Aneityum

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

v.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

v.a.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[an] pro.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

v.n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

adj.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

v.a.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 62

v.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

adj.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

[ditij nadimi] phr.

Speaker: David Nasauman

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 77

v.n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 78

n.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

[inɣej] n.

Speaker: Chris Nevehev

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 130

n.

Example: Red, dried fruits are fed to small chicks as food.

Scientific name: Rivina humilis, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 86

n.

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

Scientific name: Kyphosus cinerascens via FishBase, Speaker: Chris Nevehev

[inhuleɣ] n.

Example: Photo by Roger Le Guen, License: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Gerygone flavolateralis, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 86

n.

Example: 1. Branches of this plant are used to insulate and cover earth ovens.

Scientific name: Codiaeum variegatum, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 113

n.

Example: Photo by charlie20 / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Chlorurus microrhinos, Speaker: Chris Nevehev

n.

Scientific name: Calophyllum neoebudicum, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 89

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 89

n.

Example: In the past the ancestors learned to cook the leaves of this species with fish in an earth over and then eat the leaves as well as the fish. Today, fish are wrapped with small leaves and then covered with lap-lap leaf (Polyscias) and cooked in an earth oven.

Scientific name: Wedelia uniflora, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Scientific name: Endiandra aneityensis, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Scientific name: Syzygium malaccense, Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Example: 1. When in flower (yellow), taro is said to be ready in the garden.

Scientific name: Metrosideros collina, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Scientific name: Santalum austrocaledonicum, Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 91

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

conj.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

n.

Example: This grass is planted to protect a person’s farm from being affected by evil spirits.

Scientific name: Chrysopogon aciculatus, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

n.

Example: This plant was said to have been brought in by the early missionaries, used to starch their clothes and grown as a crop for export to England. Used as a food crop as well, the root is mashed, dried in the sun and kept until needed. To process, put the roots in a bowl, add water and soak for 1 day and night, pour off the water and keep the starch. Prepare this food like lap-lap that is cooked on a fire in a pan.

Scientific name: Tacca leontopetaloides, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

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. 136

n.

Scientific name: Canarium indicum, Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120

n.

Scientific name: Carpoxylon macrospermum, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

n.

Scientific name: Canavalia rosea, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 193

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[nakajaŋ a nijman] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

[nakro] v.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Example: When children feel weak, this is a good medicine for them. Squeeze the leaves and give the child (3-5 years of age) one tea spoon of the juice and it is said to make them strong again.

Scientific name: Appendicula reflexa, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

[nanin] n.

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

Speaker: Osiani Nerian

n.

Example: 1. The wood of this tree can be used to make posts for traditional houses.

Scientific name: Alphitonia zizyphoides, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Example: 1. The fruits can be cooked with coconut milk and consumed. 2. Green leaves can be used to wrap fish, when they are cooked in a fire.

Scientific name: Ficus smithii, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 141

[neɣeɣ] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Scientific name: Vigna marina, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Example: This tree has very hard wood. 1. Use the small stems to plant dry land or swamp taro, sharpening the end and pushing it into the ground to make a hole. 2. It also is useful for fence, posts for houses. 3. Small stems are also used to make a comb for the hair. 4. Plant pole for taro kava. 5. A branch is shaped and used to husk coconut. 6. The wood is hard and in ancient times people would take a forked piece and put string on one side of it, sharpen the other side and use with the string as a fish hook – need to keep rope tight until it is in the canoe. Do not give it slack – strong use AAM 17.

Scientific name: Halfordia kendack, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Scientific name: Acalypha wilkesiana, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 98

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 98

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 150, 172

n.

Scientific name: Leucosyke australis, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 114

n.

Scientific name: Pteris comans, Speaker: Romario Yaufati

[nepiŋ θoʊ] n.

Speaker: David Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 100

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 133

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 100

n.

Scientific name: Youngia japonica, Speaker: Titiya Lalep

n.

Example: The leaves and stems are boiled in water to make tea. The base of the leaves (the whitish part) is used to cook foods that have a strong odor, such as goat or shark. The base is sliced and put in the soup and this helps to keep the smell of the goat or shark from infusing through the rest of the food and making it less palatable. In some areas of Aneityum, such as in cassava fields, there is a fungus that kills the crops. This species is interplanted with the crops to kill that fungus and protect the crop plants.

Scientific name: Cymbopogon citratus, Speaker: Tony Keith

n.

Example: Stalk: chewed, agaist headache

Scientific name: Ficus adenosperma, Speaker: Bradacs 2011, p. 443

n.

Example: 1. The name means "I come". This plant is used to convey messages. When a branch of this plant is left at the house of a person it indicates someone had visited them and they were not there. 2. Children eat the nut of the ripe (yellow) fruits.

Scientific name: Finschia chloroxantha, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

[nipatunanin] n.

Speaker: Osiani Nerian

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 102, 117

[niprij ~ nipriʧ] n.

Example: Photo by David Cook, License: CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Gallirallus philippensis, Speaker: Jack Keitadi

n.

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

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

n.

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

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

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

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

n.

Scientific name: Syzygium nomoa, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 181

n.

Example: 1. The flower of this plant is used for decoration, for Christmas in particular, in church and home. 2. To attract a mate, put the flower in your hair. 3. This is the introduced one that is named after the wild type.

Scientific name: Gloriosa superba, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

n.

Scientific name: Dysoxylum bijugum, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

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

[nuʤaɣ] n.

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

Speaker: Chris Nevehev

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120

[nʊpsɛθoʊn] n.

Speaker: Ruben Nerian

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

adj.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 107

v.

Speaker: Kirk Keitadi

n.

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

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

v.a.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 109

n.

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

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

n.

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 112