-ko
affix
yonder; away from
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 91
bookmark
anaforofata
eloah
v.
to blossom, as reeds; also "elwa"
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 77
bookmark
erijai
v.n.
to rise up; to overflow as sea on land; to get ashore
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 78
bookmark
inara
listenloadingplaying
[iɲara]
n.
Honeyeater, grey and orange (Vanuatu Honeyeater)
Example: Photo by Olivier Boissier, IBC973343. Photo of Vanuatu Honeyeater Gliciphila notabilis at Sola, Vanuatu. License: All rights reserved. Accessible on Internet Bird Collection
Scientific name: Gliciphila notabilis, Speaker: Jack Keitadi
bookmark
incanaij yohon
n.
kind of plant, grass, or fern
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120
bookmark
inceomlow
listenloadingplaying
n.
small tree, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4021)
Scientific name: Astronidium aneityense, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
bookmark
ingidyinyat
n.
sandalwood
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 85
bookmark
inhen owuh
injedete anawanarin
inlepei u inpoded
listenloadingplaying
n.
epiphyte on a fallen branch, growing in rain forest on the mountain slope. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3287)
Scientific name: Huperzia phlegmaria, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
bookmark
inlepei u inpoded ataheñ
listenloadingplaying
n.
epiphyte on dead log, growing in dense rainforest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4105)
Example: 1. This plant is considered bad luck when hunting or fishing. When doing these activities, do not decorate your hair with them. 2. This plant is used to weave the sheath portion of "nambas". First the stems are retted, then the inner portion of the plant removed. Once removed, the sheath is woven with the blanched fiber. 3. This is considered the female version of this plant. See GMP #4104, Phlegmarius sp. for the male version.
Scientific name: Phlegmariurus squarrosus, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
bookmark
inlobot
n.
croton plant
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 139
bookmark
inpakanhas
listenloadingplaying
n.
fallen tree, growing in coastal vegetation along strand. Flowers orange. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3554)
Example: The stems are used for house posts as they are very strong.
Scientific name: Cordia subcordata, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
bookmark
intaji
listenloadingplaying
[intaʧi]
n.
notches carved into a tree, used as footholds for climbing tree to harvest coconut
Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, April 2016.
Speaker: Osiani Nerian
bookmark
intowosjei
listenloadingplaying
n.
terrestrial orchid, 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3708)
Scientific name: Calanthe chrysantha, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
bookmark
inwou itoga
listenloadingplaying
n.
kind of flowering plant (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4758)
Scientific name: Pyrostegia venusta, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
bookmark
inwowityuwun
listenloadingplaying
n.
parasitic vine scrambling over Scaevola taccada, at edge of strand. Fruits green. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3545)
Example: 1. Take a handful of vine, pound it and wash hair, like shampoo – makes hair curly and like rasta. 2a. This is a "message plant." If a person is walking through a village that is not his, people know that they come in peace. 2b. Message plant - if a group is discussing something and one person goes out and makes a head les of this vine, it means that there can’t be an agreement. 2.) If you are angry at a person, drop the vine at their door, in the case of a visitor or land dispute and they need to leave.
Scientific name: Cassytha filiformis, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
bookmark
jumasjuma
listenloadingplaying
[ʧumasʧuma]
n.
Fork-tailed swift
Example: Photo by ozma/Flickr, License: CC BY 2.0 via Flickr
Scientific name: Apus pacificus, Speaker: Jack Keitadi
bookmark
lakasia
listenloadingplaying
n.
kind of flowering plant (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4767)
Scientific name: Leucaena leucocephala, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
bookmark
leyei
n.
kind of taro
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119
bookmark
nacñanp̃aiñ
listenloadingplaying
n.
terrestrial fern, growing in dense rainforest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4086)
Example: 1. The name describes a sea bird, whose long legs are similar in shape to the stipe of this fern.
Scientific name: Diplazium oblongifolium, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
bookmark
naha
listenloadingplaying
n.
lily. Cultivated grows in village. (collection: Ashley A McGuigan #3)
Example: 1. To cure the sea snake (nispev) curse that causes missed periods. First the husband must combine 4 young leaves of incispev and 4 young leaves of nafanu and mash and squeeze the juice into a small bamboo (1-1.5 inch diameter) The nafanu is important because it is a plant that connects to the sea. Use wildcane leaves cover the bamboo closed. Go to the sick person and unwrap the snake from her. Start from the top and let the woman drink a small part of the potion then wash her with the mixture, making sure to wash head, elbows, knees, feet, and belly. Then take a leaf of naha and break it over the woman’s belly button to break the snake off. Smash the bamboo vessel to pieces. Leave the woman there until the wash dries on her. This takes one whole day and the ceremony in the evening so she can sleep and she must not eat. This ritual is performed by men. 2. Wrap leaf around fish to cook it on fire, tie with pandanus or any bush, vine. Also used to bake Cyrtosperma merkusii in same way as AAM 1 because it has thick watery leaves. 3. For a person who has been burned by the fire, cut the leaf and drip the sap on the burn to cool it – stops burning feeling. 4. If your joints – elbow, wrist, knee, ankle – feel so cold that they are painful, then heat the leaf on both sides and lay it on painful area. It will take the cold and pain away.
Scientific name: Furcraea gigantea, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
bookmark
naijema
n.
cotton
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 95
bookmark
nalak cai
n.
kind of plantain
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119
bookmark
nalak mariaga
n.
kind of plantain
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119
bookmark
namou
listenloadingplaying
n.
shrub, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3502)
Example: The young stems of this tree are used to make bows and arrows. Cut the young, straight stems, dry them and use to carve the bow.
Scientific name: Rhamnella vitiensis, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
bookmark
napannopotan
listenloadingplaying
n.
epiphytic fern, growing in dense rainforest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4098)
Example: 1. The name means "ground cover". It usually grow on the forest floor.
Scientific name: Crepidomanes, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
bookmark
naran
nasjiñao
listenloadingplaying
n.
shrub, 0. 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3603)
Example: This plant has an unspecified use that is considered secret.
Scientific name: Breynia disticha, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
bookmark
natauh
natoga an nauunse
n.
north-north-east wind, between "natoga" and "natoga matahau an jap"
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 168
bookmark
naualha
n.
kind of plant, grass, or fern
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120
bookmark
nauhuluc
n.
wind-related term; no definition provided
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 113
bookmark
necemas moso
listenloadingplaying
n.
terrestrial plant on forest floor, growing in disturbed forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3483)
Example: 1. 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. 2. Use it to produce more fog on top of mountain – use w/ another plant, nap̃at (GMP 3268) – put these in a hole on the sacred stone to ferment as it fills with water. After it rots there will be a lot of fog. Name of stone = NAEMOSO. So the fog helps keep the plants moist and growing well.
Scientific name: Selaginella firmula, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
bookmark
nedaugatmas
n.
kind of tree
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117
bookmark
neheptal
listenloadingplaying
n.
tree to 15 m tall, dbh 25 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4903)
Example: Wood is used to make canoe as it is very light and lasts in salt water. As a styptic to stop bleeding, when a person gets a cut in the bush, scrape off outer bark and use inner bark scrapings to put on cut. Stops bleeding, leave on for one day.
Scientific name: Hernandia moerenhoutiana, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
bookmark
nehio
n.
a hurricane
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 114
bookmark
nekia
n.
terrestrial, occasional (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2487)
Scientific name: Ptisana smithii
bookmark
nekrei
n.
a large bat; the flying fox
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 99
bookmark
nekrei
nepigpig
n.
before daylight
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 100
bookmark
nepnou
nerifake
n.
kind of taro
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119
bookmark
nerop
netohranmul
n.
wind-related term; no definition provided
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 114
bookmark
neusjai
n.
a fern tree
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120
bookmark
neyo
listenloadingplaying
n.
grass to 70 cm tall, sterile. Cultivated at the side of a field. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4958)
Example: The leaves and stems are boiled in water to make tea. The base of the leaves (the whitish part) is used to cook foods that have a strong odor, such as goat or shark. The base is sliced and put in the soup and this helps to keep the smell of the goat or shark from infusing through the rest of the food and making it less palatable. In some areas of Aneityum, such as in cassava fields, there is a fungus that kills the crops. This species is interplanted with the crops to kill that fungus and protect the crop plants.
Scientific name: Cymbopogon citratus, Speaker: Tony Keith
bookmark
nidnaiñ
listenloadingplaying
n.
tree to 4 m tall, dbh 8 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4942)
Example: Wood is strong and light so used to build houses.
Scientific name: Melicope latifolia, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
bookmark
nigiti
listenloadingplaying
n.
hysteranthous geophyte in flowering stage, growing in primary rainforest. Flowers white tinged with pink. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3625)
Scientific name: Dipodium pictum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
bookmark
nigya
n.
a plant like a banana
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 101
bookmark
nijcel
listenloadingplaying
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.
Scientific name: Dillenia neoebudica, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
bookmark
nijcel
listenloadingplaying
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.
Scientific name: Dillenia biflora, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
bookmark
nijom arahed
nilidie
n.
leaves to put food on
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 102
bookmark
niri atga
niyeg
listenloadingplaying
n.
grass. Found in disturbed area behind the village. (collection: Ashley A McGuigan #12)
Example: 1. To cure the sea snake (nispev) curse that causes missed periods. First the husband must combine 4 young leaves of incispev and 4 young leaves of nafanu and mash and squeeze the juice into a small bamboo (1-1.5 inch diameter) The nafanu is important because it is a plant that connects to the sea. Use wildcane leaves cover the bamboo closed. Go to the sick person and unwrap the snake from her. Start from the top and let the woman drink a small part of the potion then wash her with the mixture, making sure to wash head, elbows, knees, feet, and belly. Then take a leaf of naha and break it over the woman’s belly button to break the snake off. Smash the bamboo vessel to pieces. Leave the woman there until the wash dries on her. This takes one whole day and the ceremony in the evening so she can sleep and she must not eat. This ritual is performed by men. 2. Main plant to thatch roof of local houses. 3. Collect the dry stems, tie together, use as a torch at night for walking or walking along the reef when fishing. 4. Take 1 cane and tie the leaves together and tie on a tree to indicate tabu – e.g. a citrus tree that will be ripe soon to tell people not to pick it. 5. To catch crabs just before sunset, burn the torch and shake the ashes on the rocks; come back an hour or so later and the crabs are attracted by the ashes and you can collect them. 6. Can also use to weave walls of house. 7. Women clean the leaves of the stem and use the hard part of the stem to strip pandanus leaf before weaving a basket. 8. Cut wild cane in half and sharpen the end, use this to cut the dried pandanus leaves into small strips. 9. Tie leaves into a knot and stick the knot on the kava stem; t is means that this kava goes “express” so the carrier goes to one border of a village and passes it to another person who knows it cannot stop in this village but goes to the next border and is passed on 10. This plant is a “message plant” to say “don’t stop,” referring to something being delivered.
Scientific name: Saccharum maximum, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
bookmark
noducnas
n.
a bunch of taro
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 103
bookmark
nofowai
n.
river
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 179
bookmark
nomropom
listenloadingplaying
n.
shrub to 2 m, flowers white (collection: Michael J. Balick #4874)
Example: This plant is an indicator of rich soil, especially up on the hills from the coast. Therefore, this is where people choose to do their gardens. This specimen is in red soil that is not rich so it does not grow tall, but in the mountains it does grow tall and that is where gardens are planted. Wood from the tree is used for carving.
Scientific name: Weinmannia denhamii, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
bookmark
nomyatamain
noperihapu
n.
the north-north-west wind
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 113
bookmark
nugnas iran
n.
a bunch of taro
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 104
bookmark
nugnyin jap
n.
the ebbing tide
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 104
bookmark
numuyehec
listenloadingplaying
n.
tree (sparsely branched until canopy), 8-10 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3450)
Example: 1. Wood used for house posts and for small parts of the house such as a porch. 2. Timber tree, house posts, young trees for roof rafters.
Scientific name: Syzygium kajewskii, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
bookmark
nälmaha
n.
Ficus septica var. cauliflora
Speaker: Bradacs 2011, p. 443
bookmark
pakine
n.
maize
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 164
bookmark
rere
adj.
leafless; fading
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 107
bookmark
tilaconai
n.
first quarter of the moon
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 109
bookmark
upuhas
v.n.
to sprout
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 111
bookmark