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-amák

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v intr stay behind, remain, lie down

-araghár

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v spread to dry (in the sun)

-aregi

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v push aside, scoop out (as coconut meat), dig, bulldoze

apɨrhi

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

aspeni

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v eat two things, like meat and taro together rather than only meat

ataring

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you listen

atirap

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v. look down! (imperative)

bijak saranhi

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younger brother

iapwis

iapwis
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cephalopods

iaran

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day

kaiapomus

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a kind of shellfish

kaies

kaies
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n. rake

karasari

karasari
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kind of seashell

kaumeg

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n. coconut which has been shelled leaving intact its meat

kaviameta ~ koiameta

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name of a moiety

kawga ia-nirak

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n my cheek

kesakwesa

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n. kind of breadfruit

keva

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how many? how much?

kieri

Ducula pacifica
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Pacific Imperial Pigeon

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

kipori

kipori
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kind of sea cucumber

kiriot

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

koaba

The fruit of this tree is edible. The stem yields posts for building houses. The wood from the tree is said to be very strong, so larger parts of the tree can be used for house construction. The leaves are used to treat diarrhea. A person chews 4 leaves at a time as long as needed.
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n. tree in house area near village, 5 m tall (collection: Michael J. Balick #4720)

Example: The fruit of this tree is edible. The stem yields posts for building houses. The wood from the tree is said to be very strong, so larger parts of the tree can be used for house construction. The leaves are used to treat diarrhea. A person chews 4 leaves at a time as long as needed.

konianaker

Epinephelus miliaris http://fishbase.org/summary/Epinephelus-miliaris.html
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Netfin grouper (deep sea)

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

kopwa

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fence

korkwao tanna

Oceanodroma matsudaira
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Matsudaira’s Storm Petrel

Example: Photo by Tony Morris, License: CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr

kumhár

kumhár
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n cat’s cradle game

kutpor ia nirak

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n my testicle

kuvnpaha

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pearl shell

kwanakur

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n. 1. kind of tree (bark used for rope), 2. cool season

kwanakurakura

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n. secondary forest growth (e.g., over a garden site)

kwanatan

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n. interior house radial long post

kwankouru

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kind of bird trape ( triangle shape)

kwatiuvtiuv

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n. drinking straw (made from immature banana leaves)

kweria

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n. hawk

kwipehe

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cyclone house

kɨmiahaga

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n. a secondary sprout or shoot (of a plant)

makhum

Scarus rubroviolaceus http://fishbase.org/summary/Scarus-rubroviolaceus.html
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Ember parrotfish, redlip parrotfish

Example: Photo by Derek Keats, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

makhum

Scarus quoyi http://fishbase.org/summary/Scarus-quoyi.html
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Quoy’s parrotfish

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

makhum

Cheilinus fasciatus http://fishbase.org/summary/Cheilinus-fasciatus.html
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Redbreasted wrasse

Example: Photo by BBM Explorer, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

manuapen

Ducula melanochroa
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Black Imperial Pigeon

Example: Illustration by Joseph Smit / Wikimedia Commons, License: Public domain via es.wikipedia.org

mar

Polistes olivaceus https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/318792-Polistes-olivaceus
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Yellow Oriental Paper Wasp

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

maramara

maramara
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garland of plant worn on the head for decoration

minin

Acanthurus mata http://fishbase.org/summary/Acanthurus-mata.html
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Elongate surgeonfish (sea)

Example: Photo by Paddy Ryan / www.ryanphotographic.com, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

nakanakan

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n. kind of tree

nakogar

Use with Euodia (MJB 5031; Nisei) when a young girl gets her period to reduce the odor. Put this plant under the skirt. When planting yam, dig the hole, and burn the leaves of this with coconut. Put this flaming concoction into the hole and cover it with soil. Then place the yam in. This will help kill any pathogen, like a virus, that will harm the yam.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5048)

Example: Use with Euodia (MJB 5031; Nisei) when a young girl gets her period to reduce the odor. Put this plant under the skirt. When planting yam, dig the hole, and burn the leaves of this with coconut. Put this flaming concoction into the hole and cover it with soil. Then place the yam in. This will help kill any pathogen, like a virus, that will harm the yam.

namatamai

Lethrinus olivaceus http://fishbase.org/summary/Lethrinus-olivaceus.html
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Longface emperor

Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, 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

napoti sarariman

Plectorhinchus chrysotaenia http://fishbase.org/summary/Plectorhinchus-chrysotaenia.html
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Yellow-striped sweetlips (male)

Example: Photo by Graham Edgar / Reef Life Survey. License: CC BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

naprapames

1. When making a ground oven (nimum), these leaves are heaped on the stones, before the oven is buried with dirt.
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n. terrestrial; leaves up to ca. 2 m long. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2611)

Example: 1. When making a ground oven (nimum), these leaves are heaped on the stones, before the oven is buried with dirt.

napuei pameta

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n. species of coconut with reddish nuts

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.

naria-hia

naria-hia
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wooden forks

Naskao

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village betwen yatukwei and tapir

nawaprien

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[narwaperien] lightning

nayouk

Photo by Martial Wahe
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n. tree; coleus

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

nefeg

Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Construction: The timber of this plant is used to create roof members of local houses. It is not considered a strong wood.
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[nəfwe:ŋ] n. tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2985)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Construction: The timber of this plant is used to create roof members of local houses. It is not considered a strong wood.

nekes kes

When a person sees this in flower, they know that the taro is ready for harvest. Birds like the fruit and so boys like to hunt the birds near the plant.
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[nakɨskɨs] n. parasite on fallen ficus branch, growing in dense forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3136)

Example: When a person sees this in flower, they know that the taro is ready for harvest. Birds like the fruit and so boys like to hunt the birds near the plant.

nesen

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rain

niar

Wood is strong and good to make houses with, particuarly house posts. Also good for firewood.
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[nijer] 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.

niepur

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n. Croton sp.

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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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.

nikovahaien

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n. fork of a tree

nimai

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n. garden

nimewae

Use stem to build roof rafters. Before people had matches, this plant was used to light fires by rubbing one stem of this against another piece of the same tree.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5061)

Example: Use stem to build roof rafters. Before people had matches, this plant was used to light fires by rubbing one stem of this against another piece of the same tree.

nimwa purupuo

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[nima purupuo] n. chief’s round house

nirɨs

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n. kind of tree with stinging leaves (Semecarpus vitiensis)

nisai-arman

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. These leaves are also used to tie a kava root for a ceremony in the nakamal. 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 mak
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n. shrub to 1.5 m, flowers white (collection: Michael J. Balick #4728)

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. These leaves are also used to tie a kava root for a ceremony in the nakamal. 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 mak

nisei

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).
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n. 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).

nisesatok

Photo by Martial Wahe
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n. plant (to be identified)

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

nkhaourakou

Wood is hard, making it good for canoe making. Also used to make the stick that holds outrigger to canoe (Nikiavet).
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n. 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).

nukuk

Prosaptia contigua
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n. epiphyte. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2619)

nurap

Wood from this tree is good for making house posts, as it is very strong. The wood is considered as excellent firewood. To restore energy when a person is tired, chew the leaf, swallow the juice, and spit out the leaf--it will make the person feel better.
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n. tree to 7 m tall, dbh 49 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4733)

Example: Wood from this tree is good for making house posts, as it is very strong. The wood is considered as excellent firewood. To restore energy when a person is tired, chew the leaf, swallow the juice, and spit out the leaf--it will make the person feel better.

nurap

For toothaches, take inner bark, scrape it into water and use to rinse mouth--pain will go away. Stem for house posts. Birds like this flower.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5167)

Example: For toothaches, take inner bark, scrape it into water and use to rinse mouth--pain will go away. Stem for house posts. Birds like this flower.

nurepa

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clay

nɨkriakéi

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n. kind of tree, with edible green fruit with sweet milky white flesh, collected wild and eaten on Tanna

nɨmai nukwanen

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n. his/her hair

nɨmei raer

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.

nɨmeiei

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n. kind of fern (used as chicken feed)

nɨmirɨki taru irama

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n moustache

nɨpɨn rakwiei

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cold, dry season

nɨsuvás

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n. kind of tree with edible seed in a hairy pod

nɨtara

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coconut leaf rope

pangkor

Photo by Martial Wahe
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n. soursop tree

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

peha

peha
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traditional stone axe

rawtapareɨ ia- takouar

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I climb a mountain

remɨn

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n. lemon (Bislama?)

(Bislama) remƗn

reyai

Platax orbicularis http://fishbase.org/summary/Platax-orbicularis.html
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Orbicular batfish

Example: Photo by Elias Levy / Flickr, License: CC BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

rhurhu

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kind of skink (green)

riminhik

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my dad

rinhem

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his/her mum, his/her mother

takwu

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yam mound

takwɨr

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hill

taparwarewa-ia-nirak

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n my lung

tapatou

Acanthocybium solandri http://fishbase.org/summary/Acanthocybium-solandri.html
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Wahoo

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

tasi

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sea

tegi tɨsi

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today pool of water

uapu, kuapuapu

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kind of skink

wipin iariman

Carangoides ferdau http://fishbase.org/summary/Carangoides-ferdau.html
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Blue trevally (male)

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

yakamema

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v I am sick

(Bislama) mi sik