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-ahate

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v rub one’s backside against, wipe one’s ass

-akwmwi

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v suck on, savor (as candy), keep in one’s mouth

-akwsén

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v 1. crumble, break into pieces; divide, rip in half (as bread, biscuit)

-amás

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v intr suckle, nurse

-apwsupus

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

-arakarak

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v/a 1. shake (as a tree); 2. shaky, loose, slack

-arefa

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v cough

-arukwafa

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v bury, conceal, hide

-asoria

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v carry by hanging on an elongated object, carry on a pole, carry on a finger

-ataki

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v 1. prepare, make ready (implies secrecy?); 2. act alone or anti-socially, avoid agreement

Basis

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n harbor, port

fetukwái

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morning star

hawa

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hour

ia-kataring

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v I am listening

(Bislama) mi lisen

ia-kesi-napuai

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I pick a coconut

iaku meia

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kind of turtle

kafete

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n. sleeping mat made of pandanus

kakosia

Todiramphus chloris
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Collared Kingfisher

Example: Photo by JJ Harrison, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

kamkariamkari

Cyrtophora moluccensis https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/120520-Cyrtophora-moluccensis
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Dome Web Spider

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

kanari

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[ganari] vagina

kankapa ramamisa

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he, her, him have a headache

(Bislama) hed blo hem i so.

kapen, kapenkapen

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n cricket

kapkapeki

kapkapeki
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karwarwar

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n. thunder

kesi

To treat ciguatera disease (fish toxin), boil a double handful of the male flower, in  2 liter water, 10-15 min. Drink all at once warm. Drink one pot daily for 2 days. Leaves and flowers to feed pigs. Fruit edible. Slice the green fruit and boil it to make soup or fry it in oil and make a salad. Ripe fruit to make jam.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5101)

Example: To treat ciguatera disease (fish toxin), boil a double handful of the male flower, in 2 liter water, 10-15 min. Drink all at once warm. Drink one pot daily for 2 days. Leaves and flowers to feed pigs. Fruit edible. Slice the green fruit and boil it to make soup or fry it in oil and make a salad. Ripe fruit to make jam.

kisum

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command to dogs (sic)

kofi

kofi
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coffee beans (Bislama)

kuankuanae

Sawn timber. Open ripe seed with stone or hammer, eat nut inside.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5085)

Example: Sawn timber. Open ripe seed with stone or hammer, eat nut inside.

kuanuiru

Tools: The roots of this plant are used as a rope to fasten pig’s feet during the kastom ceremony. Landscape: This tree is planted as a shelter tree. Hunting: Pidgeons are known to eat the fruits of this tree. When hunters desire these birds, they will gather near to this tree. Fuel: The dried wood of this tree is used as a firewood.
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[kwanwi:ru] n. well branched tree, 10 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3036)

Example: Tools: The roots of this plant are used as a rope to fasten pig’s feet during the kastom ceremony. Landscape: This tree is planted as a shelter tree. Hunting: Pidgeons are known to eat the fruits of this tree. When hunters desire these birds, they will gather near to this tree. Fuel: The dried wood of this tree is used as a firewood.

kurapu

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n snapper fish

kurun

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n. a type of banana, often roasted on fires at the beach

kurɨgen

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n scorpion fish

kwanaroti

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club, with serrated edges

kwaniapwít

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n. 1. seedpod of niapwit, 2. glue, tree sap, sticky substances, 3. tag (children’s game)

kwankwún

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n. kind of banana with small fruit

kwanɨmɨk

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n. kind of plant (ginger?)

kwanɨtara

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n. semi-inalienable strip of coconut frond used as a rope

kwanɨtán

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n. nutmeg

kwatasɨn

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roots of pandanus

kwateriu

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

kwekao

Gehyra oceanica https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/101304-Gehyra-oceanica
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Pacific Dtella

Example: via inaturalist.org

kwenakwa

Ptilinopus greyii
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Red-bellied Fruit Dove

kɨsumwi

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n barn owl (Tyto alba)

magko

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n. mango

(Bislama) magko

makopu

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n. kind of breadfruit tree

minit

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minute

nafara

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kind of pandanus

Example: The green leaves are used to weave mats, baskets and hats. The stem is used for making houseposts and also burned as firewood. The ripe fruits are cut open and the seeds are removed and eaten—they taste like coconut and are eaten fresh

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n. noun

nakamako

Fruits are edible, ripe, break open with hammer and eat seeds fresh. Stems for house posts. Stems for carving.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5162)

Example: Fruits are edible, ripe, break open with hammer and eat seeds fresh. Stems for house posts. Stems for carving.

nanɨmek

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n my eye

napua

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n. a poison tree, has orange and white flowers, you must wash hands if you touch it

napɨti

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n. kind of tree

nari aprumun

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wild animal

nari neis

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two days ago

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

neai

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sky, heavens

neik

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n. Coleus sp.

neimeiraer

Leaf used to thatch house. Chew base of stem as sugar cane - it’s sweet.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5088)

Example: Leaf used to thatch house. Chew base of stem as sugar cane - it’s sweet.

nevau

Weave bark fiber to make slings, grass skirt for ladies, hats and baskets. To do this, rett outer bark in sea for 1 week to rot everything but the fiber, take remaining fiber, dry in sun and use as a fiber for weaving.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5114)

Example: Weave bark fiber to make slings, grass skirt for ladies, hats and baskets. To do this, rett outer bark in sea for 1 week to rot everything but the fiber, take remaining fiber, dry in sun and use as a fiber for weaving.

niar

Wood is strong and good to make houses with, particuarly house posts. Also good for firewood.
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n. tree to 30 m, dbh 2 m (collection: Michael J. Balick #4738)

Example: Wood is strong and good to make houses with, particuarly house posts. Also good for firewood.

nipakau

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n. lower part of coconut leaf stem

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.

nipirey

Collect young leaves and boil in water or fry it and eat as a cabbage. To cover fish for cooking, take petiole with many leaves and bend to cover fish and put in sauce pan. When cooked eat fish and leaves.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5017)

Example: Collect young leaves and boil in water or fry it and eat as a cabbage. To cover fish for cooking, take petiole with many leaves and bend to cover fish and put in sauce pan. When cooked eat fish and leaves.

nkirkiri

nkirkiri
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blue coral

nova

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n. Malay apple, (Syzygium malaccensis)

(Bislama) nakafika

Numuwian

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n tremor

nuvivi nig

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n. wild cane leaf stem

nuvivi-

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n. inalienable stems with leaves of plants such as cane or banana

nákumwhe-

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n. inalienable fruit stalk and fruit (of coconut, Barringtonia edulis)

nɨgak

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n my gums (of mouth)

nɨkava auar

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n. ordinary kava

nɨkwaruvinari

nɨkwaruvinari
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kind of fish hook

nɨpun

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fish net

nɨpɨkɨr

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beach

nɨre

nɨre
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n. ginger, used in cooking and in tea, used medicinally in tea to clear lungs and throat phlegm

pakau

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barracuda

paru

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n swordfish

pawpawuk

Cepora perimale https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/368130-Cepora-perimale
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Caper Gull

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

penesu

Hipposcarus longiceps http://fishbase.org/summary/Hipposcarus-longiceps.html
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Pacific longnose parrotfish

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

penesu

Scarus schlegeli http://fishbase.org/summary/Scarus-schlegeli.html
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Yellowband parrotfish

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

pesu

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South (cardinal direction)

puka kakitov

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n. black pig

rarai

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v cut

(Bislama) katem

Example: cut hood, or something

rerin

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always

rewhɨk

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n my canine tooth

ruareng

To treat constipation, squeeze a handful of leaves into a half cup of room temperature water, and 10 minutes later the bowel will move. It is said to taste nasty.
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n. shrub, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3155)

Example: To treat constipation, squeeze a handful of leaves into a half cup of room temperature water, and 10 minutes later the bowel will move. It is said to taste nasty.

Rukwinao-ia-nɨrak

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n my glottis

serwok

Melanoides tuberculata https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/209144-Melanoides-tuberculata
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Red-rimmed Melania

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

suatouk sei nimarim

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n path joining village with nakamal

suatuk

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exchange relation, exchange road

trimian

People use this plant to soften the hair, by taking the roots and stem, pounding them with a stone, and squeezing the juice into the hair--it is said to make it very soft.
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[trajmijen] n. liana growing in disturbed forest area along kwataren kastom road. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3096)

Example: People use this plant to soften the hair, by taking the roots and stem, pounding them with a stone, and squeezing the juice into the hair--it is said to make it very soft.

Tukosmera

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Mountain

tukraus

Stem used to plant kava (use it like a spade) but even when you have a spade, you should still use this to dig the hole. The leaf is used to make laplap, a food made from taro or yam with coconut and other foods added. Take the leaf and wrap the laplap and then roast the package on the fire or cook the leaf in a pot of water.
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[təkrowus] n. once-branched tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3139)

Example: Stem used to plant kava (use it like a spade) but even when you have a spade, you should still use this to dig the hole. The leaf is used to make laplap, a food made from taro or yam with coconut and other foods added. Take the leaf and wrap the laplap and then roast the package on the fire or cook the leaf in a pot of water.

turaimien

Peel stem and chop pieces of stem and pieces of stem of Pipturus argenteus (MB 5121), add fresh water, squeeze in hair, rub head in one direction, do this for one month then hair will turn blond color (for Toka dance) and will also help dreadlocks.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5122)

Example: Peel stem and chop pieces of stem and pieces of stem of Pipturus argenteus (MB 5121), add fresh water, squeeze in hair, rub head in one direction, do this for one month then hair will turn blond color (for Toka dance) and will also help dreadlocks.

táhapwar

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plant with large banana-like leaves used to wrap for baking laplap, taro, fish (Heliconia sp.)

tɨfra

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whale species

tɨni pawpawuk

tɨni pawpawuk
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n cocoon

warakou pirei

Taeniura lymma http://fishbase.org/summary/Taeniura-lymma.html
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Ribbontail stingray

Example: Photo by zsispeo, License: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr

yakapri

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I sleep

(Bislama) mi silip

yapha

Naso unicornis http://fishbase.org/summary/Naso-unicornis.html
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Bluespine unicornfish