-akei
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1. play with, make faces at, coo at (a child); 2. welcome, greet; 3. ask something of, beg something from
Speaker: Martial wahe
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-akɨk
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1. slide on, slip, strip off (as leaves); clean (as kava with coconut fibre), clear away debris, clear one’s throat; 3. sober up (from alcohol or kava) by clearing one’s throat with food or water; 4. massage
Speaker: Martial wahe
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karorat
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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.
Scientific name: Momordica charantia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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karsapag
karuarewa
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kind of breadfruit, produces small round fruits with small projections (described as small needles) on the outside of the fruit. The tree is very tall
Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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karuarua
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sparsely branched tree, 7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3044)
Example: Ceremonial: During a large kastom ceremony ("Nakwyari"), a branch of this plant is used to sweep the nakamal before the toka dance.
Scientific name: Meryta neo-ebudica, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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kayap
keraha
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tree, 10 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3151)
Example: The bark of this tree has a strong smell, and people macerate it and use it to bath. It is said to perfume the body, particularly after hard work. People use it to cover all of their body. A piece of the bark can be put with a person’s clothing to add a nice smell.
Scientific name: Cryptocarya turbinata, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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konianaker
konuwak pitew
kuankuanae
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5085)
Example: Sawn timber. Open ripe seed with stone or hammer, eat nut inside.
Scientific name: Terminalia catappa, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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kwanare-yaku
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kind of taro, has reddish-white flesh
Example: Good for cooking and making lap-lap
Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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kwani kumɨn
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5149)
Example: Used to paint face for kastom ceremony before other colors were available from store--original color.
Scientific name: Bixa orellana, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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mai-nɨfara
makhum
makhum
nakoka
nameyo
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kinds of yam. There are sub-varieties of this that produce tubers with either red or white flesh
Example: Only used for making lap-lap for kastom ceremonies
Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar
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napuer
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plant (to be identified)
Example: Photo by Martial Wahe
Scientific name: Psychotria milnei, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nasiaben
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tree, 7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3159)
Scientific name: Melicope latifolia, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nekira
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5060)
Example: Kastom medicine to ascertain the type of sickness a person has. Take two small 6 in. long branches with leaves, and place this on the person along with another unspecified plant. Will help diagnosis.
Scientific name: Breynia disticha, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nikinapwes
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5032)
Example: To treat anemia, known as low blood, take a double handful of leaves, squeeze into 1 cup water, and drink 1 cup daily 5 days. Leaves also fed to pigs to help them grow faster.
Scientific name: Acalypha grandis, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nipina
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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.
Scientific name: Dysoxylum aneityense, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nisei
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5031)
Example: For Kastom ceremonies, use this plant to decorate the roots of Kava that is given to a chief. Also used in women’s grass skirt for kastom dance. When young girls are getting their first period (menustration), they wear a grass skirt from this plant to be fragrant (in order to cover any blood smell).
Scientific name: Euodia hortensis, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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niséi
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aromatic shrub (Evodia?), the leaves of which men and women wear during ceremonial events
Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nkhaourakou
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5083)
Example: Wood is hard, making it good for canoe making. Also used to make the stick that holds outrigger to canoe (Nikiavet).
Scientific name: Vitex trifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nukwaskwas
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terrestrial; leaves 1.0-1.5 m long. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2626)
Scientific name: Hypolepis elegans, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nusua
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kind of yam, produces a tuber with a white flesh and red skin. It is easy to grow
Example: Soft when cooked
Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar
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pagaivii phisir sarapiran
pawpawuk
pawpawuk pitew
pranawhi sei piak sa namritaik
rerenakuang
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herb growing on roadside along coast road. Flowers yellow. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3166)
Example: Children are said to chew the branches of this plant to give them a "bigger (stronger) voice.
Scientific name: Sonchus oleraceus, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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ros
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shrub to 1 m tall, flowers red. Ornamental plant in homestead garden. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4735)
Example: Ornamental plant
Scientific name: Rosa chinensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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temɨn
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canoe parts: outrigger float (also denotes people who live close to the sea, as opposed to people who live inland)
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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Yapkapin
yesu
yéung