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-ki
affix in this direction; here; this
bookmarkaihon
v. to spit on leaves; to chew leaves for sickness
bookmarkapnyin
n. time; weather; day; morning
bookmarkgras
ham
v.n. to come
bookmarkigcapok
n. seaward
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inhenid
n. kind of sugarcane
bookmarkinmadedi
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.
bookmarkinman anjap
n. sea bird
bookmarkinmerei
n. tree to 2 m tall,dbh 40 com (collection: Michael J. Balick #4877)
Example: To treat a local disease (that causes pain in the stomach) called "Namya," peel off the outer bark, collect 1 handful of inner bark, boil with 1/2 liter of water, drink warm, 3 cups/daily, for 3 days. At that point the person will feel that "the weakness is no longer in the body." After 3 days of treatment the pain in the stomach goes away. Wood is used for posts; leaves for compost for holes that people will plant taro in--line the bottom of the hole before placing soil and taro in it.
bookmarkinmereijcil
n. kind of breadfruit
bookmarkinmohtan nohos
n. kind of taro
bookmarkinmunuka
n. thunder
bookmarkinpece lelicai
n. kind of tree
bookmarkintesyaniau
n. grass to 3 m, flowers brown. Growing in degraded secondary forest along trail. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4969)
Example: The stem of this plant is used to make walls of houses. Collect the stem and remove the leaves, and then take one of the bush vines (any of them) and tie the stems into bundles for making house walls or fences for chicken pens. Children make a whistle from a hollow piece of stem from this plant.
bookmarkinwaimeteuc
n. sweet potato
bookmarkkaleteug
n. kind of tree
bookmarkkapou
n. gun
bookmarkleucen
adj. ripe, as taro
bookmarkmasoa
n. arrowroot
bookmarkmuri muri
naerek
n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3492)
Example: 1. Used for firewood. Whole plant used to make a broom for sweeping by tying the small branches together. The very topmost leaves are used when planting kava, as a “superstition” you hold a lead between your big and second toes when tamping the earth down for a kava plant, to give power to earth so kava grows well. 2. This plant is used to make a local broom. Collect a number of branches, let them dry in the sun--the leaves will fall off--then tie the branches together with a piece of Pandanus leaf or any other vine that is handy.
bookmarknafakeka
n. coconut spathes
bookmarknagereta
nahad
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknahed u paralelcei
nakautefa
n. kind of tree
bookmarknamaj
n. kind of taro
bookmarknanad
napau emilmat
n. kind of taro
bookmarknap̃ojev
n. well branched tree, 14 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3651)
Example: Poles made from this plant are used for house rafters and burned for firewood. To plant taro in a swampy area, collect the leaves of this species and put them in the hole where the taro is to be planted, mix with a bit of soil and then plant the taro on top of that. Leaves are a type of fertilizer. Used when baking with the earth oven. Hot stones cover the food and then the leaves from this plant cover the stones. The leaves stay on the branch.
bookmarknariko cei
n. fence-forming shrub, 1. 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3206)
Example: 1a. Cultivated in gardens. Cook seeds of this species or eat them raw before they are fully ripened. The green pods can also be cooked in a fire and eaten. 1b. Cultivated plant for its edible seeds, can be prepared in a pot of bamboo. OR could take branches w/ seeds and put directly on the earth oven for cooking. 2. Planting this species adds nitrogen to the soil--grow it on soil that is said to be "tired."
bookmarknasiaij
n. a native plant, the leaves of which are used as cabbage
bookmarknataimu
n. Brassy trevally
Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknatau anyiyi
n. kind of banana
bookmarknauram
n. kind of banana
bookmarknauram milmat
n. kind of banana
bookmarkneaig aged
n. a spotted coconut
bookmarknedouyatmas
nehel
nehlan
n. a shrub, a plant, a sucker
bookmarkneijiv
n. fir; pine
bookmarknejeg
n. tree, growing in forest at edge of wide tidal stream (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3535)
Example: 1. The wood is strong and good to make house posts. People use these for this purpose on the coast as salt water does not bother this wood. 2. People eat fruit, split fruit in half, carefully scrape the inner part into a pot of water, keep over night – next day rinse, fry or cook with coconut milk and can add tinned tuna for example, very hard work.
bookmarknepekhau
nepilvan
n. tender shoots
bookmarknesei
n. forest
bookmarknetjeñ
nevehev
n. current of air
bookmarknidin
n. sap
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.
bookmarknijig an nepig
n. midnight; also "nijihgan nepig"
bookmarknijiga
n. a branch of red coral
bookmarknimhag
n. branch (large)
bookmarknimtinjap
n. wind
bookmarknisyeg
n. tree, 7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3521)
Example: 1. The inner bark of this plant is used as a dye or paint to provide a brown color. Boil the inner bark in a pot with a shirt and the color of the shirt will be changed to brown. 2. For toothache, people take the inner bark and mix it with sea water, and then rinse the tooth with this mixture to remove the pain. 3a. People macerate the leaves and the bark and when the tide is low, spread this in a pool of water to poison the sea shells that are edible. When they die, the eyes of this organism comes above the sand, indicating where they are, and people harvest and eat them. 3b. To attract and collect clam – NIPJINUMU – scrape bark in a pool of sea water where the clams are attracted immediately and can be collected, coming up from the sand. 4. Firewood, unspecified medical use.
bookmarknithwunitei
tree fern, trunk 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4102)
Example: 1. There are kinds of this plant. This is considered the white one. See GMP # 4100, textit{Cyathea sp}, which is considered the black one.
bookmarknohwai vaine mese
n. raisin
bookmarknucja
n. kind of sugarcane
bookmarknudto
n. small tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3452)
Example: 1a. The stem of this plant is used to make a spear, as it is always straight and very strong. It is a small growing plant, just right for length of a spear. 1b. Make a spear for fishing, peel bark, heat stem, affix points to end. 2. Name is the name of a fish. 3. Rafters for roof.
bookmarknugnas iran
n. a bunch of taro
bookmarknuhlinevai
n. kind of banana
bookmarknumrinhou
n. Humpback red snapper, paddletail
Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknupsin itai
n. seed
bookmarkridiau mayi
n. kind of taro
bookmarkrohalrohal
adj. rough, applied to sugarcane-leaf thatch
bookmarkupsahu
n. the seed of breadfruit that is not firm
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