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acrac
baby crawling
bookmarkahtaredei
v.n. go though, as the land
bookmarkategnaijaig pok nelcau
v.n. sail from shore
bookmarkedaledal
v.a. to spread abroad; to go everywhere
bookmarkEt elwa intisiaicai
phr. the flowers are come out.
bookmarkevehel
n. light winds
bookmarkimtiat
incanaij yohon
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarkinciñyiñpa
inlopot jap
n. shrub to 1 m, flower white (collection: Michael J. Balick #4866)
Example: When making a taro patch, and removing soil, add the leaves of this plant to the soil to fertilize the taro, and prevent the bottom part of the taro from rotting. Put a layer of leaves on the bottom of the patch before planting taro and covering with soil.
bookmarkinmadedi
n. Tabernaemontana padacaqui
Example: leaf used for for wounds; cold maceration taken internally against "skin cancer" (severe wounds?). Stalk, chewed, influences sex of an embryo in favor of a girl.
bookmarkinmusji nupul
n. kind of tree
bookmarkintapin
n. a hedge; a shelter
bookmarkintareihok
intinan nopoi
n. the wicker-work bed (constellation?)
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inyecelcoli
n. 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.
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kateupen
n. kind of taro
bookmarkkorari
n. herb growing to 2 m tall, flower white (collection: Michael J. Balick #4974)
Example: Put the leaf in seawater for two months, this will rett t he fibers. Then collect the fibrous strings and dry them in the sun, and use them for weaving. In the past this plant fiber was used to make rope but not at present.
bookmarklelohos
n. a garden of bananas
bookmarkmasoa
n. sterile herb, juvenile form (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3438)
Example: This plant is used as a starchy food. To prepare it, grarte it into a dish, wash with water, the starch settles to the bottom, pour off the water, dry the starch in the sun and make it into a powder. The starch can be cooked with coconut milk and eaten.
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namlau
nam̃am̃a
nanad itohou
n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3456)
Example: 1. The leaves of this plant are used as a fertilizer when a person plants taro "to help to feed the ground for next year." 2. Sapwood of this tree, and one more [GMP 3591], in old days take from west side and cross mountain to the east, and on red clay mountain, burn it to make spirits to give more sun instead of rain so that gardens will grow well.
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napat
n. a cloud, blackness, darkness
bookmarknapjau
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.
bookmarknapjis
n. a species of grass
bookmarknapoijec
n. kind of tree
bookmarknatau anyiyi
n. kind of banana
bookmarknatec
n. trees; palms; figs
bookmarknauhoig yi amud
n. break of day
bookmarknauram milmat
n. kind of banana
bookmarkneau
n. a small water-plant
bookmarknednaiñ lelcei
neduwudu
adj. full of seeds, as the pawpaw apple
bookmarknegejwaj
neipyepei
n. kind of tree
bookmarknejecjec
nejev
nemdaj
n. Little spinefoot, scribbled rabbitfish
Example: Photo by Kathleen Kresner-Reyes / Fishbase, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknepig upni
nerumut
n. a hollow place in taro
bookmarknidincai
n. balsam; resin
bookmarkniditau
n. tree to 8 m, dbh 20 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4867)
Example: Fruits are sweet and edible when ripe. This plant is an indicator of rich soil, a good place to plant one’s garden. The leaves of this species are mixed in with other leaves for an unspecified local medicine that helps to remove spiritual sickness
bookmarknilidie
n. leaves to put food on
bookmarknimtinjap
n. wind
bookmarknitschatimi
n. Cordyline fruticosa L.
Example: Leaf: chew (leprosy in mouth). Whole plant: planted for several Kastom purposes; many important Kastom-bound uses as magical or ornamental plant throughout Melanesia.
bookmarknohoaig wai
n. the duck (constellation), the Southern Cross
bookmarknom̃o
nopoi
n. species of vine runner; a basket net
bookmarknoporo pora
noporo pora
nowahau
n. Black-spot surgeonfish
Example: Photo by zsispeo / Flickr.com, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknowanu
n. Longfin African conger, moustache conger
Example: Photo by Patrick Randall, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknuden
n. coconut leaves in the middle of the cluster, neither old nor new
bookmarknumnyac
n. a kind of bulbous root
bookmarknumu yehec
pine
n. tree to 20 m, dbh 75 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4976). Loanword for introduced species.
Example: This tree was introduced as a source of timber and has been widely planted on this part of the island. The cone is used to throw on a fire as it is said that the smoke will keep away mosquitoes.
bookmarktabake
n. herb 1 m tall, flowers pink (collection: Michael J. Balick #4923)
Example: Collect the yellow leaves, the mature ones, roll it between one’s hands, squeezing it, and dry it in the sun for a day and hang it in the kitchen near the place where fires are made, and within a week it will turn black. It is ready to be smoked--roll paper around it and smoke it. Take 6-10 leaves, roll them up and squeeze them into a bucket of water mixing the juice with the water until it turns somewhat green. Use this water to wash crops such as legumes and other garden plants to kill insects that might be attacking them.
bookmarktehtehen
n. blossom (open)
bookmarktilaconai
n. first quarter of the moon
bookmarkyecreig
adj. beginning to be ripe, as fruit
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