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dawarivi
eblaamnem
adj. adjacent
bookmarkehgin
adj. afar
bookmarkhui heldei
v.n. to sail
bookmarkianiv
n. yesterday
bookmarkigcahi
n. landward
bookmarkimehei
n. pandanus leaf
bookmarkimtiat
incanaij yohon
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarkindawoc
inhinid
n. kind of banana
bookmarkinmauwad
n. a convolvulus
bookmarkinmehtit
n. breadfruit crop in October
bookmarkinmesese
n. the cold season; winter
bookmarkinpakanhas
intareihok
inteijid
n. species of pine
bookmarkintijganeno
n. shrub. Found in the village Unames. (collection: Ashley A McGuigan #33)
Example: name = "stonefish ears" 1. To treat rashes - boil 4 leaves in water ad wait until it cools. Wash in this once a day until rash goes away. 2. Stonefish sting – very painful: 1 handful of leaves with squeezed coconut juice – coconut water – from green coconut. Mix the leaves and water and then make a cut in the wound to enlarge it and pour this juice into the wound. In 5-10 minutes the pain will stop, use 1x, very powerful. 3.If a person such as a mother touches the stonefish while preparing it for food, then does not wash hands, can infect a child – and the child will get sores. Take a small branch and boil it in the water and wash the baby with it to make pain go away. 4. Stonefish is a greatly appreciated food that must be prepared carefully by holding the fish by the mouth and not touching the body. Boil the fish to inactivate the poison and then prepare it as a normal fish for cooking. Poison is found in top spine of fish.
bookmarkinwag
n. the evening star
bookmarkinwai
n. water; fresh water
bookmarkinwow ityuwun
inyiriñwei
n. herb, growing along the river at the edge of secondary forest. Stems pale green. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3642)
Example: As a local toothbrush, take two pieces of stems, bend them and use to brush teeth with water. This plant acts like sandpaper to clean the teeth. Can also be used to brush pots.
bookmarklakasia
nafaiava
n. bay (of the sea); creek
bookmarknaheñ
naipomyiv ~ naipomñiv
nalak cai
n. kind of plantain
bookmarknama u niprij
n. herb, growing along garden area. Flowers yellow. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3595)
Example: 1. As a medicine for dengue fever, take a handful of stem apices of this plant, boil in 1-2 cups of water and drink this amount 3x daily, cold, until the fever goes away. This treatment is said to give a person strength during the course of the illness. 2. Take top branch – 2 leaves and put under baby’s pillow, baby will fall into a deep sleep.
bookmarknamji
n. tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3508)
Example: 1. The stems of this plant are sharpened and used to plant swamp taro or dry land taro. 2. Break small branch top put behind ear if you go to an unknown place and keep behind ear and sleep with it. If the place is safe you will sleep if it is not you will not sleep well – only behind ear when you sleep.
bookmarknanec
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.
bookmarknapaeicei
napauwa
n. kind of taro
bookmarknasjiñaho
nathut u nadiat
n. dawn of day
bookmarknau-hos
n. bamboo to 5 m, sterile. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4940)
Example: Used to build walls of local houses. The outer skin is stripped off, stems cut in half then smashed flat, the inside is stripped clean and woven into walls. The cut pieces of entire stems can be filled with food and used for cooking that food. Cover both ends with leaves and cook. If a person has skin that becomes infected, use sharpened stem as a local knife to remove the infected area of skin. Use as a local water pipe to move water from one place to another (nobol). Either split the stem in half or punch the nodes out throughout the entire tube and use as a pipe.
bookmarknaupiñiña
n. terrestrial fern, growing in secondary forest along the river. Leaves c. 2. 25 m long. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3656)
Example: Put several leaves of this species together to wrap food, especially the fresh water eel, and to carry plants of taro, kava, holding the leaves over one’s shoulder to carry these crops.
bookmarknausecrai
n. a species of thorn
bookmarknauwatamu
n. kind of sugarcane
bookmarknecemas
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.
bookmarknedaugatmas
n. kind of tree
bookmarknednaeñ
nefetgau
n. kind of sugarcane
bookmarknegainohos
n. bunch of bananas; also "nigainohos"
bookmarknehevaig
n. kind of tree
bookmarknehpan neaig
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknemit
n. kind of tree
bookmarknepig sepahai
nerero
n. calabash
bookmarknerin cat
n. green pandanus leaf
bookmarkneteng
n. Barringtonia asiatica L.
Example: inner bark: ground, added to dug pools in the sea as fish poison
bookmarkniditau
nigirid
n. tree, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3479)
Example: The leaves of this plant are used in cooking, particuarly with the earth oven. Use a fire to heat stones, then when the fire burns down and the stones are hot, pile these leaves on top of the hot stones and then place the food being cooked--taro, fish, pig, cassava, banana or other foods--on top of the leaves. Then pile more of these leaves on top of the food and then place additional hot stones on top of that pile of leaves. While the food is cooking--each type of food takes a different amount of time--the leaves give off a very nice smell and help flavor the food. The young stems of this plant are used in home construction but as they are small and thin, they are not used for posts.
bookmarkniprij
nohap
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknohwai itai
n. berry
bookmarknosocrei
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknumuyehec
nupunyepec
näüsärop
n. unidentified species
Example: Fresh leaves: special Kastom ceremony used to treat severe abdominal pain during pregnancy
bookmarkrohalrohal
adj. rough, applied to sugarcane-leaf thatch
bookmarksemi
adv. down hither
bookmarktatau
n. Bigeye barracuda
Example: Photo by Philippe Guillaume, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarkupumure
v.n. to fall, as unripe fruit
bookmarkuriicai
adj. made of branches
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