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as vakuei
ecetaig jai
v. to come out, as banana fruit
bookmarkehgin
adj. afar
bookmarkincai er hegaig
n. a tree for food; a fruit tree
bookmarkincei u nasuantan
n. herb to 1 m, flowers blue. In transitional zone from pine forest to ’primary’ forest. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4982)
Example: This is used to treat Ciguatera disease when a person eats fish that is contaminated. Squeeze juice from a handful of leaves of this herb into a cup, add a small amount of water, and drink 1 cup once a day for 3 days, or continue until the person feels better. This illness is a problem on Aneityum with the reef fish. It is better to eat fish that are farther out to sea. This treatment is also used for dogs who eat contaminated fish. Make the same preparation and forcibly pour this in their mouth as they will not drink it willingly. Do this treatment once daily until the dog feels better. The dogs get this illness because they are fed the scraps, especially the bones of the fish, and this is thought to be where the disease is found. This is considered to be a dangerous illness and dogs who get it frequently die.
bookmarkinceihuri
incetcanalaeñ
inlepei owonp̃oded
inlepei u inpoded atam̃wain
inma
n. a breadfruit tree
bookmarkinmeranauunse
n. kind of breadfruit
bookmarkinmesese
n. the cold season; winter
bookmarkinmoso
n. fog or mist
bookmarkinmowad u pikad
n. vine to 5 m tall in trees, fruits maturing yellow-brown. Growing in agroforest/secondary forest. (collection: Michael J. Balick #5009)
Example: People collect this vine and feed it to pigs. It also has an unspecified medicinal use. The vine of this plant forms a thick canopy so some people plant it around the house near trees that do not give much shade in order to reduce the intensity of the sun on the house and thus keep the temperature lower. The vine grows quickly into the trees.
bookmarkinrowodamya
n. shrub to 1. 5 m tall, leaves green with red stripes (collection: Michael J. Balick #4978)
Example: The leaves are used to wrap fish, lap-lap for cooking in the earth oven. Boil the leaves as a medicine for women with excessive menstrual bleeding. Cut 2 leaves and boil in 2 liters of water, cool and drink 1 cup daily for 3 days. This is said to slow the menstrual bleeding. Local name "Amya" means menstruation.
bookmarkintal a Samoa
n. kind of taro
bookmarkinteri amu
n. kind of taro
bookmarkinteucjip
n. bush land where forest trees grow; also "intucjip"
bookmarkintopasyejitohou
n. herb to 50 cm tall, flowers yellow. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4947)
Example: To treat toothache, collect the uppermost young leaves, rub them in your hand, put mass of crushed leaves into the area of toothache to lessen the pain. Do this as needed until the pain goes away. Keep it in your mouth for 10 minutes then spit out, then add a new one, keep going as needed.
bookmarkinvid
n. two days ago or two days hence
bookmarkjumasjuma
kopilkopil
n. kind of taro
bookmarkleyei
n. kind of taro
bookmarkmure
adj. ripe, as arrowroot; also "murre"
bookmarknagai
n. the name of a tree with fruit like almonds
bookmarknahaijcai
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknahoj
n. tree, 7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3646)
Example: The ripe fruits of this species smell very nice and people eat the inside part, which tastes similar to a banana. When fruit is ripe the outside is yellow and the inside is purple. The wood can be used for poles to make house rafters. When kids go fishing for shrimps they use the fruit to catch the shrimp by throwing the shrimp into the water which attracts the shrimp.
bookmarknahraren nepig
n. dawn of day
bookmarknaipumnyu
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknalgaij
n. kind of sugarcane; also "inhelegaij"
bookmarknama u niprij
n. herb, growing along garden area. Flowers yellow. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3595)
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.
bookmarknanad
naop yi atmas
n. a small whirlwind
bookmarknapuleman
n. kind of banana
bookmarknatoga u inmeijcop
n. wind-related term; no definition provided
bookmarknauwatamu
n. kind of sugarcane
bookmarknauyerop
n. species of sycamore (117); a sycamore fig (97)
bookmarknecjop̃dak
n. low-growing, creeping vine growing in grassy area just inland from coastal strand. Flowers yellow. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3223)
Example: The leaves of this plant are used to treat stomach ache. Take a handful of leaves and mix with 1/2 liter of water, crush the leaves in the water and drink the entire amount when your stomach hurts. Alternatively, this can also be consumed 1x a week as a tonic drink for the stomach and system.
bookmarknecñopod
n. shrub, 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3512)
Example: This plant is used as fertilzer to place on bottom of the taro patch in the same way as GMP #3456 to help "feed the ground" for next year. The leaves are used to wrap food. When a person is chewing kava, pile the chewed kava roots on the young leaves of this species. Also, an unspecified medicinal use.
bookmarknednañlelcei
neduon
n. a bone, a foot
bookmarknekro
nelka
nepat
n. kind of banana
bookmarknepek cat
neudan tauoc neaig
n. the center sprout of a coconut tree
bookmarknidupau
n. kind of tree
bookmarkniegred
nigehagid
n. kind of banana
bookmarknighincai
n. the stump of a tree
bookmarknilbudou
nipjid acen
n. citron; lemon; lime tree
bookmarkniri atga
niskes
n. Harry hotlips, blubberlip
Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknohos anhas
n. the Futuna banana
bookmarknohud ucnas
n. a bunch of taro; also "nuhud ucnas"
bookmarknomotmot
n. grass
bookmarknopan
n. a season
bookmarknowat apen
n. Striated surgeonfish
Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknoweitopgat
nucye
n. the red star, the "hand" in the constellation Orion; also "necye"
bookmarknumalpau
n. wind-related term; no definition provided
bookmarknumurumu
n. epiphyte on Syzygium tree, growing in secondary forest along trail above river. old fruits. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3660)
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. Used as a baby’s remedy for when the baby is crying too much because the parents are having to much sex. The baby will also be slow to grow and be thin. To remedy this, must wash the baby with the following mixture: nekei atimi (bark), nohos atimi (green skin of the stem), nepnatimi ataman (part not specified). Scrap about 1 inch cubed of the nekei atimi into your hand along with 1in x 4in of the first layer of the green skin of the banana stem (nohos atimi), and the top 8 leaves from about two separate branches of the nepnatimi ataman. Bind all ingredients together and pound them and put everything in the baby’s water for bathing. Wash the baby in water made with this mixture. Do not wipe the baby dry but let it air dry. The next day when you wash the baby with soap, you must re-wash them with the mixture again. Do this for 5 days with the same water mixture. It may small bad but that is okay. Finally on day 5, take the juice from the outter layer of skin on the stem of the banana, nohos atimi, and give a full spoonful of the juice to the baby to drink. Other plants can be added to the bathing water but these are the three primary ingredients.
bookmarknupnyineuc
n. another name for masoa; arrowroot
bookmarknuueced
n. a brook that is dry in dry weather
bookmarkpehpahai
v.n. sail inside of reef
bookmarkridiau mayi
n. kind of taro
bookmarktilcenayi
n. full moon
bookmarkucsalad tiklai cai
v.a. to lop off small branches
bookmarkuleme
adj. sour, applied to the water in coconuts
bookmarkupasin
n. first shoots of old roots
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