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-ko
affix yonder; away from
bookmarkaridjai
v.a. to ascend, to go up
bookmarkarijai
v.n. to go ashore, to go from sea, to arise or overflow, as sea over land.
bookmarkeceijo
n. tide flowing a little, begun to flow
bookmarkehlek
v. to seek food, as taro; to gather, to reap
bookmarkehlili
v. to burn ground for planting
bookmarkereinmerei
n. the clear part of the moon when first seen
bookmarkfara
n. pineapple
bookmarkingidyinyat
n. sandalwood
bookmarkinlepei u inpoded
n. epiphyte, growing in secondary forest along trail above river. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3664)
Example: This plant is used to make a head garland, but if you are going hunting or fishing do not put this on your head as you will not be successful in your quset. This is the grass skirt for the spirits; you can hear them but you cannot see them.
bookmarkinlepei u inpoded atam̃wain
inmadeded
n. kind of tree
bookmarkinmenyau
inmesese
n. the cold season; winter
bookmarkinpak
n. species of banyan
bookmarkintak apnyin
n. the following day
bookmarkintisiancai
n. blossom (open)
bookmarkinwai
n. water; fresh water
bookmarkinwaj
Reef needlefish, Reef longtoms
Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarkinyebec
n. Bluespine unicornfish
Example: Photo by Ross D. Robertson / Shorefishes of the Neotropics, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarkinyiivac
inyuc
n. the name of a plant
bookmarknadiat meto
n. the middle of the forenoon
bookmarknagdajija
n. kind of breadfruit
bookmarknahaijcai
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknamesei
napod
n. kind of tree
bookmarknapojev
n. tree to 5 m, dbh 10 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4889)
Example: The leaves are used to cover meat when baking it in a stone oven (inmawum). This will soften the meat and keep it moist. Used when other species of this genus are not available, for example if you are in the bush.
bookmarknareuc henau
n. a species of grass
bookmarknarevaro
nategpece
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknathut u nadiat
n. dawn of day
bookmarknauaneig
n. a reed
bookmarknaupitju
n. treelet, 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3622)
Example: People use the leaf of this plant to tie over grated banana, taro or other foods for cooking in an earth oven or boiling in a pot. The root of this species is edible. Cook it for 2-3 nights in an earth oven and then chew and squeeze the juice into your mouth, spitting out the fiber. It is a survival food.
bookmarknauwatamu
n. kind of sugarcane
bookmarknedwonomo
nejecjec
nejeg tau
nelm̃ae
n. small tree. Found in the village, but not cultivated. (collection: Ashley A McGuigan #17)
Example: 1. Ancestors used this plant to make fish line – cut young branches, remove outer bark and tie together, put in salt water or fresh water for a week, it is now strong, dry in sun, take fibers and twist them together to make a very long fishing line. 2. Leaves are used to feed pigs. 3. Take inner bark, scrape it and put on boils. Attach with any leaf and it takes out the boil. 4. Trunk for temporary bush house.
bookmarknerin cat
n. green pandanus leaf
bookmarknetjeñ
nidei
n. kind of sugarcane
bookmarknidel
n. a meteor; also "nidil"
bookmarknihivai
n. Macaranga dioca
Example: Inner bark: bathe in cold infusion, wounds. Mix heated over fire and taken out during sunset. Healer clenches the package in his fist, then gently punches the patients left, then right knee, then his forehead and finally squeezes over his head, migraine a
bookmarknijmanyahao
n. Yellow-Edged Moray
Example: Photo by Bernard Dupont, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknipjid acen
n. citron; lemon; lime tree
bookmarkniridunumu
nisil
n. the center rib of the coconut leaflet; wire
bookmarknitet
n. kind of tree
bookmarknohopcop
nohos aiyu
n. the sweet banana
bookmarknohos u nekrei
n. the flying-fox banana
bookmarknohwai vaine mese
n. raisin
bookmarknohwan nefara
n. kind of taro
bookmarknoposeri
n. tree, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3506)
Example: 1. The leaves of this plant are used in a kastom ceremony; crush the leaves and put in a head garland or on an arm band to release a pleasant odor during a kastom dance. The name of the plant is stated in a kastom song. 2. The leaf is a component for making "love magic." Crush these leaves as well as other unspecified leaves in a person’s hand while stating the name of the person you wish to fall in love with you, and it is said that they will. 3. Message plant – There are special people who compose traditional song about the person or legends, history, so the person who wants the song gives the composer this plant with other unspecified plants and the composer will have a dream that night and spirits will give song and melody and compose a song. Song is for Kastom ceremony singing while dancing.
bookmarknuarin marara
n. dale
bookmarknucsei
n. kind of taro
bookmarknumrauad
n. a halo around the sun or moon
bookmarknwujvaeñ
n. vine climbing on Myristica fatua, growing in primary rainforest. Fruits green. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3615)
Example: This vine is used to make rope. Collect the stem, roll it in a figure 8, heat it on a fire and tie it on a house while the vine is still hot. Weave a ?? net to catch fish.
bookmarknädoiatmas
tedtedwaleg
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarkuhup a nelgo waj
weite
adj. perennial (applied to water); also "etweite", "inweite"
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