Aneityum

[aɣes noraŋitei] phr.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

v.n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 61

[ak͡pok anʤap̚] phr.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

v.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

pro.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

v.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 121

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 77

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 78

v.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

v.n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 81

n.

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, April 2016.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 151

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 85

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

n.

Example: Rope is made from the inner bark of this plant. Use the rope immediately after it is stripped from the bark, there is no need to treat it with heat as is the case with other plants. Alternatively, the coil of bark rope can be kept in fresh water where it will stay soft until needed. Medicine for women when sick with a headache from the spirit sea snake, or sea god, or sea spirit that makes people sick. Men use it to help with toochaches. Women use it to help with backpain, stomache pain, or any other pain. Must pound two leaves taken from the top of the plant and combine with incespiv. Rosalina Nijae said it was mostly used by men so did not know how to use it well. Walking in bush and become thirsty, cut vine on 1 side and drink. Seeds made into foot bracelets for men for Kastom dances and make all sorts of different sounds. In some places taboo to cut large one as the large ones embody the snake spirit.

Scientific name: Entada phaseoloides, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[inʤupki upni] phr.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 87

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

[inpak] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

n.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

n.

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, Dec. 2018, Aneityum island.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Example: 1. The green leaves of this plant are used to cover fish, when cooking them in a fire.

Scientific name: Cordyline fruticosa, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Example: This plant is said to have a type of magical use. Young men take one node of the stem of this plant and use it in an unspecified way to attract young women.

Scientific name: Amyema aneityensis, Speaker: Tony Keith

[indi] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 179

n.

Example: Children like to eat the fruit of this plant. It is said to taste like pineapple/mango. It must be very ripe to be eaten. Peel and discard the skin. The fruit is most sweet when it is on the ground for a few days. Some children eat the seeds of this fruit but it has a strong oily taste--too many cause vomiting and if a person eats 1-2 seeds it can cause diarrhea.

Scientific name: Ximenia americana, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 113

n.

Scientific name: Tylophora aneityensis, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Example: 1. The trunk is used to produce timber.

Scientific name: Burckella obovata, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 134

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[katamal] n.

Example: Photo by patrickkavanagh/Flickr, License: CC BY 2.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Petroica multicolor, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

v.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[nadimi ditij] phr.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 141

n.

Scientific name: Ophioderma pendula, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Scientific name: Carpoxylon macrospermum, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Example: Children take a shoot of this plant and make a whistle from it. However, when children do this, they are told not to, as it will attract the rains, or a snake, that will hear the noise and come to the person. This is a folk belief. The base of the shoot of this plant is chewed and applied to fresh cuts as a styptic. Pull out top growth of plant that has not flowered and blow on it like a whistle. Ancestors used this as a whistle to attract snakes for edible – not today. Name means “balls or heaps of snakes” refer to their attraction.

Scientific name: Dianella ensifolia, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

[nakro] v.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Example: This plant is a very important food during a famine. People dig up the roots and roast these on the embers of a fire for 25 minutes, then check the root to get out the starchy material, and spit out the fiber. There is said to be little taste; this is a bland food that a person eats to survive. People on Aneityum have harvested it for a very long time so there is not as much of a supply left as in the past.

Speaker: Tony Keith

n.

Example: A type of roselle that is a weed growing in swampy areas.

Scientific name: Hibiscus sabdariffa, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 95

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

n.

Example: 1. Branches of these leaves are used to cover and insulate earth ovens.

Scientific name: Polyscias cissodendron, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

[ɲataʊ] n.

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, April 2016.

Speaker: Chris Nevehev

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 166

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 113

n.

Example: 1. When pig is cooked in an earth oven, branches of this speces are used to cover the pig, before hot rocks are heaped on top.

Scientific name: Ficus kajewskii, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Example: Used as a leaf compost for planting taro, layered on the bottom of the hole and covering the taro as well.

Scientific name: Melicope triphylla, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 98

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 98

n.

Example: 1. The wood is strong and good to make house posts. People use these for this purpose on the coast as salt water does not bother this wood. 2. People eat fruit, split fruit in half, carefully scrape the inner part into a pot of water, keep over night – next day rinse, fry or cook with coconut milk and can add tinned tuna for example, very hard work.

Scientific name: Bruguiera gymnorhiza, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Scientific name: Agathis macrophylla, Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Example: This plant is used to make fishing line, perhaps moreso in the past than today. Collect young shoots form the sides of the tree, peel off the bark, soak the stem in salt water or fresh water for 1-2 weeks to ret the stems then separate the fibers, dry in the sun and use to make string for fishing. The leaves are used for feeding pigs.

Scientific name: Nothocnide (?) repanda, Speaker: Tony Keith

n.

Example: Fiber: Collect the stems of this plant, peel off the outer bark, soak (ret) in seawater for 1 week, then put stone on top of it-the fibers are loosened by the retting, peel them off and hang in the sun to dry and bleach. Weave small baskets, grass skirts and other things from this fiber. When sticks are placed in areas of the sea, shells are attracted to these sticks and people can collect the shells used for adornment--the animals in the shells like to eat the material on the sticks. Dried fruits of this plant are eaten by birds.

Scientific name: Pipturus argenteus, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

[nesʤiŋ ʤin] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

[niθin neaiɣ] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 101

n.

Example: This plant is an aphrodisiac. Eat with coconut meat to make the body strong. Take 1/2 handful of leaves and mix with coconut leaves, use as needed. Mostly men eat this combination. It is best to eat with dry coconut that has no water in it. Eat it any time you wish.

Scientific name: Pemphis acidula, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Example: People use the leaf of this plant to layer on the bottom of the earth oven, and then pile food such as manioc or taro on it, then pile leaves of this species on top of that. This will help insulate the food from the high heat of the earth oven and allow it to cook better. Used especailly in feasts like weddings. Women usually collect this leaf and is used to cover very large earth ovens.

Scientific name: Cleidion javanicum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Example: Leaves used to wrap fresh water fish before roasting on the fire.

Scientific name: Dillenia biflora, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[nitaʔtel (a nelʝo)] n.

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, April 2016.

Speaker: Osiani Nerian

n.

Scientific name: Nephrolepis cordifolia, Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

n.

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, April 2016.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

[nopɲa] n.

Example: Sub-adult Red-bellied Fruit Dove. Photo by Papier K / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Scientific name: Ptilinopus greyii, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

n.

Scientific name: Arytera neoebudensis, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Scientific name: Arytera neoebudensis, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 172

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 121

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 104

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 104

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Example: leaf -- cold maceration taken internally against ciguatera

Scientific name: Polyscias samoensis, Speaker: Bradacs 2011, p. 440

prep.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

[ovan] adj.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

adv.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 108

adv.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 108

n.

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

Scientific name: Sphyraena obtusata via FishBase, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 111