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-akwakwus

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v hang onto, perch (as a bat), hang up (as a kerosene lantern)

-akwmare

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adj. ripe (as fruit), well cooked

-amwhén

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v/a 1. equal, the same, similar; 2. enough, sufficient, acceptable, fitting; 3. desirous of, needful of

-apwɨkɨr

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v 1. roll, push; 2. rattle (as a can full of small rocks)

-apɨna

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v spread, spread out

-arukwasikar

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v intr be or sit in the sun

-arɨgi

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v scrub, manipulate

-asaku

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v roll, roll about

-ataka

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v flee, become a refugee

-ataki

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

-ateti

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v connect, bring together (as two fire logs), box (as two men)

-árɨgɨn

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v fill, stuff (as tobacco into a pipe), insert (as food into a bamboo section to bake)

agero

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angel

araii narek

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cut my penis( circumsision)

aruwai nuk

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pilled yam (skin out)

ewhan vei sipan

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v go away

(Bislama) go lo we

ia karpesu nima

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I build a house

(Bislama) mi stap workem aos.

ia-karai rangek

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v I cut my hand

iaku

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turtle

kahar

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num three

kaies

kaies
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n. rake

Kamukuwa

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n buttocks

kapajiko

Lutjanus fulviflamma http://fishbase.org/summary/Lutjanus-fulviflamma.html
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Dory snapper

Example: Photo by Andrew J. Green / Reef life Survey, License: CC-BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

kapen

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cricket

kareng reng

Gerres erythrourus http://fishbase.org/summary/Gerres-erythrourus.html
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Deep-bodied silver-biddy

Example: Photo by Rick Winterbottom / FishWise Professional, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

katiaitukros

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kind of sugarcane

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

ken

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section of house thatching

kera

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skull

kipori ia tasiapen

Phyllidia picta https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/207581-Phyllidia-picta
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Painted Phyllidia

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

kiriot

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

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.

kotawɨr ienepek

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n. banyan tree bow string

kotuai

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grating board for coconut

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.

kwanari

kwanari
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n. flower lei

kwaruviru

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n. kind of banyan tree (var. of ruviru)

kwatpiavikɨr

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n. kind of sugarcane

kwonhim

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[ganhɨm] your penis

mafe

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planet name

mak inherɨp

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kind of ground dove

Makwa

Makwa
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n waxing gibbous (moon phase)

makwa wi

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n new moon (moon phase)

makwa-ruweiwe

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n moonset

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

maniato

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n. manioc (var. of manto)

mɨtiro

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kind of fish

nakur

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n. plant (to be identified)

(Bislama) nalalas

nakur

Agricultural: When this plant is in flower, it is said that taro (Nerei) and Ipomoea (Kwarei) are ready to plant.
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[nakur] n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2973)

Example: Agricultural: When this plant is in flower, it is said that taro (Nerei) and Ipomoea (Kwarei) are ready to plant.

nakur

This plant is used as a medicine for throat infections. Take 2, 2" pieces of the leaf, chew and swallow the juice, spit out the fibers, 3x daily, for as long as the throat hurts.
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[nakur] n. sparsely branched tree, 5-6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3088)

Example: This plant is used as a medicine for throat infections. Take 2, 2" pieces of the leaf, chew and swallow the juice, spit out the fibers, 3x daily, for as long as the throat hurts.

nakéiv

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n. kind of banana

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.

namian

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n urine

namiraou

The wood is used to make house posts, it is said to be very hard. It is also burned for firewood.
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[nami̤rou] n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3074)

Example: The wood is used to make house posts, it is said to be very hard. It is also burned for firewood.

namɨr

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kind of cycad (?)

Example: To make a tabu sign for your land, crops or to block access to the sea, meaning that this area is blocked from fishing and diving, cross two of the leaves in an “X” shape and stick in the soil or sand. People will know to stay away

napugen

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n. fruit (in general)

napurien

napurien
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play, game

nari

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n thing, object, being

naurám

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n. kind of wild yam

nekaritang

Used to trap birds. Cut the stem of this plant and collect the sap. Take a small vine locally known as Nanupi, and roll the vine into a ball, infuse it with white latex which then turns brown, put it in a papaya or banana tree--when a bird comes to feed on the fruit of those trees, it gets stuck to the ball and can’t leave. This is good for harvesting small birds to be eaten.
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n. tree, growing in disturbed forest/garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3107)

Example: Used to trap birds. Cut the stem of this plant and collect the sap. Take a small vine locally known as Nanupi, and roll the vine into a ball, infuse it with white latex which then turns brown, put it in a papaya or banana tree--when a bird comes to feed on the fruit of those trees, it gets stuck to the ball and can’t leave. This is good for harvesting small birds to be eaten.

nekeinap

When people chew the kava root for processing, they spit it on this leaf. It is sort of a magic leaf for picking up a person--put 4 leaves together, 2 per side and then lift the person up.
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n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3248)

Example: When people chew the kava root for processing, they spit it on this leaf. It is sort of a magic leaf for picking up a person--put 4 leaves together, 2 per side and then lift the person up.

nekethirau

Remove base from flower and chew flower--tastes sweet. Long ago there were no pens, you could use this flower to write message on wood.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5138)

Example: Remove base from flower and chew flower--tastes sweet. Long ago there were no pens, you could use this flower to write message on wood.

nerer

Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Fish Poison: To help catch fish, a bundle of leaves are squeezed and placed in a stream. After some time, the fish appear stunned and are caught.
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[narɨr] n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2972)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Fish Poison: To help catch fish, a bundle of leaves are squeezed and placed in a stream. After some time, the fish appear stunned and are caught.

niknapus

Acalypha wilkesiana
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n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3078)

nikwanaha

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n. fruit of nikwa

nimakwinari

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n. medicinal leaves, used to feed pigs to make them grow big, or for male erection

ning

When thatching a house, put the coconut leaves on the crossbars, and then push the stem of this plant into the coconut leaves and bend them over to hold the coconut leaves. Use the stems of this plant as a support for yam vines. Use the stem to make arrows.
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[niŋ] n. large grass, growing in disturbed forest/garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3104)

Example: When thatching a house, put the coconut leaves on the crossbars, and then push the stem of this plant into the coconut leaves and bend them over to hold the coconut leaves. Use the stems of this plant as a support for yam vines. Use the stem to make arrows.

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 ...
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[nisi apram] 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 ...

nitéi

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n. 1. spear, 2. kind of tree

nua popo

When a person is stung by a jellyfish, take 5-6 leaves and whip the sore for 5-10 minutes and this will reduce the soreness of the wound.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5158)

Example: When a person is stung by a jellyfish, take 5-6 leaves and whip the sore for 5-10 minutes and this will reduce the soreness of the wound.

nuapupu

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n. kind of beach vine

nui ramapor

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spring of water

nui rametum

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pond of water

nukwanei menu

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exchange of birds

Numuwian

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n tremor

nurak

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n my shoulder

nwera

nwera
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n. stage 7 of coconut development, sprouting coconut.

nɨfaga

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coconut leaf sheath fibre

nɨfua

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digging stick

nɨhi yesur

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[nɨhi yesur] riverbed

nɨkava itoga

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alcoholic drink

nɨmwa asori

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big fish

nɨpɨk rerin

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n. kind of banyan tree with large leaves and fruit

nɨpɨn akwas

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n. period of the year preceding the yam harvest (October through March)

pameta

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n. kind of reddish coconut

pavɨsi

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kind of coconut which is long and narrow

pawpawuk

Thyas coronata https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/121948-Thyas-coronata
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t.o. Owlet Moth

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

pawpawuk

Vagrans egista https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/244221-Vagrans-egista
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Tailed Rustic

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piak narmitaik

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my elder brother

punwar

punwar
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n. tree that has seed pods (to be identified)

purɨk

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cow

pɨpɨg

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n. kind of Tahitian chestnut

rewhi-yaknawhi

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n my baby teeth (deciduous teeth)

takarouik i kami

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I fight you, you gonna pee

(Bislama) bae mi faetem you bae you pispis.

takarouik i kawiaha

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I fight you, you gonna shit

(Bislama) by mi faetem you by yu sisit.

tera

Leaf used to cover boils on skin. Mash leaf slightly and cover bol. Leaf pulls out liquid from boil. Use this for 3 days, changing the leaf 2x daily. Young plants (branch) for toothache to reduce pain. Boil in water and wash painful area. Use as needed until pain subsides. Also can collect insects in dried stems and use these to feed chickens. (Hymenoptera).
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5152)

Example: Leaf used to cover boils on skin. Mash leaf slightly and cover bol. Leaf pulls out liquid from boil. Use this for 3 days, changing the leaf 2x daily. Young plants (branch) for toothache to reduce pain. Boil in water and wash painful area. Use as needed until pain subsides. Also can collect insects in dried stems and use these to feed chickens. (Hymenoptera).

toupar toupar

Flower for decorating things like at marriage, church, opening of new building like dispensary. Ancient people, when needed water, take stem, mash 4-6 pieces and squeeze into coconut shell and drink it. So squeeze the stems together after mashing them along their entire length with wood post. This can be used to collect water today when a person is in the forest and thirsty. Leaves wrap banana laplap. Put in saucepan boil 20 minutes, toss out water, take leaf off and eat laplap. Leaf folded not tied. People say its native to Vanuatu
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5132)

Example: Flower for decorating things like at marriage, church, opening of new building like dispensary. Ancient people, when needed water, take stem, mash 4-6 pieces and squeeze into coconut shell and drink it. So squeeze the stems together after mashing them along their entire length with wood post. This can be used to collect water today when a person is in the forest and thirsty. Leaves wrap banana laplap. Put in saucepan boil 20 minutes, toss out water, take leaf off and eat laplap. Leaf folded not tied. People say its native to Vanuatu

tukrawhus

Photo by Martial Wahe
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n. type of woody, flowering plant

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

tumien

Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood.
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[tʰãmijen] n. small tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2984)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood.

yakwapenun

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