Aneityum

v.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

v.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 56

v.n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 58

[amŋi kava] phr.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

[amŋinwei] phr.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

v.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

v.n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

v.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

adj.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

pro.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

v.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

inter.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

[eseʧ] num.

Speaker: David Nasauman

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 79

n.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

adj.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

adj.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

n.

Scientific name: Pandanus tectorius, Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 85

n.

Example: This is a sacred plant. The wood is used for rafters in house building. To plant taro, take an 8 cm diameter stick, sharpen it and use to make holes for planting. The stick is as long as needed for a person to stand while making the hole.

Scientific name: Syzygium nomoa, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Scientific name: Neuburgia corynocarpa, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Example: 1a. This type of hibiscus has young leaves that are reddish in color and it is an edible type. The stems are eaten during April-July. Harvest the stems, beat them and cut off the outer bark. Collect inner bark, slicing it off the stem and wrapping it in a banana type leaf with coconut milk added. Bake all night at least 8 hours, then it is eaten. Said to taste like a root vegetable. Used during the dry season when there are not many crops available. 1b. Take young shoot of the tree then pound the base to separate the base of the bark from the stem but leave it on the stem, say pound 4-5 inches around the base, then come back 3-4 months and the rest of the bark would be thicker. Then cut where it was pounded, cut stem in 1.5-foot pieces, bake on an earth oven, leaves on bottom layer (on top of charcoal) then sticks, then leaves on top, then hot stones, and then more leaves. Bake for 1.5 hours, then remove a stick at a time and use shell to scrape away outer bark, cut into 6 inch pieces, put on log, pound to make softer, put in lap lap leaves leaf wrapping, add coconut milk, put in stone oven, cook for one hour then open lap lap leaves and eat. 2. This variety is for this purpose just like Pohnpei. 3. This variety is not used for grass skirt.

Scientific name: Hibiscus tiliaceus, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 113

[inʤa anʤia] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[inʤupurapni] phr.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 87

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Example: The wood of this tree is used as firewood. Children collect the dry fruits and use them for decorations and toys, for example playing with a fruit on the beach, driving it as if it were a toy truck or boat (photo).

Scientific name: Heritiera littoralis, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Example: latex blown from stalk using it like a straw; anti-hemorrhage

Speaker: Bradacs 2011, p. 441

n.

Scientific name: Oxera lehuntei, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Example: 1. To cure toothache when pregnant - Take the inner bark from Intejed and boil it in a pot of seawater (about 1 liter) along with 2 leaves from each of inpoutnatmas, narayag, nahayag, and nelmaha. Boil until juice is visibly leaving the plants. Put this water into your mouth and hold it there for 2-3 minutes. Do this this with one cup in the morning, 1 cup in the afternoon, and 1 cup in the evening. 2. This plant is special and people grew it – use it after burial of a chief – wash hands with these leaves and water to cleanse the people who buried the chief. 3. Name means belongs to the spirit

Scientific name: Codiaeum variegatum, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Example: 1. Sickness blo namya. When a man accidentally has intercourse with a woman during her menstrual cycle, he can become sick. The leaves are squeezed, along with others, to produce an extraction. The dose and duration varies according to the degree of the symptoms. Further information about the preparation withheld.

Scientific name: Psilotum complanatum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

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

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

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.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 89

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Example: Use the wood of this tree for firewood.

Scientific name: Arytera neoebudensis, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Scientific name: Syzygium malaccense, Speaker: Romario Yaufati

v.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 90

n.

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

n.

Example: This plant is used as a starchy food. To prepare it, grarte it into a dish, wash with water, the starch settles to the bottom, pour off the water, dry the starch in the sun and make it into a powder. The starch can be cooked with coconut milk and eaten.

Scientific name: Tacca leontopetaloides, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 94

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

n.

Example: People must not drink kava close to this tree. If you have any leaves of this plant with you when you drink kava you will not feel its effect.

Scientific name: Dendrolobium umbellatum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

[nalak ŋaɣeseɣa] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Scientific name: Maesa aneiteensis, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Example: Photo by John E. Randall, License: CC BY-NC 3.0

Scientific name: Gerres oblongus via FishBase, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

n.

Example: People use this for an uspecified medicine.

Scientific name: Achyranthes aspera, Speaker: Tony Keith

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 96

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 140

[narisin nɛpʧinoʊɣsin] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 141

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 113

n.

Example: 1. When a sea shell pricks you "Inlac", a person can be lifted by magic using these leaves. Further information about this use withheld.

Scientific name: Macropiper latifolium, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 98

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

n.

Example: 1. To cure rubbush blood - Take a handfull f leaves of any age, pound it into a cupfull of water, squeeze the juice and drink when woman feels pain in head or inside the body or when the inside of the body is hot. Drink this once a day until the pain goes away. 2. To cure excessive bleeding after giving birth - boil naojapdak leaves (2-16) in seawater until leaves are soft and the water is brown. Sit on this water. 3. To close the cervix - boil 2 naojapdak leaves in water and bath in it. 4. Medicine: Smash leaves 1 handful, into cup and add a small amount of water to treat constipation—1 cup for children; 1.5 litres for adults. 5. Stomachache: same treatment, will clear bowel. 6. For leg sores, collect whole plant, put in water – a pool of water for 1 week, then use to dip sore as on leg into it for 10-15 minutes cure the sore.

Scientific name: Vigna marina, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Scientific name: Acalypha grandis, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

[neθelat] n.

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

Speaker: Osiani Nerian

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Example: 1. The trunk of this tree is used to make the body and outrigger of a traditional canoe. 2. The inner bark is used as a bandage for cuts and wounds. When the inner bark is grated it yields a sticky substance. The sap acts as a liquid stitch and reduced the chance of scarring. When this is dry one must use a knife to remove the residue.

Scientific name: Hernandia moerenhoutiana, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 114

n.

Scientific name: Leucosyke australis, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

[nɛpʧinoʊɣsin] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 132

n.

Example: 1. The name refers to the rope that is used to transport fish. Accordingly a rope made from this plant is used to string and transport caught fish.

Scientific name: Dendrobium cf. involutum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120

n.

Scientific name: Diplazium melanocaulon, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Example: To treat a headache, especially from the flu, boil a handful of leaves in 1 liter of water for a few minutes, let cool and drink 1 cup of liquid per day . Also can treat this type of headache by using the plant in a steam bath, by boiling 4 handfuls of leaves in a pot of water, covering the head with a towel and breathing in the steam from the pot.

Scientific name: Bidens pilosa, Speaker: Tony Keith

n.

Speaker: Chris Nevehev

inter.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120

n.

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

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Example: 1. When the stems of this plant are older, and it is a vine, is used to tie thatch on roof rafters as it bends well. 2. Burned leaves and rubbed on fishing line and spear to increase catch – used with other unspecified leaves, that are forageable. When you are fishing and if you set a basket or mat it means danger and you have to return to shore – the spirit is telling you that it is enough fishing.

Scientific name: Durandea pentagyna, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 113

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

prep.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

[rabaθ] n.

Example: Photo by Teddy Llovet, License: CC BY-NC 2.0 see more on Flickr See how this bird is featured in the origin story of Aneityum chiefs at see more on Youtube

Scientific name: Falco peregrinus, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

n.

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

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

[jaŋ] n.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

n.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi