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-akoui

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v 1. curve, twist, make crooked, stretch, fold (as banana leaves for a hat), fold back on; 2. divert, influence, cause someone or thing to act correctly or wrongly, discipline, drive or lead astray, drive before one (as a cow), chase

-amtiv

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v intr smack lips (as to call a dog)

-apɨna

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v spread, spread out

-aragavus

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v spit

-arari

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v 1. rotate, turn in circles, turn aside, turn (something) around; 2. turn around at (a place)

-arefa

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v cough

-arfái

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v drop (as a box or stone), let go of

-aruagɨn

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v intr make war, fight (as local groups)

-arukwakwus

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v hang, hang up, tie up

-asevur

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v 1. open (as a door), open up (as a trunk or other closed object); 2. clear or empty out (as dirt from a hole), reveal

-atia(i)

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v 1. grate (tubers); 2. treat with traditional medicine (by spitting grated or masticated ingredients on the patient’s head)

apɨrhi

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v. to clean brush, sweep or weed a garden, to clean for preparation, like kava

arukwinhum

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v. to wear a penis wrapper

atia ~ atiai

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v. 1. to grate tubers, 2. treat with traditional medicine by spitting grated or masticated ingredients on the patient’s head

atiamtɨr

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v. to make twine, by twirling between the fingers

gongong

Leiognathus fasciatus, Aurigequula fasciatus http://fishbase.org/summary/Leiognathus-fasciatus.html
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Striped ponyfish

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

ia -kawani nerei

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I cooked taro

(Bislama) mi kukum taro

ia-kavaki vei nimafaki

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v I pray at the church

(Bislama) mi pray lo churche aos

Ianuwao Point

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iérupwun

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caterpillar, millipede

kaharkahár

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type of three pronged fish spear-head

kamkariamkari

Nephila pilipes https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/68390-Nephila-pilipes
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Giant Golden Orbweaver

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

kapnumnum

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n. mushroom

kapuapu

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[kapuapu] n. green salamander

kapuapu

1. When in flower, it is s a good time to hunt swefa, a type of sea mollusc.
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n. sapling, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4235)

Example: 1. When in flower, it is s a good time to hunt swefa, a type of sea mollusc.

kareia

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kind of shellfish

kasimi

Tyto javanica delicatula
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Eastern Barn Owl

Example: Photo by Christopher Watson, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

kasoso

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[kasoso] small devil

katia

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n. kind of taro

kawir

Acridotheres tristis
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Common Myna

Example: Photos by Byron Chin / Flickr, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Flickr

kawireng

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kind of plantain

Example: Used for cooking and lap-lap

kijiramak ~ katou

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his sister, my sister

kipori ia tasiapen

Phyllidia madangensis https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/784726-Phyllidia-madangensis
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t.o. Sea Slug

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

kirikapóu

Collocalia esculenta
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Glossy Swiftlet

kisup

Charonia tritonis https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/121741-Charonia-tritonis

Triton’s Trumpet

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

konianaker

Epinephelus howlandi http://fishbase.org/summary/Epinephelus-howlandi.html
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Blacksaddle grouper (deep sea)

Example: Photo by J. E. Randall, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

konpir

To tie the wall of a house, strip off leaves and tie fresh to house.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5136)

Example: To tie the wall of a house, strip off leaves and tie fresh to house.

koutuai

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traditional spoon

kuansus

Sterculia banksiana
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5165)

kupan

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beginning

kuri

kuri
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dog

kurɨgen

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n scorpion fish

kutpor ia nirak

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n my testicle

kwaraterei pisir

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n comet

kwarukwau

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n house component (horizontal poles holding up roof frame)

kwánmɨrhi

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n. orange (fruit)

makwa

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n. moon

manuri

Fishing poles. House walls. Fence for chickens.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5125)

Example: Fishing poles. House walls. Fence for chickens.

menu

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bird

naiwan

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kind of taro, has yellow flesh

Example: Good for roasting

namakahak

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dawn

namatamai

Lethrinus amboinensis http://fishbase.org/summary/Lethrinus-amboinensis.html
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Ambon emperor

Example: Photo by FAO / Fishbase, License: CC BY-NC 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

Namhinian

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gathering

(Bislama) meeting

namirau

Construction: The wood of this tree is strong and considered a choice wood for house construction. Fuel: The wood of this tree is used as an excellent firewood.
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[nami̤rew] n. tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3042)

Example: Construction: The wood of this tree is strong and considered a choice wood for house construction. Fuel: The wood of this tree is used as an excellent firewood.

nanimek

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my eyes

napuei mia

napuei mia
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n. dry coconut

napui tɨna

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n. variety of coconut with short trunk

narhuatov

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n. kind of large fern

Nariamaramera

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n my vertebrae

naskou

The wood of this plant is used for an important "kastom" dance known as Toka. The stem is said to have a curve in it. Sam noted that the people dancing get something in return, such as a pig or kava.
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[næskoʊ] n. tree, 2-3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3099)

Example: The wood of this plant is used for an important "kastom" dance known as Toka. The stem is said to have a curve in it. Sam noted that the people dancing get something in return, such as a pig or kava.

natigamera

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

naturan

1. The plant is used entirely to produce grass skirts, known as raus. First the plant is retted in hot water and left to sun dry. Then portions of the plant are sewn together or draped over a waist band to form an ankle-length skirt.
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n. epiphyte. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2624)

Example: 1. The plant is used entirely to produce grass skirts, known as raus. First the plant is retted in hot water and left to sun dry. Then portions of the plant are sewn together or draped over a waist band to form an ankle-length skirt.

nava

Fruits edible when ripe. The stem is used for timber and sawn timber. Flowers attract fruit bats. Hunters, knowing this, hunt the bats at night.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5038)

Example: Fruits edible when ripe. The stem is used for timber and sawn timber. Flowers attract fruit bats. Hunters, knowing this, hunt the bats at night.

nawawa

Agricultural: When in flower, taro (Nerei) is said to be ready for harvest.
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[nəwowa] n. well branched tree, 10 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2983)

Example: Agricultural: When in flower, taro (Nerei) is said to be ready for harvest.

nekeimap

Ceremonial: During kava preparation, chewed kava roots are placed on the green leaves of this plant before extracting. One of many leaves used for this purpose.
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[makeihimap] n. small, sparsely branched shrub (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3033)

Example: Ceremonial: During kava preparation, chewed kava roots are placed on the green leaves of this plant before extracting. One of many leaves used for this purpose.

nekfai

The leaves, fruits and stems of this plant are used as pig food. The leaves are used to wrap lap lap in. Leaves are also used to cover a roof of a house--the top part or ridge.
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n. liana growing up a damaged macaranga dioica tree, growing in open forest heavily impacted by cyclone. flowering spadices green to tannish-yellow. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3241)

Example: The leaves, fruits and stems of this plant are used as pig food. The leaves are used to wrap lap lap in. Leaves are also used to cover a roof of a house--the top part or ridge.

nesen

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n. rain

netwar

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Netwar language, spoken on Tanna Island

nifua

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n. kind of parasitic plant

nimahan

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family

nimigi paha

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n. handle of axe

nimuien

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earthquake

nipina

Take 1 double handful of leaves, mix with dry coconut, roast in fire -- cover w/ banana leaf, tie up roast in fire for 5-10 min, take it down to the sea and the boys who have been circumcised 2 weeks before wash the sore with it. Dries up sore faster and wash skin and adds a fragrance to it. To treat strong fever, take knife and squeeze stem and put shavings on a leaf take 1 handful and mix with water and fill up a cup and pout into 1 bottle -- in morning and afternoon and consume 1 liter/day repeat for second day fever will do down in a few days.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5015)

Example: Take 1 double handful of leaves, mix with dry coconut, roast in fire -- cover w/ banana leaf, tie up roast in fire for 5-10 min, take it down to the sea and the boys who have been circumcised 2 weeks before wash the sore with it. Dries up sore faster and wash skin and adds a fragrance to it. To treat strong fever, take knife and squeeze stem and put shavings on a leaf take 1 handful and mix with water and fill up a cup and pout into 1 bottle -- in morning and afternoon and consume 1 liter/day repeat for second day fever will do down in a few days.

nuas

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[nuas] island cabbage

nui

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water

nukwesi

Young leaves edible, boil with water or cook in coconut milk. Cook fruit in boiling water, then cook in coconut milk. Cook fruits for 6-10 minutes. He was taught this by his grandparents who showed him how to eat wild plants; his grandfather wasa historically significant person in the Port Resolution area, especially in reference to medicine.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5033)

Example: Young leaves edible, boil with water or cook in coconut milk. Cook fruit in boiling water, then cook in coconut milk. Cook fruits for 6-10 minutes. He was taught this by his grandparents who showed him how to eat wild plants; his grandfather wasa historically significant person in the Port Resolution area, especially in reference to medicine.

nur

When young baby is loosing weight, give young tops--cooked-- to mother to eat for one month to help increase milk. You can also scrape a handful of inner bark of Ficus kajewskii (5163) into small pieces with a knife, mix with a handful of the young tops of (5157) in 1L of water and cook it, and squeeze the juice into a bottle. Drink one cup twice daily  for one month to help a mother who is not providing enough milk for her baby. Kids put inflorescences in hair as a sort of rasta fashion.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5157)

Example: When young baby is loosing weight, give young tops--cooked-- to mother to eat for one month to help increase milk. You can also scrape a handful of inner bark of Ficus kajewskii (5163) into small pieces with a knife, mix with a handful of the young tops of (5157) in 1L of water and cook it, and squeeze the juice into a bottle. Drink one cup twice daily for one month to help a mother who is not providing enough milk for her baby. Kids put inflorescences in hair as a sort of rasta fashion.

nɨfeg

Stem to make house posts. Put fruits in with sweet potato when planting to enable the sweet potato to yield a good crop.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5067)

Example: Stem to make house posts. Put fruits in with sweet potato when planting to enable the sweet potato to yield a good crop.

nɨkapnaiva

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n. kind of tree, used in traditional medicine

nɨkava tapuga

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n. kind of kava artificially sprouted at an upper node of a planted cutting (large tapuga are exchanged during circumcision feasts)

nɨkɨrhanekin

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n. traditional medicine, cure for illness caused by Mwatiktiki (culture hero responsible for yam growth)

parangi pitew

Acanthurus blochii http://fishbase.org/summary/Acanthurus-blochii.html
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Ringtail surgeonfish

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

parov

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please, sorry

pesu

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South (cardinal direction)

piawni

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his brother

pirawa ~ firawa

Lethrinus genivittatus http://fishbase.org/summary/Lethrinus-genivittatus.html
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Longspine emperor

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pitoga

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alien (from another island, country)

pusi

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cat

(Bislama) pusi

rehwiir

Acanthurus triostegus http://fishbase.org/summary/Acanthurus-triostegus.html
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Convict surgeonfish, convict tang

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reia

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chicken

rerɨn

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n voice

rigi

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n. part, piece (see ringinimwa)

rinik

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n. mother (my)

taik pani kuau

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n. type of banana, largest kind, used to make laplap

Takakwein

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call someone; laughter

(Bislama) singaot

tata

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father

tɨnamweris

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n island

ume tasiapen

Naso tonganus http://fishbase.org/summary/Naso-tonganus.html
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Bulbnose unicornfish, humpnose unicornfish (deep sea)

Example: Photo by Jean-Lou Justine / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

wipin napiran

Atule mate http://fishbase.org/summary/Atule-mate.html
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Yellowtail Scad (female)

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