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aihon
v. to spit on leaves; to chew leaves for sickness
bookmarkataka
v.n. sail without making headway
bookmarkehlili
v. to burn ground for planting
bookmarkehmehma
adj. healed, applied to wounds; ripe; yellow
bookmarkEk idivaig nenis ainyak
phr. I am quite useless
bookmarkeriseris
v.a. to climb
bookmarkinceimu
n. tree, 7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3464)
Example: This is a sacred plant. The wood is used for rafters in house building. To plant taro, take an 8 cm diameter stick, sharpen it and use to make holes for planting. The stick is as long as needed for a person to stand while making the hole.
bookmarkincepñekrei
incet edwa
incispev
n. tree, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3547)
Example: This plant is for medicine to treat a spiritual condition related to the coral snake that is the seawater spirit. When a woman is pregnant, some times she gets sick, so use this leaf with 2-3 other unspecified leaves and mash them together, squeeze the juice into a small cup (bamboo), wave around the woman’s body, and then put a few drops onto her head and body, then she drinks the rest. This will help heal her sickness. This treatment can be used for men who have a toothache from eating too much fish--the seawater spirit of the coral snake makes the tooth hurt. It is used in the same way as for a pregnant woman. If the pain from the toothache is really from the seawater spirit, then this will cure it; if not, it will not help.
bookmarkincuwukava
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n. vine, growing in coastal forest. Fruits purple. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3556)
Example: A man named Johnnie (Reuben’s grandfather) brought this vine to Aneityum to use it as a rope to tie objects. The ripe fruits are used to paint the face and hands and children make drawings from this dye.
bookmarkinlepei owonp̃oded
inmahim nakowai
n. kind of taro
bookmarkinmathethi
n. Tabernaemontana padacaqui
Example: leaf used for for wounds; cold maceration taken internally against "skin cancer" (severe wounds?). Stalk, chewed, influences sex of an embryo in favor of a girl.
bookmarkinmauwad imrig
n. a convolvulus with blue or reddish flowers
bookmarkinmayinpak
n. Peacock hind
Example: Photo by Andrew J. Green / Reef Life Survey, License: CC BY-A 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarkintal yag
n. kind of taro
bookmarkinwai meteuc
n. the sweet potato
bookmarkinwaj
n. Hound needlefish, crocodile long-tom
Example: Photo by Philippe Bourjon / Fishbase, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarkinyac
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarkkaias elauoh
n. kind of taro
bookmarkmac
n. cup (mug)
bookmarkmaprum
nabuthwä
nadine
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknadoni
n. prickly shrub
bookmarknagdenayi
n. kind of taro
bookmarknagig
n. kind of taro
bookmarkname cedo
namohos
n. Green jobfish
Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknanad
n. shrub. Growing near the beach. (collection: Ashley A McGuigan #4)
Example: 1. Dried branches from this plant can be used to roast vegetable crops that women eat if they have problems becoming pregnant. 2. Firewood, burns well. 3. Some people will eat the green fruit for protection against black magic. Eat 5 fruits for this. Eat it only once – will last for a year.
bookmarknapisinijvaig
n. kind of sugarcane
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.
bookmarknatimihas
n. terrestrial fern, growing in dense rainforest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4095)
Example: 1. The name means "cranky person". If someone fastens this plant around his head as a deocrative lei, it means that this person is not happy. He does not want to talk or communicate with anybody. The use is no longer common, and now many people do not know the signficance.
bookmarknaupigat
necna
n. Fringelip mullet
Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknecsap
n. shrub to 2 m, flowers white. Red clay soil (collection: Michael J. Balick #4887)
Example: The stem makes a good digging stick to plant taro. Also branches of this tree are cut to tie the canoe to the outrigger. Used for the small sticks that sit at the base of the larger sticks that hold the outrigger (see photos).
bookmarknedec
[neθeɣ] n. Collared Kingfisher
Example: Photo by JJ Harrison, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
bookmarkneijis ieg
n. a bundle of reeds for a torch; a torch
bookmarknejecjec
nelehel
n. a light wind
bookmarknelkap̃aeñ
nemtanla
n. herb to 1 m, flowers yellow. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4892)
Example: If a person is coming to a "new" village, e.g. not their own, and they have a branch in their hand, it means that they are coming in peace and not trying to harm anyone else in the new village. Or if they are asking for something that might be found in the new village, they hold the branch of this species and pass it to a person from that village so they will accept you.
bookmarknerid u uncat
n. the tow of flax
bookmarknhujac
nihpad
n. kind of tree
bookmarknijkowai
n. Spanish flag, stripey
Example: Photo by Ian Shaw / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknijman
niju
n. Green humphead parrotfish, bumphead parrotfish
Example: Photo by Klaus Stiefel / Flickr, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknipʧinite
nispev
n sea snake
bookmarkniyeg
n. grass to 1. 5-2. 0 m tall, inflorescence white. Red clay soil (collection: Michael J. Balick #4885)
Example: Cut this grass in the morning, let dry for 2 days, and then use to weave the roof of a house. This is thicker and heavier than a coconut leaf. Also, use for cyclone house. (see photos of house) When indicating something is Tabu, tie the leaf and put it in an object like ripe bananas and people know it is Tabu and will not take it away.
bookmarknohmun wai
n. bank (of a river)
bookmarknohor
[nohor] n. Woodford’s Rail
Example: Illustration by John Gerrard Keulemans / Wikimedia Commons, License: Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
bookmarknohun
n. stem
bookmarknuhlinevai
n. kind of banana
bookmarknup inceen
n. the rib of a leaf
bookmarknwujvaeñ
n. vine climbing up ficus wassa, growing in dense rainforest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4016)
Example: 1. The vine is use to lash roof rafters to house posts. The vine is collected from the forest and coiled ina figure 8 pattern. It is then heated over a fire before fastening the rafter to the post. 1 minute of heat is sufficient, before one immediately uses the vine.
bookmarknälmaha
n. Ficus septica var. cauliflora
bookmarknälmaha
n. unidentified species
Example: Fresh leaves: special Kastom ceremony used to treat severe abdominal pain during pregnancy
bookmarkpakauoc
adj. unripe
bookmarkpok
adv. seaward
bookmarkuagas
wiwi
n. kind of breadfruit
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