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-ahakw(i)

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v 1. rub, rub off, scrub, clean by scrubbing, wash; 2. rub against

-akwahakwéin

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v give birth to, bear (a child)

-akwmhera

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v snack on, eat (coconut wrapped in fig leaves, for example)

-anái

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v fish (in a group with nets)

-apwsupus

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v intr 1. explore, go off into the unknown, search; 2. be confused, worried

-arap(i)

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v knead, mx by hand, grope

-arɨs

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v intr laugh

-uiri

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adj. woody, tough, fibrous (as a yam or taro)

akumani puka

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feed pig

atiamtɨr

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v. to make twine, by twirling between the fingers

fakók

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n. Tahitian chestnut

fwaga

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1. light colored volcanic stone used as a whetstone for sharpening knives, 2. big man, wise man

ia-kayawii

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I am fishing with a canoe or boat...

ianɨr

Chanos chanos http://fishbase.org/summary/Chanos-chanos.html
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Milkfish

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

iapruhu

iapruhu
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kind of crab

ieri

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cousin (mother’s brother’s child)

karukwau

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n. interior house cross post

kasasi

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n my spine

kasen

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a children’s game

katata

katata
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wooden bench

kayap

Zosterops splendidus
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Ranongga White Eye

kiri

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bat (flying fox)

kiriot

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large, black supernatural fowl which crows at the end of the day

konquaequae

Young plants for roof rafters, larger plants used for house posts. Women who get pregnant with someone else besides husband use this to abort. Boil a double handful of scraped stem in water and drink 1 cup four times daily to abort. Fruits are edible. Cut it open and eat what’s inside.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5036)

Example: Young plants for roof rafters, larger plants used for house posts. Women who get pregnant with someone else besides husband use this to abort. Boil a double handful of scraped stem in water and drink 1 cup four times daily to abort. Fruits are edible. Cut it open and eat what’s inside.

kopwa

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n. kind of tree used for fence posts

kova

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baby

kovarerou

Bodianus loxozonus http://fishbase.org/summary/Bodianus-loxozonus.html
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Splitlevel hogfish, blackbelt hogfish

Example: Photo by Ian Shaw / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

krirɨm kahar

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num eight

kuanasenash

For the kastom ceremonies, this can provide the face paint color yellow. Cut open the ripe fruit and paint directly with this. Prior to artificial colors, people used this for yellow and Bixa orellana for red to paint faces and skin.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5166)

Example: For the kastom ceremonies, this can provide the face paint color yellow. Cut open the ripe fruit and paint directly with this. Prior to artificial colors, people used this for yellow and Bixa orellana for red to paint faces and skin.

kwanatan

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n. interior house radial long post

kwanei awou

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grass skirt plant, sea soaked

kwanpenhɨ-

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chest

kwatuku-

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n. inalienable sprout, shoot, small branch

kɨkir

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coconut husking stave set in ground

mainop

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n. leaf

makhum

Scarus rivulatus http://fishbase.org/summary/Scarus-rivulatus.html
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Rivulated parrotfish, surf parrotfish

Example: Photo by Rick Stuart-Smith / Reef Life Survey, License: CC BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

makwa wi

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n new moon (moon phase)

mantoapsan

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kind of cassava, a very productive variety

mapwár ~ iapwár

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mythological pygmy

marawta

Sargocentron tiereoides http://fishbase.org/summary/Sargocentron-tiereoides.html
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Pink squirrelfish

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

mariveia

Siganus vulpinus http://fishbase.org/summary/Siganus-vulpinus.html
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Foxface

Example: Photo by Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

meri-ruta

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n sunrise

minin

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surgeonfish, small with curly pattern

murup

Falco peregrinus
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Peregrine falcon

mwɨramwɨra

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ant

nakaw ia nirak

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n my rib

namakahak

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dawn

namari

Planted for shade near a village or near houses. Shade tree.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5084)

Example: Planted for shade near a village or near houses. Shade tree.

narami yasur

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n lava flow

nare

Photo by Martial Wahe
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n. taro (Colocasia)

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

nari-noien

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n. something to do

nariram

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n. kind of banana

narisien

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n. to laugh

naurapag

1. The fruits are eaten by flying foxes. 2. Dried wood are used as torches, and are considered long-lasting.
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n. well branched tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4249)

Example: 1. The fruits are eaten by flying foxes. 2. Dried wood are used as torches, and are considered long-lasting.

naván

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n. kind of tree used for house posts

nawes

When the fruit is ripe, it is put in a pot with water. Fill half of a large bag (2 liters) with fruit, add this to 2 liters of water and macerate the fruit in the water. Drink 2 cups/day of this extract, morning and afternoon, for one week to make skin oily when it is too dry. This is necessary, for example, when a person drinks too much kava and thir skin dries out. Eat young fruits as a protection from someone who wants to do you harm. It is said that the fruit has 10 eyes, and can watch after you. Cover fish with leaves to cook in a fire. Crush and boil pieces of the stem and leaves and
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5091)

Example: When the fruit is ripe, it is put in a pot with water. Fill half of a large bag (2 liters) with fruit, add this to 2 liters of water and macerate the fruit in the water. Drink 2 cups/day of this extract, morning and afternoon, for one week to make skin oily when it is too dry. This is necessary, for example, when a person drinks too much kava and thir skin dries out. Eat young fruits as a protection from someone who wants to do you harm. It is said that the fruit has 10 eyes, and can watch after you. Cover fish with leaves to cook in a fire. Crush and boil pieces of the stem and leaves and

nekava kava

Hunting: Flying foxes are attracted to this plant for their red fruits. As a result, hunters gather around this plant when they desire to hunt the flying fox.
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n. liana growing on trunk of hedycarya dorstenioides, in dense forest along ridge. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3004)

Example: Hunting: Flying foxes are attracted to this plant for their red fruits. As a result, hunters gather around this plant when they desire to hunt the flying fox.

nekeskes-apran

Asplenium cf. caudatum
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[nakəskəs apran] n. small fern growing on decaying log in dense forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3121)

nig

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n. 1. wild cane, 2. arrow shaft

nima

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n. leaf

nima pupuo

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n. round house

nimai

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n. garden

nipar

Wood is very hard and good for making canoe. Wood is good to build house (house posts). Takes seeds from dried fruit, break them open,  boil in water and collect oil that rises to the top. This oil used as massage oil. Rub oil from dried seeds in hair to kill lice.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5082)

Example: Wood is very hard and good for making canoe. Wood is good to build house (house posts). Takes seeds from dried fruit, break them open, boil in water and collect oil that rises to the top. This oil used as massage oil. Rub oil from dried seeds in hair to kill lice.

nitei

nitei
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fishing spear, three pronged

nkawahai-rea

Straight stem used for spear shaft
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n. small tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3132)

Example: Straight stem used for spear shaft

nueikar pitov

nueikar pitov
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n. canarium nut fruit

numrhi iesukw

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n. fur of mouse or rat

nurha

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n. 1. kind of tree, 2. bark container used to wrap baked food

nuvivi nig

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n. wild cane leaf stem

nɨkiskis

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n. mistletoe

nɨkwaruvinari

nɨkwaruvinari
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kind of fish hook

nɨmatagi

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air

nɨmhiro

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n. kind of tree used for house posts

nɨmrekɨn

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n. kind of fern, can be used to clean kava root

nɨpɨg

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hole, burrow, cave

nɨsori

Cut branches, dry in the sun until the leaves fall out,and then  tie branches together to make broom. Stem used for canoe outrigger.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5145)

Example: Cut branches, dry in the sun until the leaves fall out,and then tie branches together to make broom. Stem used for canoe outrigger.

nɨvír

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n. kind of liana

pagaivii

Cheilinus chlorourus http://fishbase.org/summary/Cheilinus-chlorourus.html
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Floral wrasse

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

pan

Egretta sacra
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Pacific Reef Heron (dark)

Example: Photo by Arthur Chapman, License: CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr

parangi akwes

Acanthurus dussumieri http://fishbase.org/summary/Acanthurus-dussumieri.html
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Eyestripe surgeonfish

Example: Photo by Ian Shaw / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

pasua

Tridacna squamosa https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/50591-Tridacna-squamosa
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Fluted Giant Clam

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

penesu

Scarus tricolor http://fishbase.org/summary/Scarus-tricolor.html
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Tricolour parrotfish

Example: Photo by Bernard Dupont / Flickr, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

phumha pitew

Pterocaesio tile http://fishbase.org/summary/Pterocaesio-tile.html
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Dark-banded fusilier, bluestreak fusilier

Example: Photo by Ian Shaw / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

pugaifi

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kind of fish

puka purumun

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wild pig

purɨk

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cow

ramasan ia naruvaruv

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good afternoon

rewhɨk

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n my molar (tooth)

rinak

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my mum, my mother

ring

The hard stem is used for house posts. To protect food in the earth oven from burning, use the peeled bark in large pieces to either wrap around banana leaves or as an extra layer.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5022)

Example: The hard stem is used for house posts. To protect food in the earth oven from burning, use the peeled bark in large pieces to either wrap around banana leaves or as an extra layer.

suoruenhi

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my bag

taktak

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duck

tapatou

Sphyraena obtusata http://fishbase.org/summary/Sphyraena-obtusata.html
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Yellowtail barracuda

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

tihí

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n. inalienable flower

tui-tui

The leaves of this plant are used to cover the hot stone ovens when cooking lap-lap. The ripe fruit is used to burn as a lap. Take the seeds, impale on the fiber in the middle of a coconut leaf pinnae and light, holding the slender stick and lighting a person’s way.
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[twitwi] n. shrub, 2-3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3085)

Example: The leaves of this plant are used to cover the hot stone ovens when cooking lap-lap. The ripe fruit is used to burn as a lap. Take the seeds, impale on the fiber in the middle of a coconut leaf pinnae and light, holding the slender stick and lighting a person’s way.

tuitúi

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n. castor bean tree

tɨfra

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whale species

whilpara

whilpara
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wheelbarrow

yesu

Parupeneus heptacanthus http://fishbase.org/summary/Parupeneus-heptacanthus.html
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Cinnabar goatfish

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

yesu

Parupeneus cyclostomus http://fishbase.org/summary/Parupeneus-cyclostomus.html
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Gold-saddle goatfish

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