Aneityum

v.n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

v.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

v.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

v.n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 72

v.n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 154

v.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 75

[et puarapuanan par lei] phr.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 79

v.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 80

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Example: The fruits of this species are cracked open and the seeds eaten. The leaves are mixed with other leaves to make an unspecified traditional medicine. The plant is also used for firewood.

Scientific name: Barringtonia edulis, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

v.n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 81

n.

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

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

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Example: 1. The fruit of this species are poisonous. In ancient times the ancestors used the "fork" (branch growing out of main stem) of this wood to catch lobsters between the two parts of the stem. 2. Fertilizer for taro, in case you are not cleansed, it is ok as this plant as fertilizer will cleanse you.

Scientific name: Geniostoma rupestre, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Example: 1. The straight poles of this plant are sharpened and used to plant kava, and only for kava. Not used for planting other crops. 2. Special for catching eels in fresh water, poke stick with leaves into hole where eel lives and they don’t like it so they come out and you catch them, by cutting with knife.

Scientific name: Maoutia diversifolia, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[inhɛlɛk] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

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

Speaker: Jack Keitadi

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Scientific name: Tabernaemontana pandacaqui, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 113

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

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Example: The young leaves are edible, after boiling for 5 minutes. A piece of coconut and a pinch of salt is wrapped in the leaves and eaten. The mature leaves are used to wrap food such as pig or cow meat and cooked in an earth oven. Tie this bundle with a piece of Pandanus fiber to secure it before putting in the earth oven. Both the green and ripe fruits are edible. This plant is used in kastom ceremonies. For a peace ceremony, if there is an argument, then this leaf is used to make peace between the parties. For many ceremonies, put on top of taro, kava or food pile, . For peace ceremony, when a person has food in an offering, give a branch of this plant to the other party to symbolize that the conflict is over. It is a "message plant" that conveys a meaning that people do not have to say out loud. When a stranger walks through a village with this plant in his or her hand, people know there is no threat or problem. When a young man first shaves, people give him a necklace of this plant. In the old days, hair was pulled out of young men, now people use razor blades.

Scientific name: Euodia hortensis, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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Scientific name: Cordyline fruticosa, Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 89

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120

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Example: Photo by jidanchaomian / Flickr, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Plectropomus laevis via FishBase, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

n.

Scientific name: Psychotria

[inwei] n.

Speaker: Osiani Nerian

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120

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Example: The fruits are edible when they are red. If a person has been drinking kava and the next morning feels hung over, they can take a handful of the leaves of this plant, crush them in cool water, and wash their face with this. This treatment will help the kava feeling to disappear. At the same time, if a person eats the fruit of this tree a few hours in advance of planning to drink kava, they cannot drink kava as it will reduce the effects of the kava. The trunk of this tree can be used to build temporary houses and also it is good for firewood. When the plant is in flower, flying foxes and birds come to drink the nectar and hunters know this so they hunt near this tree.

Scientific name: Syzygium, Speaker: Tony Keith

n.

Example: Wood used for timber.

Scientific name: Burckella, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Scientific name: Piper methysticum, Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 91

n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 92

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[nafɛtʊ manava] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

[naha] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120

n.

Example: Stems are used to produce cyclone houses--secure wild cane (Miscanthus) on the roof of the house. Fold cane in half over the stem of this plant and then lay it on the roof. Makes layers that resist the wind. The stem of this plant can be sharpened to make a fishing spear, or used as the shaft and a few wires are attached to the end.

Scientific name: Tarenna efatensis, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 151

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Example: It is a kastom belief that people should not drink kava under this tree.

Scientific name: Dendrolobium umbellatum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Example: 1. The larger stems of this plant can be used to build houses, for rafters. 2. It is also a good source of firewood. 3. Ancestors, before go to chief’s canal and want to talk about a complicated issue – a person would cut a branch and bring it to the sea and tap the water surface and would say what he wants, ask that he would want that issue to be solved and that others would follow his ideas and then go back to the meeting place and take stick, keep wind at his back, moving stick in all directions and then he will convince the people of his ideas. This is done by the chief’s spokesman. Helps convince the opposition. Helps keep power in hands of parent(??) chief rather than subchiefs who might have other ideas.

Scientific name: Glochidion ramiflorum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n. Salmon Fis

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

Scientific name: Aprion virescens via FishBase, Speaker: Chris Nevehev

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Example: 1. A stimulant plant. If a person is going to their garden early in the morning before the sun come up, break 2 top young leaves and chew and swallow the liquid, spitting out the fiber. This makes the person able to work harder and not feel tired while in the fields. It was noted that "a person can do the work of many people if they chew this." 2. The leaves are used for fertilizer for taro--put a bunch of leaves in a hole were taro is to be planted as a compost/antibiotic. This practice is said to kill all of the bad organisms such as bacttively impact the health of the taro plant. 3. This species is collected in the coastal areas, and is different from the one that looks similar to it, that grows in the forested areas. People take 4 leaves, chew leaves, swallow juice, gives energy to work hard the entire day. For fishing, take lots of ripe fruits and put in pocket, you will be able to catch a lot of fish. It brings good fortune when fishing. Roots – take one root, wash where a woman is giving birth to a newborn baby, give a drop of the juice from the root to clear the mucus in the throat.

Scientific name: Scaevola taccada, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

[narisin nɛpʧinoʊɣsin] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 96

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Example: Origin story of Aneityum chiefs on see more on Youtube

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

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Example: People say it can remove the power of a love potion.

Scientific name: Hemigraphis reptans, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 97

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 98

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Example: Roast the tuber of this vine on an open fire for 20-40 minutes, peel off the skin and eat like cassava or taro. Chew it and drink the "juice" while spitting out the fiber. It grows wild, season of harvesting is in May. Very tasty food for people, considered "numba wan" food for this island.

Scientific name: Plectranthus scutellarioides, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

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Example: This plant is used as fertilzer to place on bottom of the taro patch in the same way as GMP #3456 to help "feed the ground" for next year. The leaves are used to wrap food. When a person is chewing kava, pile the chewed kava roots on the young leaves of this species. Also, an unspecified medicinal use.

Scientific name: Acalypha grandis, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Scientific name: Acalypha repanda, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 98

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120

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Example: The leaves of this plant, along with other leaves, are used to make an unspecified traditional medicine.

Scientific name: Tapeinidium denhamii, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Example: The leaf is wrapped around the head as an adornment by both men and women. If a person gets burned by a fire, scrape the petiole of this plant and squeeze juice on the wound to cool and heal it. Use as long as needed. The ancestors are said to have cooked the stump of this plant in an earth oven, over 2-3 nights, and then ate it. It is said to have no taste but was more of a famine food during periods of drought.

Scientific name: Angiopteris evecta, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 99

[nelgoʊ waj] n.

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

Speaker: Osiani Nerian

[nɛʝɲan] n.

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

Speaker: Osiani Nerian

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 99

[nepiŋ u nausej] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 183

n.

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

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Scientific name: Murraya paniculata, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Speaker: David Nasauman

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120

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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: Titiya Lalep

n.

Scientific name: Dipodium pictum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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Example: 1. If the preferred banana leaves are not available to wrap food for cooking, then use young leaves of this species and tie taro and fish for cooking. 2. Use leaves to wrap fresh water prawns and fresh water fish and cook them on charcoal. Use as a cup by making funnel out of leaf and drink from it. 3. Used for unspecified ritual activities.

Scientific name: Dillenia biflora, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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Example: When the flowers of this plant are green, it is an indication that the cool season is approaching; when the flowers are brown, the dry season is coming. The wood is used to make rafters for the roof of houses, on which to tie thatch.

Scientific name: Commersonia bartramia, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 151

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

Speaker: Jack Keitadi

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Example: People who go fishing take this plant along with other unspecified leaves, crush them and rub them on the fishing line that the person is using. This is said to attract more fish to the bait. It is also a "message plant" to be put in a person’s hat when they come back from fishing and then people know that they caught fish. Local name means "fish gill."

Scientific name: Schizaea dichotoma, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

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Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Siganus punctatus, Speaker: Chris Nevehev

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[ɲiroʊn] n.

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

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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Example: 1. The inner bark of this plant is used as a dye or paint to provide a brown color. Boil the inner bark in a pot with a shirt and the color of the shirt will be changed to brown. 2. For toothache, people take the inner bark and mix it with sea water, and then rinse the tooth with this mixture to remove the pain. 3a. People macerate the leaves and the bark and when the tide is low, spread this in a pool of water to poison the sea shells that are edible. When they die, the eyes of this organism comes above the sand, indicating where they are, and people harvest and eat them. 3b. To attract and collect clam – NIPJINUMU – scrape bark in a pool of sea water where the clams are attracted immediately and can be collected, coming up from the sand. 4. Firewood, unspecified medical use.

Scientific name: Acacia simplex, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

[nowoɣ] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Scientific name: Melodinus glaber, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

[nugep] n.

Example: Photo by David Cook Wildlife Photography / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Scientific name: Macropygia mackinlayi, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

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Scientific name: Procris pedunculata, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

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Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[nupʧin hoθaiŋ] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

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Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 153

n.

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

Speaker: Romario Yaufati