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acesare
adj. sun just down
bookmarkapnyin
n. time; weather; day; morning
bookmarkehmehma
adj. healed, applied to wounds; ripe; yellow
bookmarketjo itac
v.n. to fall behind; to come late
bookmarkigca pam
phr. on this side
bookmarkigca pau
phr. on that side
bookmarkigcaijai
n. a place up or eastward
bookmarkinbul
n. native rose; rosa chinensis; the hibiscus; also "inpul"
bookmarkincauaij aho
n. kind of tree
bookmarkincoujahao
n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3548)
Example: The forked stick of this plant is used as a pole to hold the outrigger on a canoe. Children blow the small fruits of this plant through the hollow petioles of the papaya leaf or a hollowed bamboo stem as a game. As an aphrodisiac, two handfuls of the leaves of this species are boiled in fresh water and men drink these for 7 days. The next week they will be "strong." People cannot have sex while they are drinking this remedy, but then the next week when they have finished the treatment, they will be "very strong."
bookmarkinlepei u inpoded atam̃wain
inlop̃ot
inmal acujitai
n. a collection of plantations
bookmarkinmereijcil
n. kind of breadfruit
bookmarkinmoijeuv adpoig
inp̃al apogen
intaeñtaeñ atamaeñ
intaig apig
n. kind of taro
bookmarkintijgarae
n. tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3519)
Example: The stem of this plant is used for fence posts that lead to the sea, and it is resistant to salt water and lasts a long time. The wood is strong and good to make house posts. People use this wood on the coast as salt water does not bother this wood.
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.
bookmarkinwouasan
n. liana climbing on Syzygium, growing along ridge in dense rainforest. Latex white (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4079)
bookmarkinwow ityuwun
iñec
[iŋec] n. Mystery Island
bookmarkkoliavan
n. kind of taro
bookmarkma
adj. ripe, as fruit; healed, as a wound; also "mah"
bookmarknadi adiat upni
nadine
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknafanu
n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3530)
Example: This plant grows in coastal areas, and is a good source of firewood. It can be used for house posts. The leaves are used as an unspecified medicine. There is a belief regarding the black and white sea snake, that represents a seawater spirit. Mix this with other unspecified leaves, mash together, squeeze into a bamboo tube and fill it. Give it to a woman to drink to keep the evil snake spirit away. The same preparation can be used to treat toothache, caused by the seawater spirit. "The spirit can trick you into going to fish every day."
bookmarknahcaijap
n. kind of tree
bookmarknajgou
n. Orange-spotted emperor, yellowtail emperor
Example: Photo by FAO / Fishbase, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknalmupeñ
napaeicei
napat
n. a cloud, blackness, darkness
bookmarknapujatha
nathat uwun jap
nauun
n. a stem
bookmarknawod
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.
bookmarkneaig auyag
n. kind of palm
bookmarkneaig cap
n. a red coconut
bookmarkneiang
neipyepei
n. kind of tree
bookmarknejev
n. tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3214)
Example: This tree makes good wood for canoes as well as timbers that are cut for building houses. A decoration that is placed around the head, known as salu-salu is made from these leaves. If you wear it, people know you are from Aneityum. In the early 1950’s-1960’s, Aneityum was the main place for logging this species. Now it is rare and in need of replanting. A project from New Zealand planted pine trees in its place and they have thrived here. In the same way, the sandalwood tree was overharvested and is rare now. Timber, very resinous so good to start fire – branches good for fire. They are the ones that have the sap, if a person in in the bush and finds young tree – sapling – they will make headdress from the leaves to show they came from the bush. Also, this is a Kastom name.
bookmarknekinkin
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknelcau udeuc
n. kind of taro
bookmarknihivaeñ aeyhec
nikam
n. large tree, 18 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4076)
Example: 1. The name means "I come". This plant is used to convey messages. When a branch of this plant is left at the house of a person it indicates someone had visited them and they were not there. 2. Children eat the nut of the ripe (yellow) fruits.
bookmarkninja
nipyipei
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknirom̃gei
nitai auanipin upene
n. frankincense
bookmarknitato naretou
nobohtan aiyu
n. meadow
bookmarknohos esjig inwai
n. a banana
bookmarknohwai vaine mese
n. raisin
bookmarknopou
n. tree to 5 m, dbh 10 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4881)
Example: The wood of this tree is used to make house-posts, it is strong. The leaves are used as a compost for the taro patch; line the hole with the leaves of this tree, then place soil over that and plant the taro. When the fruits are ripe, local people say that the hermit crabs are "fat" and ready to collect and eat. When a person is in the forest and there is no coconut fruit fiber to start a fire with, use a dry stick, shave it and use a match to start a pile of this tinder to make a good fire. The wood is said to be "oily." This gives it a nice aroma. To perfume coconut oil, drop the dry flowers in it--use 1 handful of dried flowers added to a pot of oil boiling on the fire while making it. Strain out flowers and the oil smells good. Flowers can also be added to the oil once it is bottled to perfume it.
bookmarknosocrei
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknuhujcei
n. liana, climbing on fallen tree (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3500)
Example: 1. When the stems of this plant are older, and it is a vine, is used to tie thatch on roof rafters as it bends well. 2. Burned leaves and rubbed on fishing line and spear to increase catch – used with other unspecified leaves, that are forageable. When you are fishing and if you set a basket or mat it means danger and you have to return to shore – the spirit is telling you that it is enough fishing.
bookmarknumuyehec
nunyepec
n. understory tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4049)
Example: 1. The name means "knife of sandpaper", a type of fish. The leaf base resembles the fin of the fish. 2. In the past, a spear was made from the sapling wood of this plant for tribal warfare. Today, spears are made from this plant for fishing. First, a relatively straight spaling is chosen and then heated over a fire. The pliable portion of wood is straightened and then decorticated. When cool, a portion of wire can be affixed on one end to aid in the spearing of fish.
bookmarknuputuligighap
n. stem of coconut leaf
bookmarknässa
pospos
n. a small red berry used as beads
bookmarktar ~ [introduced tamprem]
yecreig
adj. beginning to be ripe, as fruit
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