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-akeki

v scrape out, spoon out

-amnamɨn

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v shoot (a gun) together; throw (rock or stick) simultaneously

-amwhenumw

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v/a 1. drown, sink; 2. deep, under water

-arupwárupwa

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v intr flap (as a bird its wings)

-arupwíp

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v. stick magically treated wild cane around garden plants

-asaprán

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v intr clear (as the sky), break up (as clouds) dawn

-ákure

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v 1. sit, sit down; 2. be at, exist at

akwakwa

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adj. thirsty

Fira

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Port Vila

Futuna

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Futuna

ia-kakwaii nimaii

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v I brushed the new garden

(Bislama) brasem new garen

ia-karai narouk

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I cut a sugar cane

(Bislama) mi katem sugar can.

iapóu

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absent minded

jarerin

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duck (native)

kamenatwan

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tribal group name

kamiemie

kamiemie
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n. a type of fungus that grows on trees, can be fried and eaten

kamkapa ramamisa

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your headache (pain)

kapa

Photo by John E. Randall, License: CC BY-NC 3.0
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Blackspot snapper

Example: Photo by John E. Randall, License: CC BY-NC 3.0

kaprapra

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n. long basket made of coconut leaves

kareia

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kind of shellfish

karorɨt

Cut open ripe fruit, put red seed in mouth, chew them, then spit out hard seeds left. Ancients used to eat the seeds in this way -- certain people still like it.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5134)

Example: Cut open ripe fruit, put red seed in mouth, chew them, then spit out hard seeds left. Ancients used to eat the seeds in this way -- certain people still like it.

karuarua

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thunder

katata ~ katate

katata ~ katate
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stone seat or wooden bench, often used in the Nakamal, for repose after kava drinking

kawitaring

kawitaring
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keipeipie iasuck

Tricks the rat, sees seeds from bottom, but when climbs herb, can’t see it--so name refers to tricking the rat. If a person drinks too much kava over many years, boil 5-6 whole plant for 15 minutes in water (1.5 L) and put in pot, drink 3 cups, 1x / day for 3 days to detoxify the effects of kava. A person who has drunk too much kava over a long time feels it in the body--weak, hard to wake early, appetite is low, body feels heavy.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5065)

Example: Tricks the rat, sees seeds from bottom, but when climbs herb, can’t see it--so name refers to tricking the rat. If a person drinks too much kava over many years, boil 5-6 whole plant for 15 minutes in water (1.5 L) and put in pot, drink 3 cups, 1x / day for 3 days to detoxify the effects of kava. A person who has drunk too much kava over a long time feels it in the body--weak, hard to wake early, appetite is low, body feels heavy.

kera

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skull

konphar

Lutjanus rivulatus http://fishbase.org/summary/Lutjanus-rivulatus.html
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Blubberlip snapper

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

konuwak arwerew

Cephalopholis leopardus http://fishbase.org/summary/Cephalopholis-leopardus.html
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Leopard hind, leopard grouper (deep sea)

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

konuwak sarariman

Plectorhinchus albovittatus http://fishbase.org/summary/Plectorhinchus-albovittatus.html
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Two-striped sweetlips, giant sweetlips (male)

Example: Photo by Ross D. Robertson / Shorefishes of the Neotropics, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

kouwehew

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kind of shell, with smooth black color

Example: edible shell, boiled in the saucepan or roasted in the fire

kwamera

kwanasuaprana

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n. kind of fungus, brown color when old or white color when young, can be fried and eaten

kwatpi-

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bladder

kwatuku-

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n. inalienable sprout, shoot, small branch

kɨrukɨru

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type of fish spearing arrow with two barbs

manto billy

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kind of cassava, produces a tall plant with small roots

Example: Small roots are roasted in the earth oven or over the fire

maráu

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soldier fish

mwɨtikaro

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worm

nahpao akwes

Pseudobalistes flavimarginatus http://fishbase.org/summary/Pseudobalistes-flavimarginatus.html
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Yellowmargin triggerfish

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

namatamai

Lethrinus obsoletus http://fishbase.org/summary/Lethrinus-obsoletus.html
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Orange-striped emperor

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

namatamai

Lethrinus ornatus http://fishbase.org/summary/Lethrinus-ornatus.html
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Ornate emperor

Example: Photo by Digital Archives of Taiwan / via catalog.digitalarchi License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

namatamai

Lethrinus xanthochilus http://fishbase.org/summary/Lethrinus-xanthochilus.html
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Yellowlip emperor

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

namri nanimek

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n my eye socket

nanen

Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Hunting: Flying foxes and pidgeons are known to eat the fruit of this plant. As a result, hunters will cluster about these trees to hunt these animals.
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[nanim] n. tree, 3-4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2986)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Hunting: Flying foxes and pidgeons are known to eat the fruit of this plant. As a result, hunters will cluster about these trees to hunt these animals.

nangai

Fruits have edible seeds. To prepare, sun dry the fruits, break kernal and roast or boil the nut inside. Is a common food plant. The wood makes good timber. The latex can be collected, put in a tin and then heated over a fire. It turns black and can be used as black paint. It also smells nice when heated.
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[naŋe] n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3141)

Example: Fruits have edible seeds. To prepare, sun dry the fruits, break kernal and roast or boil the nut inside. Is a common food plant. The wood makes good timber. The latex can be collected, put in a tin and then heated over a fire. It turns black and can be used as black paint. It also smells nice when heated.

nanghin

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names

(Bislama) nem blo hem

nanɨs

Poisonous plant. Planted near cultivated garden to kill virus in soil.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5150)

Example: Poisonous plant. Planted near cultivated garden to kill virus in soil.

napoti sarariman

Plectorhinchus flavomaculatus http://fishbase.org/summary/Plectorhinchus-flavomaculatus.html
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Lemonfish, gold-spotted sweetlips (male)

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

napuei

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n. coconut

napuei

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coconut stage, general name for coconut

napugov

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n. palm, Veitchia sp.

napur

Medicine for gonnorhea. Collect two plants and clean their roots, boil whole in 2 liters water, boil 20-40 minutes, drink the mixture hot,  2 cups a day, 3 weeks. This condition presents as a burning in the penis, along with other issues. For heavy cough, take  double handful leaf, boil 10-15 minutes in 1 liter water, 2 cups day warm, for 5 days. Pods used to calm children by shaking as rattle, when they are crying.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5128)

Example: Medicine for gonnorhea. Collect two plants and clean their roots, boil whole in 2 liters water, boil 20-40 minutes, drink the mixture hot, 2 cups a day, 3 weeks. This condition presents as a burning in the penis, along with other issues. For heavy cough, take double handful leaf, boil 10-15 minutes in 1 liter water, 2 cups day warm, for 5 days. Pods used to calm children by shaking as rattle, when they are crying.

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

nariram

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n. kind of banana

natigamera

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n. 1. moss, algae. 2. kind of seaweed

natuan

The wood of this plant smells bad. It is locally called a type of "stink wood." When young children get circumsized in kastom ways, to change the leaves for their bandage, take off the bark of this stem, take the inside part and scrape it--mix a handful of the scrapings with grated coconut, put it together in a leaf, put it on the fire, heat it, when the coconut is browned, squeeze it together to get the "milk"  that is yellow in color. When young children swim in saltwater to dry the cut from the circumcision, squeeze this on that area to help heal it.
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[natuwan] n. large tree, 10-14 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3124)

Example: The wood of this plant smells bad. It is locally called a type of "stink wood." When young children get circumsized in kastom ways, to change the leaves for their bandage, take off the bark of this stem, take the inside part and scrape it--mix a handful of the scrapings with grated coconut, put it together in a leaf, put it on the fire, heat it, when the coconut is browned, squeeze it together to get the "milk" that is yellow in color. When young children swim in saltwater to dry the cut from the circumcision, squeeze this on that area to help heal it.

neai

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sky, heavens

nesen asori

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n. heavy (big) rain

nifua

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n. kind of parasitic plant

nikinapus

A sharpened stick made from this plant is used to take the husk off of coconuts. The wood of this plant is used to make a child’s bow--carve the bark off and bend it with a string made from the banyon (Ficus) tree to both ends of the bow.
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n. shrub, 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3258)

Example: A sharpened stick made from this plant is used to take the husk off of coconuts. The wood of this plant is used to make a child’s bow--carve the bark off and bend it with a string made from the banyon (Ficus) tree to both ends of the bow.

nikiskes

Hunting: Birds are attracted to this plant for their flowers. As a result, hunters gather around this plant when they desire to hunt these birds.
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[nɨkɨskɨs] n. parasitic epiphyte growing on upper branches of fagraea berteroana, in dense forest along ridge. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3012)

Example: Hunting: Birds are attracted to this plant for their flowers. As a result, hunters gather around this plant when they desire to hunt these birds.

nimai

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n. leaves

nipakau

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n. lower part of coconut leaf stem

nisai-apran

The leaves of this plant are used to make a women’s grass skirt. Men use these leaves to put in a band around the arm as decoration. For kastom ceremony, take coconut endosperm, chew with this leave and covery body. It makes the body smell very nice. When a person has a fever, mix this leaf with other leaves including Annona muricata and Citrus species. Then the person sits over a steaming pot and inhales it to reduce the fever and symptoms. If you need to go to a "tabu" place, where the spirit can make you sick, a person can bathe with the leaves of this plant and can go anywh
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n. tree to 3 m, dbh 4 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4727)

Example: The leaves of this plant are used to make a women’s grass skirt. Men use these leaves to put in a band around the arm as decoration. For kastom ceremony, take coconut endosperm, chew with this leave and covery body. It makes the body smell very nice. When a person has a fever, mix this leaf with other leaves including Annona muricata and Citrus species. Then the person sits over a steaming pot and inhales it to reduce the fever and symptoms. If you need to go to a "tabu" place, where the spirit can make you sick, a person can bathe with the leaves of this plant and can go anywh

nisei

Photo by Martial Wahe
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n. shrub, 2.5-3 m tall

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niveia

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n. canoe oar, paddle

nkhaourakou

When a person is growing watermelons, you put a knife in the roots of the watermelon plants, and then cut a stick from this tree and drive it into the roots as well, to ensure greater numbers of watermelons will be grown.
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[nəkora:ku] n. shrub, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3160)

Example: When a person is growing watermelons, you put a knife in the roots of the watermelon plants, and then cut a stick from this tree and drive it into the roots as well, to ensure greater numbers of watermelons will be grown.

nopi

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n. kind of yam, edible, white color

nui

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water

nuk suka

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n. kind of yam (’sugar yam’)

nukwesi

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n. kind of fig tree with edible leaves

nɨkava riki

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n. kind of small kava with variegated leaves

nɨmerian

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n moonbeam

nɨmu awhu

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small fish

nɨmwaktakéiv

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name of a traditional road linking villages in South-East Tanna

nɨre

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

nɨtiro

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kind of fish

paopawǔk ia napɨn

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n moth

pepheer pitew

Plectorhinchus lessonii http://fishbase.org/summary/Plectorhinchus-lessonii.html
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Lesson’s thicklip, stiped sweetlips

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

phumha tasiapen

Caesio teres http://fishbase.org/summary/Caesio-teres.html
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Yellow and blueback fusilier, blue and yellow fusilier (deep sea)

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piav-

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cousin (mother’s sister’s child, father’s brother’s child)

prea-

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cousin (older mother’s sister’s child, older father’s brother’s child)

ramasi

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[ramasi] n. to smoke

ramawisau

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awareness or preaching

Example: awareness of health or church gospel

rɨgkái

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frigate bird?

takarouik i kawiaha

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I fight you, you gonna shit

(Bislama) by mi faetem you by yu sisit.

takiew

Bradybaena similaris https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/215409-Bradybaena-similaris
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Asian Tramp Snail

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tapang ia nusouk matuk

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n my right foot

tarigiaván

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kind of seaweed

tata

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father

tiki napuei

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n. coconut shell (used as bailer or for other purposes)

tikinau ~ talenau

tikinau ~ talenau
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bamboo pan flute

Tukwusmera

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place name: the highest mountain on Tanna Island

tɨnɨrup

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n family, household

uritoga natoga

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wind direction: south-east wind

whilpara

whilpara
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wheelbarrow

wipin napiran

Alectis ciliaris http://fishbase.org/summary/Alectis-ciliaris.html
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African pompano (female)

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yakamapri

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I sleep

yakwapenun

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yerman sei kijirimak sa namritaik

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my elder sisiter;s husband