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-ko
affix yonder; away from
bookmarkapnyin
n. time; weather; day; morning
bookmarkeblaamnem
adj. adjacent
bookmarkehlek
v. to seek food, as taro; to gather, to reap
bookmarkehlili
v. to burn ground for planting
bookmarkehtele cei nai
n. full moon
bookmarkehteleceinayi
n. full moon
bookmarkhan
v.n. to go
bookmarkhui heldei
v.n. to sail
bookmarkincat
n. flax
bookmarkinceslum
n. vegetables; herbs, as taro, bananas; every vegetable planted for food
bookmarkincipñekrei
inhujac
injedete anawanarin
inmohtan nohos
n. kind of taro
bookmarkinm̃aka
n. well branched tree, 12 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4022)
Example: 1. A durable hardwood that is used for house posts. 2. The wood is used to fashion cross members that affix outriggers to the body of the canoe. 3. 4-5 inch diameter saplings are used to create a track in the forest that larger logs can roll down.
bookmarkinpan
n. kind of banana
bookmarkinrigen natmas
n. kind of banana
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.
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.
bookmarkintowosjei
inweriwei
inyehec
n. mandrake
bookmarkinyirigwai
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarklakasia
lelen
adj. unripe
bookmarknabudwä
nacñanp̃aiñ
nagagnit
n. Harlequin sweetlips, many-spotted sweetlips
Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknahar
n. species of pine
bookmarknahrarin nepig
n. early morning; around 3 o’clock
bookmarknaijema
n. cotton
bookmarknamesei
nametreyeñ
namrad
namumuatamag
n. epiphyte on fallen tree, growing in disturbed forest. Fruit. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3474)
Example: When children feel weak, this is a good medicine for them. Squeeze the leaves and give the child (3-5 years of age) one tea spoon of the juice and it is said to make them strong again.
bookmarknapaecei
napau emilmat
n. kind of taro
bookmarknap̃at
n. terrestrial fern, growing in dwarf cloud-forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3268)
Example: For performing a weather magic ritual to produce fog, this plant is fermented along with another plant (nirid u numu) in a hole in a sacred stone (called "Naemoso") at a secret location on Aneityum.
bookmarknatarau
n. a bamboo flute
bookmarknatoga ahrei
n. wind-related term; no definition provided
bookmarknauyerop̃ u inman
nawou
necemas
n. 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.
bookmarknecyak
n. herb to 20 cm, flowers blue. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4922)
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.
bookmarknefelelicai acen
n. hemlock
bookmarknegainohos
n. bunch of bananas; also "nigainohos"
bookmarknehpan
n. a wing, a sheath, a covering of bananas
bookmarknejecjec
nijma
n. fallen tree, growing in canopy gap in primary forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3465)
Example: When the flowers of this plant are green, it is an indication that the cool season is approaching; when the flowers are brown, the dry season is coming. The wood is used to make rafters for the roof of houses, on which to tie thatch.
bookmarkniri
niri nara
n. Blue-spotted stingray
Example: Photo by Richard Ling / Flickr.com, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarkniridunumu
n. terrestrial fern, growing along ridge in dense rainforest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4121)
Example: 1. The name means "fish gill". When one acquires a culture-bound illness, caused by possesion of the sea devil, this plant is used to prepare a remedy. Further information about the illness and remedy withheld.
bookmarknispev
n sea snake
bookmarknitai auanipin upene
n. frankincense
bookmarknohwai itai
n. corn
bookmarknohwan yag
n. kind of taro
bookmarknomotmot tucjup
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknup̃ut
pehpahai
v.n. sail inside of reef
bookmarkpok
adv. seaward
bookmarkse
adv. downward
bookmarksemi
adv. down hither
bookmarkugnis
v.a. to take off sprouts of taro
bookmarkuvid
n. three days ago; three days hence
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