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-akahák

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v/a be daylight, dawning

-akur

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v dir come from (especially by walking)

-amweta

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v sneeze

-arpikou

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v intr twitch, jerk about (as a dying fish), slither (as a snake), flop about

-aruái

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v spit, spit out (as chewed kava onto a leaf to wait further preparation)

-asu

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v intr dive (as in the sea), skin dive

-asén

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v agree, concur, nod (once), raise one’s eyebrows

-atampɨg

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v see -ata apɨg

-árukwi

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v 1. shoot, throw (a round object), connect, tie or join together; 2. comb, coif hair in traditional male fashion

aruwai nuk

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pilled yam (skin out)

gɨwava

Fruits eaten when they turn yellow and are ripe.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5079)

Example: Fruits eaten when they turn yellow and are ripe.

hirɨr

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maggot

iapruhu

iapruhu
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kind of crab

iereme se nui

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water devil

Iramaga

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Erromango

jihi flower

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n flower stamen

kapajiko

Lutjanus kasmira http://fishbase.org/summary/Lutjanus-kasmira.html
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Common bluestripe snapper

Example: Photo by Lyle Vail / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

karkarepa

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vine use to tie houseposts

kawasawas

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kind of breadfruit, similar to karuarewa but the fruits are larger and with the same small projections (described as small needles) on the outside of the fruit

Example: This variety is not good for making a canoe as the wood is too soft

kereiri

kereiri
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traditional woven fan

kipori ia tasiapen

Phyllidiella pustulosa https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/49728-Phyllidiella-pustulosa
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Pustulose Wart Slug

Example: Photo by tonydiver / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

konamret

To make tattoo, draw design and then take youngest emerging stem and rub along design. Follow design and it will burn a design in your skin. Birds eat fruits as do fruit bats.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5153)

Example: To make tattoo, draw design and then take youngest emerging stem and rub along design. Follow design and it will burn a design in your skin. Birds eat fruits as do fruit bats.

kourmhin

Micropsitta bruijnii rosea
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Red-breasted Pygmy Parrot

krirɨm kefa

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num nine

krirɨm krirɨm

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num ten ("five five")

kurun

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n. banana leaf

kwaganei

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n. twin apple (Ochrosia oppositifolia)

kwateriu

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n. sling made of pandanus, used to shoot rocks for killing birds

kwonhim

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n. penis

mai táhapwar

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n. leaf bundle

mak sei suatouk

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n bend in the road

makwa sa rukwai nui

makwa sa rukwai nui
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n waning crescent (moon phase)

manarum

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kind of breadfruit, produces a large fruit with a smooth skin and very sweet flesh

Example: When a person eats it, the teeth feel sticky

marao

Sargocentron spiniferum http://fishbase.org/summary/Sargocentron-spiniferum.html
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Sabre squirrelfish

Example: Photo by Andy A. Lewis / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

minim

Siganus argenteus http://fishbase.org/summary/Siganus-argenteus.html
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Streamlined spinefoot, forktail rabbitfish (salt water)

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

minin akwes

Acanthurus nigrofuscus http://fishbase.org/summary/Acanthurus-nigrofuscus.html
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Brown surgeonfish

Example: Photo by David Burdick / via guamreefli License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

nafetuwan

Collect the branches, scrape into a dish, and mix with water to make soap for washing clothes. One can also bathe with it. Also associated is the legend of a rat who, swimming in the sea, gets hungry and goes to this vine to eat. Preparing for a delicious meal, he defecates when he sees this vine. He climbs up to get the fruits on top of the vine, but has been tricked-- they are below! Once he realizes, the branch he is on breaks and he falls into his own feces. He feels bad, as he is both hungry and dirty.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5044)

Example: Collect the branches, scrape into a dish, and mix with water to make soap for washing clothes. One can also bathe with it. Also associated is the legend of a rat who, swimming in the sea, gets hungry and goes to this vine to eat. Preparing for a delicious meal, he defecates when he sees this vine. He climbs up to get the fruits on top of the vine, but has been tricked-- they are below! Once he realizes, the branch he is on breaks and he falls into his own feces. He feels bad, as he is both hungry and dirty.

nakus nani kiri

Photo by Martial Wahe
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n. plant (to be identified)

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

namritaik

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first born child

namtɨgei

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mud

nanas

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n. small plant with red flowers

nanen

Photo by Martial Wahe
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n. tree, 3-4 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

nanumun

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n shadow

napar

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n. traditional house wall of wild cane or bamboo

napua pran

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cumulus cloud

napuei pameta

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n. species of coconut with reddish nuts

naraufanua

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kind of yam, produces a tuber with white flesh and red skin. It can grow long and large in good soil, but is not a sweet yam, more starchy than many others. It is easy to grow

Example: Locally known as a “Chief’s Yam” as it is given to the Chief as a gift because it is one of the original yam varieties grown on Tanna

narparip

Photo by Martial Wahe
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n. flowering plant or tree

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

natgamera

(moss)
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n. petrophyte, growing in deep shade (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3115)

neai

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sky, heavens

nesen

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rain

ni matag

ni matag
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wind

nifar

kind of laplap (food)

nikiskes

Photo by Martial Wahe
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n. parasitic epiphyte growing on upper branches of fagraea berteroana, in dense forest along ridge.

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

nikoraku

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n. small plant with variegated leaves

nikweto

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n. fern tree

nimewae

Use stem to build roof rafters. Before people had matches, this plant was used to light fires by rubbing one stem of this against another piece of the same tree.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5061)

Example: Use stem to build roof rafters. Before people had matches, this plant was used to light fires by rubbing one stem of this against another piece of the same tree.

nirɨs

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n. kind of tree with stinging leaves (Semecarpus vitiensis)

nisei

For Kastom ceremonies, use this plant to decorate the roots of Kava that is given to a chief. Also used in women’s grass skirt for kastom dance. When young girls are getting their first period (menustration), they wear a grass skirt from this plant to be fragrant (in order to cover any blood smell).
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5031)

Example: For Kastom ceremonies, use this plant to decorate the roots of Kava that is given to a chief. Also used in women’s grass skirt for kastom dance. When young girls are getting their first period (menustration), they wear a grass skirt from this plant to be fragrant (in order to cover any blood smell).

nivɨn

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canoe parts: sail

nuk

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fat

nukuk-apran

Vittaria elongata
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n. epiphyte on main trunks of canopy-sized trees, growing in dense forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3120)

nukwanɨn

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his hair

numasur

The wood from this tree makes a very good timber. Hunters know that the flying fox and pigeons like to eat the ripe fruits from this tree, so hunt near them when it is ripe.
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n. tree, 10-12 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3142)

Example: The wood from this tree makes a very good timber. Hunters know that the flying fox and pigeons like to eat the ripe fruits from this tree, so hunt near them when it is ripe.

nusumanu

Children collect young leaves to decorate their exercise books in school. If a person does not want to get too drunk on kava, they will chew 3 leaves before drinking, and spit out remains while swallowing the juice. This plant has the power to reduce effects of Kava.
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n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5142)

Example: Children collect young leaves to decorate their exercise books in school. If a person does not want to get too drunk on kava, they will chew 3 leaves before drinking, and spit out remains while swallowing the juice. This plant has the power to reduce effects of Kava.

nwera

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coconut stage, large sprout

nɨferinfwemamas

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n. kind of Tahitian chestnut

nɨkava napenkaru

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n. Two day kava (one stays intoxicated for two days)

nɨkava riki

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n. kind of small kava with variegated leaves

nɨkoko

Stem used to make canoe. Easy to cut.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5077)

Example: Stem used to make canoe. Easy to cut.

nɨmai

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n. 1. leaf, foliage 2. sheet, leaf (of paper)

nɨmakwinari

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n. traditional ’leaf’ medicines (general term)

nɨmrakw

nɨmrakw
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n. ashes for cleaning, ashes after fire

nɨmu kwatia tasiapen

Pterocaesio trilineata http://fishbase.org/summary/Pterocaesio-trilineata.html
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Three-Stripe Fusilier

Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

nɨmɨmis

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n. kind of sugarcane (see -mƗmis)

nɨperɨm

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n. kind of liana

nɨpokpokai

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fruit stalk (as on a banana)

nɨpunɨpun

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[nɨpunɨpun] spider web

pakau

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barracuda

paupauk

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butterfly

Pawpawuk

Tirumala hamata https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/197078-Tirumala-hamata

Blue Wanderer

Example: Photo by melianie_and_max / iNaturalist, License: CC0 via inaturalist.org

pawpawuk

Theretra nessus https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/52004-Theretra-nessus
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Yam Hawk Moth

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penesu

Scarus longipinnis http://fishbase.org/summary/Scarus-longipinnis.html
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Highfin parrotfish

Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

peáu

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wave, surf

pinerau

Ptilinopus greyii
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[pinerew] Red-Bellied Fruit Dove

Example: Sub-adult Red-bellied Fruit Dove. Photo by Papier K / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

pirawa ~ firawa

Lethrinus laticaudis http://fishbase.org/summary/Lethrinus-laticaudis.html
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Grass emperor

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

poukouri

To chase away pigs that invade a person’s garden, wrap leaves of this species around a stick, hit the pig with it and the pig will not return to the garden to eat the crops.
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n. vine growing up a ficus tree, growing in open forest heavily impacted by cyclone. flowers yellow; fruits brown and fibrous. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3231)

Example: To chase away pigs that invade a person’s garden, wrap leaves of this species around a stick, hit the pig with it and the pig will not return to the garden to eat the crops.

prigsiwir ~ marasaw

Acanthurus lineatus http://fishbase.org/summary/Acanthurus-lineatus.html
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Lined Surgeonfish, Bluelined Surgeonfish ~ marasaw (Port Resolution dialect)

Example: Photo by Erik Schlogl / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

raptasi

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salt sea water

reiai

Acanthurus guttatus http://fishbase.org/summary/Acanthurus-guttatus.html
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Whitespotted Surgeonfish

Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

rerinitakuang

Used to wipe yam for good luck when planting. Take leaves and wipe the yam tuber. Once this tuber is planted, it will grow better due to the luck blessing.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5026)

Example: Used to wipe yam for good luck when planting. Take leaves and wipe the yam tuber. Once this tuber is planted, it will grow better due to the luck blessing.

riginimwa

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n. small house posts that support thatch

ruerau

Ornamental: The tiny seeds, appearing as a powder, are used as a decoration. The plant is used when the fruit is yellow.
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n. terrestrial orchid growing in open field next to disturbed forest along ridge track. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2987)

Example: Ornamental: The tiny seeds, appearing as a powder, are used as a decoration. The plant is used when the fruit is yellow.

suatouk sei kamahao

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n star path

sɨkɨnmantóu

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n. kind of large taro, from Aneityum

tapang ia nusouk matuk

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n my right foot

taparwarewa

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n my liver

tekɨ kusan

tekɨ kusan
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kind of seashell

touareka

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n. kind of yam

yasur riar makwapahar

yasur riar makwapahar
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n volcanic eruption