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arijai
v.n. to go ashore, to go from sea, to arise or overflow, as sea over land.
bookmarkEk idivaig nenis ainyak
phr. I am quite useless
bookmarkereuc
v. to shake a branch; to make fruit fall. pl: "ereucereuc"
bookmarketti
v. to split leaves
bookmarketuko, cai
v. to split wood
bookmarkigcase
n. a place down, or westward
bookmarkinceideuc
n. the white wood of a tree
bookmarkinhakli kwori
inhamese an neaig
n. an old coconut
bookmarkinholai
n. Blue sea chub, snubnose chub, topsail drummer
Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via via Fishes of Australia
bookmarkinhubej
n. calabash
bookmarkinhulec
inlepei u inpoded
n. epiphyte, growing in dense rainforest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4104)
Example: 1. This plant is considered bad luck when hunting or fishing. When doing these activities, do not decorate your hair with them. 2. This plant is used to weave the sheath portion of "nambas". First the stems are retted, then the inner portion of the plant removed. Once removed, the sheath is woven with the blanched fiber. 3. This is considered the male version of this plant. See GMP #4105, Phlegmarius sp. for the female version.
bookmarkinmehei ipciv
n. kind of banana
bookmarkinmehtas
n. kind of breadfruit
bookmarkinmeripciv
n. kind of breadfruit
bookmarkinpad
n. kind of palm
bookmarkintate a nelgo waj
intejed
n. tree. Growing in village garden. (collection: Ashley A McGuigan #22)
Example: 1. Timber for houses, hard wood. 2. Fruits have a highly desirable nut that is edible when fresh after cracking the fruit. 3. Medicine – 5 young tips, boiled in 3 cups of water, and steam eyes when have conjunctivitis. 1x. 3. Calendar plant – When the leaves turn red and are ready to fall off from the tree – the lobsters are ready to be harvested – best time to harvest lobsters. Firm tasty meat. This was a traditional population management so that lobsters were not harvested year around but only during this season, Oct–Nov, for a month or 1.5 months.
bookmarkinyje
n. tree to 15 m, dbh 20 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4914)
Example: Use the leaves to make compost to be placed at the bottom of the hole where taro is to be planted, cover with soil and grow the taro in that hole. Serves as a fertilizer.
bookmarknadiat jupki
n. the middle of the afternoon
bookmarknafakaka
n. a blossom; the spathe of a coconut used as light; also "nafaketa"
bookmarknagai
n. the name of a tree with fruit like almonds
bookmarknaijema
n. cotton
bookmarknakweiwei
n. treelet to 1 m, sterile. In transition zone from pine forest to scrub forest. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4981)
Example: The wood is used to make a fishing spear. Cut the straight stems, heat it in fire, straighten it as much as needed, cool the stem, peel the bark off of the stem and let it cure for 1 month. In the past, the end of the spear was carved into a sharp point and used for fishing. Now steel rods are placed on the tip to catch the fish. This is used in shallow water (fresh water or sea water) as the wood is heavy and can sink. People making these spears go to older forests that are higher up to collect the wood.
bookmarknalak u nije
namaka
namlau
nap̃od
nasjiñao
nauad
n. kind of tree
bookmarknawou
necemas
n. fern to 30 cm, cones green (collection: Michael J. Balick #4919)
Example: Use this plant to send a message to someone that another person has died. Take 1 dried leaf, to pass message to another village/tribe or people. Hold it in your hand and walk past a person, then they know that someone has died.
bookmarknecjopdak
n. scrambling vine, growing in coastal strand vegetation. Flowers yellow. 1. Medicine: Smash leaves 1 handful, into cup and add a small amount of water to treat constipation—1 cup for children; 1.5 XX for adults. 2. Stomachache: same treatment, will clear bowel. 3. For leg sores, collect whole plant, put in water – a pool of water for 1 week, then use to dip sore as on leg into it for 10-15 minutes cure the sore. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3437)
bookmarknecjop̃dak
n. prostrate creeping vine along coastlines. (collection: Ashley A McGuigan #10)
Example: 1. To cure rubbush blood - Take a handfull f leaves of any age, pound it into a cupfull of water, squeeze the juice and drink when woman feels pain in head or inside the body or when the inside of the body is hot. Drink this once a day until the pain goes away. 2. To cure excessive bleeding after giving birth - boil naojapdak leaves (2-16) in seawater until leaves are soft and the water is brown. Sit on this water. 3. To close the cervix - boil 2 naojapdak leaves in water and bath in it. 4. Medicine: Smash leaves 1 handful, into cup and add a small amount of water to treat constipation—1 cup for children; 1.5 litres for adults. 5. Stomachache: same treatment, will clear bowel. 6. For leg sores, collect whole plant, put in water – a pool of water for 1 week, then use to dip sore as on leg into it for 10-15 minutes cure the sore.
bookmarknednaiñ lelcei
neihon
n. a chewing of wood, and spitting it on sick people, to cure them; also "naihon"
bookmarknepig upni
nerero
n. calabash
bookmarknete o un
n. west
bookmarknetit tidai
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarkneyaiñ
nidiape
n. kind of sugarcane
bookmarknipjid
n. the orange tree (117); an orange, a lime, a lemon (102)
bookmarknohos aiyu
n. the sweet banana
bookmarknokoro vai cai oho
n. orchard
bookmarknom̃o
nowigma
n. a dried or withered breadfruit tree
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ohod
n. bundle of leaves, as of nasiaij
bookmarkpok ko
adv. seaward yonder
bookmarksepamki
adv. down here
bookmarksiki
adv. down there, at a short distance; also "sike"
bookmarkubutpotet
adj. adjacent
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