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-ki
affix in this direction; here; this
bookmarkahlaujai
v.n. go up
bookmarkcustard apple
n. tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3520)
Example: Children sometimes eat this fruit but it smells bad. Adults do not eat it. An introduced species so there is no local name.
bookmarkEk idivaig nenis ainyak
phr. I am quite useless
bookmarkeriseris
v.a. to climb
bookmarketjo itac
v.n. to fall behind; to come late
bookmarkhas
adj. bad, wicked; eheshas, very bad
bookmarkincepñekrei
incipiñti
inciñpiñti
inga
inlapnan
n. a plantation
bookmarkinmadidi
n. tree to 7 m, dbh 30 com (collection: Michael J. Balick #4870)
Example: This plant is used for spiritual purposes. When fruits are young, the children take the fruit, cut it open and take coconut leaf midribs, impaling the seeds on the midribs and painting themselves with the fruit.
bookmarkinmehtas
n. kind of breadfruit
bookmarkinmehtit
n. breadfruit crop in October
bookmarkinmejcop
inmopoñ
n. tree, 10 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3516)
Example: The young stems are used to make fishing spears. These stems are also used to make the poles that connect an outrigger to a traditional canoe, as they are light and strong. The large trees have extensive roots and stumps and are used as a pen for pigs by making a fence from these.
bookmarkinpan
n. kind of banana
bookmarkintaig apig
n. kind of taro
bookmarkintal milmat
n. kind of taro
bookmarkintiklan cai
n. tops of branches
bookmarkinyat
n. tree, 10 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3645)
Example: The ripe fruits of this plant are edible and said to be delicious as well as smell very good. When the fruits turn brown and soft you can open it and there will be a shell like an upsidedown turtle shell. You can eat the fruit out. As the fruit smells good, people put a basket of ripe fruits in their homes to give it a good smell. The unripe fruits can be eaten, but only when cooked in an earth oven so it is not sticky. The tree can be used for sawn timber. Can be used for building house, specifically the house posts. Number one timber.
bookmarkinyehec
n. mandrake
bookmarkjupmulmul
n. the cool of the evening
bookmarknagai
n. the name of a tree with fruit like almonds
bookmarknagig
n. kind of taro
bookmarknahrin hat
n. kind of taro
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nanec
n. tree, 7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3633)
Example: To cook Alocasia (wild taro), use the dry wood of this plant as firewood. The leaves of this plant are also used to line the earth oven on top of the food and on bottom of the food to insulate it from the high heat of cooking.
bookmarknapijelcau
n. kind of banana
bookmarknapujatha
nap̃od
narayag
n. tree. Growing in village garden. (collection: Ashley A McGuigan #20)
Example: 1. To cure toothache when pregnant - Take the inner bark from Intejed and boil it in a pot of seawater (about 1 liter) along with 2 leaves from each of inpounatmas, narayag, nahayag, and nelmaha. Boil until juice is visibly leaving the plants. Put this water into your mouth and hold it there for 2-3 minutes. Do this this with one cup in the morning, 1 cup in the afternoon, and 1 cup in the evening. 2. Plant used to check with fish has ciguatera, in same way as other collection – GMP #4768. Stick white – OK to eat. Stick black or brown – not good.
bookmarknasjiralcau
natoga ahrei
n. wind-related term; no definition provided
bookmarknauaneig
n. a reed
bookmarknaurakiti
n. herb. Swamp areas. (collection: Ashley A McGuigan #8)
Example: 1. Cervical pain and to return it to normal size - Get a handful of Naurakiti and boil it in a pot of water. This can also be done by rubbing the handful of leaves together and squeezing out the juice into the boiling water but the leaves do not go inside. Sit in this for 2 hours or until cold for 1 a day for a week. 2. Medicine: leaf juice put on fresh cut to stop bleeding. Stomachache, headache – use 1 handful of leaves, squeeze these, put in cup, put in some water and drink it 1x day. 3. Women menstruation that will not stop, take 1 handful of leaves into a cup of water and drink 1x day for 3 days. 4. If a person’s joints are sore, take a handful of leaves, crush them and rub on the sore joints. Some people don’t like to use it internally as it can make some people sick, especially small children, but others say it is OK to use.
bookmarkneduon yau
n. kind of banana
bookmarknehio
n. a hurricane
bookmarknehtumta
n. land newly planted with taro
bookmarknejecjec
nekrei
n. Sailfin tang
Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknelmai
n. a tree from the inner rind of which fishing lines and nets are made. na elmai or elumai, cloth
bookmarknerero
n. calabash
bookmarknetumtehi
n. kind of sugarcane
bookmarknidnaiñ
nigie
n. shrub, 1. 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3537)
Example: This plant is an aphrodisiac. Eat with coconut meat to make the body strong. Take 1/2 handful of leaves and mix with coconut leaves, use as needed. Mostly men eat this combination. It is best to eat with dry coconut that has no water in it. Eat it any time you wish.
bookmarknijcel
n. tree, 10-12 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4061)
Example: 1. When cooking "Naura" (freshwater prawns), the leaves are used to wrap them before they are roasted in a fire. 2. When making lap-lap (a traditional dish made of grated root crops), and the lap-lap leaf is unavailable (Heliconia sp.), use the large leaf of this species to wrap the taro.
bookmarknijcel
n. tree, 7-8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3587)
Example: 1. If the preferred banana leaves are not available to wrap food for cooking, then use young leaves of this species and tie taro and fish for cooking. 2. Use leaves to wrap fresh water prawns and fresh water fish and cook them on charcoal. Use as a cup by making funnel out of leaf and drink from it. 3. Used for unspecified ritual activities.
bookmarknilbudou
niri atga
nisbähäin
n. Dracaena angustifolia
Example: Leaf: cold maceration, emetic, taken internally against ciguatera poison
bookmarknisjin
n. shoots of plants of bananas
bookmarkniʧin neiang
nohor
[nohor] n. Woodford’s Rail
Example: Illustration by John Gerrard Keulemans / Wikimedia Commons, License: Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
bookmarknohos aiyu
n. the sweet banana
bookmarknononhat
n. Blue-lined large-eye bream
Example: Photo by Jean-Lou Justine / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknopugei
nupsi itai
n. corn
bookmarknuputreiki
n. kind of tree
bookmarktatau
n. Great barracuda
Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarkwidinahau
n. kind of banana
bookmarkyasua
n. kind of taro
bookmarkyetse
v.n. to go down
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