. Kava planted with this digging stick will be stronger in effect.

nihivaiñpap

Macaranga tanarius
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n. kind of flowering plant (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4779)

nipʧin njelas

Photo by K. David Harrison, April 2016.
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[nipʧin ɲelas] n. crab

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

nititidei

This plant has a secret, unspecified use.
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n. epiphytic liana on main trunk of Hernandia moerenhoutiana, growing in secondary forest above river. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3658)

Example: This plant has a secret, unspecified use.

nohmunjap

n. beach

nohor

n. kind of taro

nohos esjig inwai

n. a banana

nohwan yag

n. kind of taro

nomotmot

n. grass

noyeiwow

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.
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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.

nuei

Melodinus glaber
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n. kind of flowering plant (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4762)

nuei

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 needs to be heated to a high temperature in the fire to make it soft; the person preparing this must use gloves to tie it to the posts and rafters while it is still warm. When it cools, it is very strong. Rope made from this vine will last a long time--perhaps 10-15 years. It can also be used to make a regular house.
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n. vine, growing in open disturbed area. Flowers white. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3589)

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 needs to be heated to a high temperature in the fire to make it soft; the person preparing this must use gloves to tie it to the posts and rafters while it is still warm. When it cools, it is very strong. Rope made from this vine will last a long time--perhaps 10-15 years. It can also be used to make a regular house.

nuhialeg

n. the morning

nuhlinevai

n. kind of banana

numnyac

n. a kind of bulbous root

numujced

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.
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n. terrestrial fern, 0. 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3577)

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.

nuputuligighap

n. stem of coconut leaf

nälmaha

n. Ficus septica var. cauliflora

pine

This tree was introduced as a source of timber and has been widely planted on this part of the island. The cone is used to throw on a fire as it is said that the smoke will keep away mosquitoes.
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n. tree to 20 m, dbh 75 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4976). Loanword for introduced species.

Example: This tree was introduced as a source of timber and has been widely planted on this part of the island. The cone is used to throw on a fire as it is said that the smoke will keep away mosquitoes.

suko

adv. downwards or westwards

tatau

Sphyraena qenie http://fishbase.org/summary/Sphyraena-qenie.html
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n. Blackfin barracuda

Example: Photo by Jan Messersmith, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

vaiñ

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wai meteuc

Photo by K. David Harrison, Dec. 2018, Aneityum island.
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n. sweet potatoes

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

yetse

v.n. to go down