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ae

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[ahe] v. prepare soil for taro planting, by removing the topsoil, putting down special leaves, and replacing topsoil

aihon

v. to spit on leaves; to chew leaves for sickness

alm̃ui

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v. see

apos yi aktit

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v.n. to steer straight

ecen

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v. respect

ehnat aiek

v.n. go before

ehpai

v. to peel off bark

eloah

v. to blossom, as reeds; also "elwa"

emtac

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adj. afraid; fright

erop̃rop̃

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v. to fish

et hal timi

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[et hal t̚imi ] phr. some people

ethi

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[itij] num. one

eucte

v. to begin to blossom

igca pau

phr. on that side

incai

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[inɣej] n. tree

incanaij yohon

n. kind of plant, grass, or fern

inhelja

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[inhɛlʤa] n. our penis’

inhelog

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[inhɛloŋ] n. your penis

inja

Photo by K. David Harrison, Aneityum island, Vanuatu, Dec. 2018.
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[inja] n. Red Jungle Fowl, all chickens

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

inmorantejed

Cephalopholis miniata http://fishbase.org/summary/Cephalopholis-miniata.html
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n. Coral hind, coral grouper (deep sea)

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

inm̃okom

Chlorurus microrhinos
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n. Steephead parrotfish

Example: Photo by charlie20 / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

inrejei

Caryota ophiopellis
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n. trees, 3-4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4133)

intas

[intas] language

intijganeno

name = "stonefish ears" 1. To treat rashes - boil 4 leaves in water ad wait until it cools. Wash in this once a day until rash goes away. 2. Stonefish sting – very painful: 1 handful of leaves with squeezed coconut juice – coconut water – from green coconut. Mix the leaves and water and then make a cut in the wound to enlarge it and pour this juice into the wound. In 5-10 minutes the pain will stop, use 1x, very powerful. 3.If a person such as a mother touches the stonefish while preparing it for food, then does not wash hands, can infect a child – and the child will get sores. Take a small branch and boil it in the water and wash the baby with it to make pain go away. 4. Stonefish is a greatly appreciated food that must be prepared carefully by holding the fish by the mouth and not touching the body. Boil the fish to inactivate the poison and then prepare it as a normal fish for cooking. Poison is found in top spine of fish.
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n. shrub. Found in the village Unames. (collection: Ashley A McGuigan #33)

Example: name = "stonefish ears" 1. To treat rashes - boil 4 leaves in water ad wait until it cools. Wash in this once a day until rash goes away. 2. Stonefish sting – very painful: 1 handful of leaves with squeezed coconut juice – coconut water – from green coconut. Mix the leaves and water and then make a cut in the wound to enlarge it and pour this juice into the wound. In 5-10 minutes the pain will stop, use 1x, very powerful. 3.If a person such as a mother touches the stonefish while preparing it for food, then does not wash hands, can infect a child – and the child will get sores. Take a small branch and boil it in the water and wash the baby with it to make pain go away. 4. Stonefish is a greatly appreciated food that must be prepared carefully by holding the fish by the mouth and not touching the body. Boil the fish to inactivate the poison and then prepare it as a normal fish for cooking. Poison is found in top spine of fish.

intisian

n. a flower

intisiance

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[intisjaŋɣe] n. flower

intoutau

Psychotria

n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3486)

inwaj

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n. kind of fish

inwou itoga

Pyrostegia venusta
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n. kind of flowering plant (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4758)

inwouse

Stictocardia campanulata
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n. creeping and decumbent vine, growing at edge of strand (near airstrip terminal). (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3575)

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)

kalep

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n. kind of shellfish

keamu

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n. Aneityum

kuratemain

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[kuretemain] n. dog (male)

leucen

adj. ripe, as taro

mau ipig

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[maʊ ipiŋ] n. night of spirits; "left night"

maya ga o’oh

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[maja ga oʔo] phr. yes or no (traditional)

metagi asori

n. kind of taro

nacal

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n. kind of bird

nacaunyit

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[naɣawʊnjit] n. fish (sp. with thick lips)

nadoni

n. prickly shrub

nafirama

Photo by K. David Harrison, April 2016.
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[nafirama] n. a kind of basket

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

naha

Crinum asiaticum
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n. large terrestrial herb, 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4142)

naijema

n. flax

nalak

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n. plantain

nalauba

Chalcophaps indica
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[nalauba] n. Emerald Dove

Example: Photo by Dr. Raju Kasambe/Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

namlau

1. The larger stems of this plant can be used to build houses, for rafters. 2. It is also a good source of firewood. 3. Ancestors, before go to chief’s canal and want to talk about a complicated issue – a person would cut a branch and bring it to the sea and tap the water surface and would say what he wants, ask that he would want that issue to be solved and that others would follow his ideas and then go back to the meeting place and take stick, keep wind at his back, moving stick in all directions and then he will convince the people of his ideas. This is done by the chief’s spokesman. Helps convince the opposition. Helps keep power in hands of parent(??) chief rather than subchiefs who might have other ideas.
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n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3490)

Example: 1. The larger stems of this plant can be used to build houses, for rafters. 2. It is also a good source of firewood. 3. Ancestors, before go to chief’s canal and want to talk about a complicated issue – a person would cut a branch and bring it to the sea and tap the water surface and would say what he wants, ask that he would want that issue to be solved and that others would follow his ideas and then go back to the meeting place and take stick, keep wind at his back, moving stick in all directions and then he will convince the people of his ideas. This is done by the chief’s spokesman. Helps convince the opposition. Helps keep power in hands of parent(??) chief rather than subchiefs who might have other ideas.

namohos

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n. kind of fish

nam̃ete ahi

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n. kind of bush

napapotan

Asplenium bipinnatifidum
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n. epiphytic fern on tree, growing in dense rainforest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4089)

napat apeig

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[napat apeiŋ] n. black cloud

napile

n. kind of taro

napjau

1. Bath for babies to make them healthy and walk faster, mix with plants WAKAS (AAB 34), NITIDEI (GMP 3658 or 4043), and a grass NATUTAHUT (MJB 4945). Put all in a kettle filled of water and wash them with it – use 1 handful of each leaf.
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n. grass. Found along intra village path. (collection: Ashley A McGuigan #35)

Example: 1. Bath for babies to make them healthy and walk faster, mix with plants WAKAS (AAB 34), NITIDEI (GMP 3658 or 4043), and a grass NATUTAHUT (MJB 4945). Put all in a kettle filled of water and wash them with it – use 1 handful of each leaf.

napleaig

n. kind of tree

napun nitai caig

n. the skin or rind of food

naridjai o un

n. east

nariko cei

1a. Cultivated in gardens. Cook seeds of this species or eat them raw before they are fully ripened. The green pods can also be cooked in a fire and eaten. 1b. Cultivated plant for its edible seeds, can be prepared in a pot of bamboo. OR could take branches w/ seeds and put directly on the earth oven for cooking. 2. Planting this species adds nitrogen to the soil--grow it on soil that is said to be "tired."
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n. fence-forming shrub, 1. 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3206)

Example: 1a. Cultivated in gardens. Cook seeds of this species or eat them raw before they are fully ripened. The green pods can also be cooked in a fire and eaten. 1b. Cultivated plant for its edible seeds, can be prepared in a pot of bamboo. OR could take branches w/ seeds and put directly on the earth oven for cooking. 2. Planting this species adds nitrogen to the soil--grow it on soil that is said to be "tired."

natau atam̃eñ

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n. kind of shellfish

natu

n. grass; little bushes

nauanavig

n. quicksands

naupiñiña

Put several leaves of this species together to wrap food, especially the fresh water eel, and to carry plants of taro, kava, holding the leaves over one’s shoulder to carry these crops.
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n. terrestrial fern, growing in secondary forest along the river. Leaves c. 2. 25 m long. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3656)

Example: Put several leaves of this species together to wrap food, especially the fresh water eel, and to carry plants of taro, kava, holding the leaves over one’s shoulder to carry these crops.

necditahou

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n. kind of crab

nedoun

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[nɛθoʊn] n. mountain

nefitan mokom

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[nefitan mokom] n. kind of breadfruit

nefitan nedoon nedoon

n. kind of breadfruit

nehpan neaig

n. kind of plant, grass, or fern

neiang

Photo by K. David Harrison, Dec. 2018, Aneityum island.
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n. stage of coconut

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

neijiv

n. species of pine

nekrou

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n. Metrosideros collina (RPV #81)

nelco

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[nɛlʝo] n. canoe

nelco

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[nelɣo] n. canoe

nepig sepahai

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[nepiŋ sepahaj] n. night, the moon has not come up yet, "the moon is down"

nerere

Ficus obliqua
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n. strangler tree, 12 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3694)

nerophat

Carangoides fulvoguttatus http://fishbase.org/summary/Carangoides-fulvoguttatus.html
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n. Yellowspotted trevally, Turrum

Example: Photo by Rick Stuart-Smith / Fishes of Australia, License: CC BY-A 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

neteukin

n. the name of a poisonous plant

neudan tauoc neaig

n. the center sprout of a coconut tree

niau

n. kind of plant, grass, or fern

nidin neaig

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[niθin neaiɣ] n. coconut milk

nihivai

n. Macaranga dioca

Example: Inner bark: bathe in cold infusion, wounds. Mix heated over fire and taken out during sunset. Healer clenches the package in his fist, then gently punches the patients left, then right knee, then his forehead and finally squeezes over his head, migraine a

nipciv

n. the shark (constellation?)

niriyau

Siganus punctatus
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n. Goldspotted spinefoot

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

nisalau

n. blossoms on breadfruit

nitai auanipin upene

n. frankincense

nititan cei

Use it to cover fruit of inm̃ap (Inocarpus fagifer) in earth oven.
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n. terrestrial fern, growing in primary rainforest. [in transect t9-3] (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3631)

Example: Use it to cover fruit of inm̃ap (Inocarpus fagifer) in earth oven.

nohlaig

n. a species of seaweed

nohoijam

Photo by K. David Harrison, April 2016.
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[nohoɪjam] n. fan of woven pandanus leaf

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

nohos yau

Photo by K. David Harrison, April 2016.
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n. a large type of banana, lit. "whale banana" (see inyau)

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

nopsijman

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[nopsiʧman] n. hand

nowyeyang

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n. shrub to 2 m tall, flowers pink (collection: Michael J. Balick #4955)

Example: The tubers of this variety are sweet, not bitter and are eaten after cooking. The young leaves are eaten after boiling in water until they are soft, either plain or cooked in soup. It is important to only harvest and prepare the young leaves in this way, as the older leaves will not get soft even after cooking. The young leaves are used to cover the top layer of the earth oven, on top of the stones that comprise the upper layer of the earth oven.

nuhialeg

n. the morning

nwujvaeñ

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.
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n. vine climbing on Myristica fatua, growing in primary rainforest. Fruits green. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3615)

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.

nädoiatmas

n. Polyscias samoensis

Example: leaf -- cold maceration taken internally against ciguatera

nähiväing

n. Macaranga dioca

Example: Inner bark: bathe in cold infusion, wounds. Mix heated over fire and taken out during sunset. Healer clenches the package in his fist, then gently punches the patients left, then right knee, then his forehead and finally squeezes over his head, migraine a

se

adv. downward

talpas

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[talpos] adj. very big

upreupre

n. tough; a kind of coral

vaiñ

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warogo

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n. kind of fish (folk name)

wiwi

n. kind of breadfruit