abäng
n.
Ficus aspera
Example: Juice squeeved from leaves: conjunctivitis
Speaker: Bradacs 2011, p. 443
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ahlau se
v.n.
go down
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 154
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apitak
v.n.
go after
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 154
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araho
n.
made of branches
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 130
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daute
n.
kind of banana
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118
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ecetaig jai
v.
to come out, as banana fruit
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 72
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ehlili
v.
to burn ground for planting
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 74
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Et elwa nieg
phr.
the reeds blossom.
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 77
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eti laulau
adv.
soon
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 92
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igcahi
n.
landward
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 82
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incauwunja
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n.
kind of flowering plant (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4794)
Scientific name: Rivina humilis, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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inceipou
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n.
tree, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3612)
Example: 1. Edible fruits when ripe and turn black – some sweet and some not – eat sweet ones. 2. Timber, firewood.
Scientific name: Syzygium clusiifolium, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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inmauwad imrig
n.
a convolvulus with blue or reddish flowers
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120
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inmehtit
n.
breadfruit crop in October
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 87
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inmetla
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n.
tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3579)
Example: The fruits of this plant is edible and tastes like a guava. The wood is used for house posts, and the smaller stems used to make rafters to hold thatch. Firewood.
Scientific name: Eugenia rariflora, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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inmopoñ
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tree, 10 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3516)
Example: The young stems are used to make fishing spears. These stems are also used to make the poles that connect an outrigger to a traditional canoe, as they are light and strong. The large trees have extensive roots and stumps and are used as a pen for pigs by making a fence from these.
Scientific name: Heritiera littoralis, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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inp̃al
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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.
Scientific name: Malvaviscus arboreus, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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intal milmat
n.
kind of taro
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119
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intareihok
intejed gal
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n.
tree, 12-14 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3640)
Example: The seeds of this species are eaten, the fruits are cracked open and the seeds removed. However, perhaps of 10 fruits, maybe only 3 have seeds for eating. The flowers are known to have a very pleasant fragrance.
Scientific name: Terminalia sepicana, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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intelopse
n.
kind of plant, grass, or fern
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120
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intisian
n.
a flower
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 89
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inwou apeñ
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n.
well branched tree, 10 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4025)
Example: 1. Hardwood is used to make a fishing spear. Wire is fashioned at the point to make a spear head. 2. Young plants are used to fasten coconut leaves to the rafters, in the thatching process.
Scientific name: Arytera brackenridgei, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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inyecelcoli
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vine to 1 m, flowers purple. (kudzu plant). (collection: Michael J. Balick #4920)
Example: Roast the tuber of this vine on an open fire for 20-40 minutes, peel off the skin and eat like cassava or taro. Chew it and drink the "juice" while spitting out the fiber. It grows wild, season of harvesting is in May. Very tasty food for people, considered "numba wan" food for this island.
Scientific name: Pueraria lobata, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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inyiciñpa
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n.
tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4143)
Scientific name: Syzygium richii, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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kaliteg
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n.
kind of flowering plant (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4772)
Scientific name: Cerbera manghas, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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lelahapol
n.
a cultivated field
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 92
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nadiat
n.
day
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 114
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nadouyatmas
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n.
tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4069)
Scientific name: Delarbrea paradoxa, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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nagai
n.
the name of a tree with fruit like almonds
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 94
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nahrin hat
n.
kind of taro
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119
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nakwai
n.
kind of plant, grass, or fern
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120
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namlau
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well branched tree, 12 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4081)
Example: 1. The wood is used to carve a bi-handle bowl from which chiefs would drink kava.
Scientific name: Glochidion ramiflorum, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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napannopotan
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n.
epiphytic fern, growing in dense rainforest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4098)
Example: 1. The name means "ground cover". It usually grow on the forest floor.
Scientific name: Crepidomanes, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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napuig
n.
a reed frame for supporting the tendrils of yams
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 96
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nasancai
n.
a tree full of sap
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 96
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natapin
n.
hedge
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 156
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natiñpece
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n.
herb, growing on roadside in open disturbed area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3607)
Scientific name: Ischaemum muticum, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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natu
n.
grass; little bushes
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 97
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nauyerop
n.
species of sycamore (117); a sycamore fig (97)
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 97, 117
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necemas
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terrestrial plant, growing in dry forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3509)
Example: This is a "message plant" that signifies that there has been a death. The person holds it or puts it on their head, goes to another person’s house and hands it to the person they wish to convey the message to, without saying anything and that person knows that someone has died. It can also be handed to that person. The person receiving the message then asks "who" and is told the deceased person’s name.
Scientific name: Selaginella durvillei, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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neclad
necñanjaa
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n.
shrub to 2 m, dbh 3 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4862)
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
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necñanman
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n.
understory tree, 2-3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4050)
Scientific name: Schefflera neoebudica, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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nednaeñ
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tree, 3. 5-4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3472)
Example: 1. This species is good for firewood when dried. 2. The wood is used as well for making house posts. 3. Use this w/ INCIPINTI (GMP 3471) for compost in the water taro field.
Scientific name: Melicope latifolia, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nednaiñ lelcei
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partly fallen tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4055)
Example: 1. The wood of this tree is used to make rafters of traditional homes.
Scientific name: Melicope bonwickii, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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neduon
n.
low mountain
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 166
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neduwudu
adj.
full of seeds, as the pawpaw apple
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 98
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nedwonomo
negna
neijis ieg
n.
a bundle of reeds for a torch; a torch
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 99
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nejecjeñ
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small tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4059)
Scientific name: Leukosyke australis, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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nelkap̃aeñ
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n.
tree, 10 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3466)
Example: The wood of this species is very hard and therefore useful for making houses. In fact it is so hard that a person cannot drive a nail through it. This wood is used to make spears for fishing.
Scientific name: Sarcomelicope simplicifolia, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nepig
n.
night
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 114
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nepya
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tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3541)
Example: 1. The young leaves are placed under a pig being cooked in the earth oven, on top of stones, the fat drips on the leaves and then people eat the leaves with pig fat on it--said to be delicious. The branches are used to make pig pen fences. 2. Collect top branches, chop leaves boil and eat like island cabbage – or cook on charcoal and wrap fish w/ this leaf.
Scientific name: Pisonia grandis, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nerop
netet
n.
the name of a tree
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 100
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nevak
n.
prepared pandanus leaf
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 170
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nigirid
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tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3503)
Example: The leaves of this plant are used in cooking, particuarly with the earth oven. Use a fire to heat stones, then when the fire burns down and the stones are hot, pile these leaves on top of the hot stones and then place the food being cooked--taro, fish, pig, cassava, banana or other foods--on top of the leaves. Then pile more of these leaves on top of the food and then place additional hot stones on top of that pile of leaves. While the food is cooking--each type of food takes a different amount of time--the leaves give off a very nice smell and help flavor the food.
Scientific name: Cleidion javanicum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nigyi neto
n.
the chewed fiber of sugarcane
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 101
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nihpad
n.
kind of tree
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117
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nijcel
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tree, 8-9 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3655)
Example: If the preferred banana leaves are not available to wrap food for cooking, then use young leaves of this species and tie taro and fish for cooking. Take 4-5 leaves and wrap the food with the leaves. Tie a rope around the food and tie them all together using any strong vine. They can then be cooked over an open fire.
Scientific name: Dillenia neoebudica, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nijiga
n.
a branch of red coral
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 101
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ninja
niridunumu
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terrestrial fern growing in rain forest on the mountain slope. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3284)
Scientific name: Schizaea dichotoma, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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nohopcop
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n.
Glossy swiftlet
Example: Photo by Lip Kee, License: CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr
Scientific name: Collocalia esculenta, Speaker: Jack Keitadi
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nohor
n.
kind of taro
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119
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nomotmot ijis
n.
kind of plant, grass, or fern
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120
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numta
n.
shoots of taro for planting
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 105
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nupsinhodaeñ
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tree, 3-4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3532)
Example: This is a foreign tree, rare on Aneityum
Scientific name: Chrysobalanus icaco, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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semi
adv.
down hither
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 108
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tar ~ [introduced tamprem]
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tree to 8 m, dbh 60 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4984)
Example: Peel the shell of the fruit and eat the inner part, or make jam from this part. Spit out the seeds. The branches of this tree are used for firewood.
Scientific name: Ceratonia siliqua, Speaker: Tony Keith
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umnad
adj.
rotten, applied to fruit
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 111
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upuhasin
n.
sprouts
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 188
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