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ahwai lelcai
v. to plant weeds; to make a wilderness or a waste
bookmarkanaclelen
n. forecast
bookmarkauoc
adj. unripe
bookmarkcap
adj. red (color)
bookmarkehmehma
adj. healed, applied to wounds; ripe; yellow
bookmarkehyiyihi
v. to teaze, as cotton; also "ehyeiyihi"
bookmarkelv-
pre. far; long; applied to distance or time
bookmarkelwa nieg
v.n. to blossom as reeds
bookmarkhui heldei
v.n. to sail
bookmarkigcapok
n. seaward
bookmarkincet tal
n. a basket of taro
bookmarkincetceianalañ
incowos yag
n. plant used to make ceremonial head wreath and neck garland
bookmarkinlahlah
n. daylight
bookmarkinlobot
n. croton plant
bookmarkinmauwad picad
n. a convolvulus with white flowers; also "inmauwad ahi"
bookmarkintaig um has
n. kind of taro
bookmarkintucjip
n. bush land; also "inteucjip"
bookmarkinyade
n. kind of banana
bookmarkjigkom
[ʧiŋkum] n. chewing gum
bookmarkkaraka
n. kind of tree
bookmarklelceije
v.n. to walk abroad
bookmarkleyei cap
n. kind of taro
bookmarknacñanp̃aiñ
naerumãn
nafakeka
n. coconut spathes
bookmarknagereta
nahed u paralelcei
nalvi pece
n. isle, island
bookmarkname cedo
namou
napat
n. a cloud, blackness, darkness
bookmarknapau emilmat
n. kind of taro
bookmarknapod
n. tree to 10 m, dbh 30 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4900)
Example: Before there was soap, people took the young leaves and crushed them on a stone to make suds for washing clothes in the river. This tree has a very hard wood and can be used for house posts. The sap is reddish and the bark boiled in water until it is red, consumed 2-3 times daily (1 cup each time) until the person feels well. The condition treated is that when a menstruating woman has sex with a man, and he feels tired and lethargic, drinking this tonic makes him feel stronger.
bookmarknasahas
n. a small water-plant
bookmarknauad
n. kind of tree
bookmarknawa
n. shrub. Village pathways. ornamental. (collection: Ashley A McGuigan #7)
Example: 1. Heat the leaves then place on the sore muscle. 2. Edible plant, cook young leaves until soft and then can eat, as a vegetable or soup, with any food. 3. Same use as AAM 3 to heat and put on body to heal pain. 4. On a reef when it is time to protect the reef to conserve it and bring more fish, you take this plant and put it in the hole in the reef – cut stem and put it in reef in several parts. People will know it is under protection and respect it.
bookmarknaytmas
n. tree to 5 m, dbh 4 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4898)
Example: The leaves are used to cover goat or pig meat when a person is roasting it on an earth oven It prevents it from burning and enhances the taste of the meat.
bookmarknefilitikgan
n. kind of taro
bookmarknekro
nelgou waj
nepek cat
nepiloan
n. tender shoots
bookmarknese
n. shrub to 2 m, flowers white. forest near house. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4871)
Example: A handful of flower buds are collected and put into water with 1-2 pieces of papaya roots. Heat the water and drink it hot for the treatment of hypertension or vein problems, or to promote circulation in overweight people. Do this treatment 1x a month. The white sap is collected and used to soften octopus flesh for eating. Put sap, fruits and chopped leaves in a bowl and add the octopus, allowing it to remain in the bowl for 1 hour--this will soften the flesh of the animal. The sap can be used to wash the skin of tough beef or wild pig--it helps to "burn" off (remove) the skin. When cooking tough meat, take young fruits of this tree and cut them up and put them in the pot with the meat, boil it to soften the meat which can then be cooked.
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nidin
n. sap
bookmarkniditau
n. tree, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3507)
Example: The young leaves and fruits are edible; the fruits are eaten ripe. This species is used for firewood as well as house posts, but they don’t last as long as other types of wood so they are used in temporary structures. A sacred plant on Aneityum. Name means linkage between this world and the spirit world. Agriculture – you find this tree ?? it means that the land is fertile. Birds eat fruits; people burn the tree to release ash and fertilizer and grow their taro around it – it will give more food. Message plant – if someone puts a long brown on your door or in your garden, it means “why are you here?” Implies that you should go back to where you belong. You don’t belong in this place. For example instead of quarreling over land dispute, put the branch and it means that you should leave this place.
bookmarknijcel
n. tree, 8-9 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3655)
Example: 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. Take 4-5 leaves and wrap the food with the leaves. Tie a rope around the food and tie them all together using any strong vine. They can then be cooked over an open fire.
bookmarknijmese
n. green foliage
bookmarknijwou
n. vine climbing up a macaranga tree, growing in open disturbed area. Fruits green. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3588)
Example: 1. To build a cyclone house, take the vine of this species to tie pieces of the house. To prepare the vine for use as rope, collect many feet of it, put it in a fire, roll it in a figure 8, wait until it softens and then use for tying. This vine is hard and needs to be heated to a high temperature in the fire to make it soft; the person preparing this must use gloves to tie it to the posts and rafters while it is still warm. When it cools, it is very strong. Rope made from this vine will last a long time--perhaps 10-15 years. It can also be used to make a regular house. However, it is not as strong as GMP #3589. 2. For men who want rasta in hair, take a few leaves and dry them, burn with some other plants to rub on the rasta and keeps it healthy, keep from splitting.
bookmarknipjinecei vanteigin
nisasin
n. ray of light in the morning
bookmarknititan cei
nohmun wai
n. bank (of a river)
bookmarknohwan nuputu
n. kind of taro
bookmarknoporo pora
nop̃a
[nok͡pa] adj. grey ash (color)
bookmarknucye
n. the red star, the "hand" in the constellation Orion; also "necye"
bookmarknugep
[nugep] n. Mackinlay’s cuckoo dove
Example: Photo by David Cook Wildlife Photography / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
bookmarknugnyimtau noho
n. kind of palm
bookmarknumujced
n. fern to 0. 75 m, sori brown. Growing in pine forest. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4983)
Example: Join two of the inrolled fronds together at the part where the frond is opening (the tip that is curled) such that the leaves are held together by their unfolding growing tips. Place this along the path that is frequented by a wild pig (they travel along paths) and when the pig passes these two leaves, and is chased by a hunter’s dogs, these leaves in this formation are said to sap some of the pig’s energy and thus allow the dogs to catch up with it. This was explained to Tony by another person who mentioned it as a sort of magical power possessed by this type of fern.
bookmarknässa
safenunui
n. kind of taro
bookmarksemi
adv. down hither
bookmarkyatit
n. kind of banana
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