tree

Lebar 1972

wood; tree

Niggemeyer 1951-52

wood

Stresemann 1927, van der Miesen 1911

tree

Blust n.d.

base of a tree

Blust n.d.

tree

Wallace 1869 (1962)

wood

Sahidu 1978

wood

Devin 1989

tree

Devin 1989

tree

Fox, J. n.d.

tree

Fox, J. n.d.

tree; wood

Hughes n.d.

wood, piece of wood, pole, post, stick, tree

Josselin de Jong 1947

pieces of wood

Josselin de Jong 1947

wood, tree

wood; tree

Ekris 1864-65

wood

Onvlee 1984

wood; tree

Capell 1943

pole; tree

wood; tree

Jonker 1932

wood; tree

Verheijen 1982

tree

wood, in combination forms; tree

Jonker 1932

wood

van Dierendonck n.d.

wood, tree, trunk, staff

Verheijen 1967-70

wood

Collins 1983

wood, stick; tree; forest, bush; stiff like a piece of wood, as one’s back

Arndt 1961

tree

wood

Verheijen 1977a

tree, stalk, wood

Jonker 1908

tree

Jonker 1908

wood

wood; tree

Drabbe 1932a

wood; tree

Fortgens 1921

forest (‘in/among the trees’)

Morris 1984

wood

Stresemann 1927

stick, wood

Collins n.d.a.

tree

Capell 1944

stick, wood

Ngaibor

wood

Wallace 1962

wood

Collins n.d.a.

tree

Hooley 1971

wood, tree

tree, plant, wood, stick, club, plank, timber, log

Feinberg 1977

generic name for wood, tree

Geerts 1970

wood

a tree or plant having stem and branches; not used of a fern cycad, sago palm, coconut, etc.

Fox, C. 1970

tree

Tryon 1976

tree

Tryon 1976

tree

Tryon 1976

stick

Tryon 1976

tree

Tryon and Hackman 1983

tree

Blust n.d. (1975)

tree; shaft of spear

Ivens 1940

tree

Tryon 1976

penis (men’s talk)

Jackson and Marck 1991

carrying pole

Goodenough and Sugita 1980

wood; tree

a tree, piece of wood, stick; wooden, very hard

Capell 1968

definitely a tree

Capell 1968

tree; woods; stick

wood; instrument

Sabatier 1971

tree; wood

Lincoln 1977

tree, plant, wood, timber, forest, stick, thicket, club; blow of a club; strength, rigidness, hardness; male erection; to have formed mature wood, as of a seedling; wooden, woody; stiff, as wood; medicine, medicinal; lump or knot in the flesh, as eased by the rubbing #kahi massage; to have a cramp

Pukui and Elbert 1971

tree

tree; stick, pole; log; bush

Lieber and Dikepa 1974

tree

tree, branch, stick, woody plant (shrub, bush)

Keesing 1975

a male tree; hence, sterile, unmarried, childless

Keesing 1975

tree

firewood, bundle of firewood

Fox, C. 1974

wood; a mast

Fox, C. 1974

mast

tree

tree

tree

tree

tree

Blust n.d. (1975)

mast

Blust n.d. (1975)

tree; stick, wood

tree

Blust n.d. (1975)

tree

tree

tree; to be strong, to be stubborn

Böhm 1975

firm, to be strong or stubborn

Böhm 1975

tree; wood, timber; stick, spar, mast; weapon; wooden

Williams 1971

long swell

Williams 1971

trunk of a tree; torso of a person; tree

Abo, Bender, Capelle and deBrum 1976

tree; stick

tree

Jones 1998

tree

Wheeler 1926

tree; firewood

Lister-Turner and Clark 1930

tree

tree

Blust n.d. (1975)

mast

Blust n.d. (1975)

a branching plant, shrub or tree, i.e. balsam, croton, and banyan are all #gai, but not a palm or coconut; wood, timber; firewood; stem or handle of an axe, pipe, etc. (not basket); prefix to names of plants or trees

Fox, C. 1955

tree, wood, timber; rod, staff, weapon

McEwen 1970

tree

wood; stick (of wood)

Carroll and Soulik 1973

tree; wood; stick (of wood)

tree

stick

Blackwood 1935

tree

tree, wood

Capell 1943

stick; tree

tree

tree

general name for trees or shrubs or plants; general name for wood of any kind; a pole, a rod, a stick; a weapon

Savage 1980

a poisonous tree, a bitter herb; also used to denote a gun

Savage 1980

general name for any kind of log, stick, or plant (tree, bush, shrub); canoe log; shark tail; fighting club

Elbert 1975

sacred staff of a priest, scepter

Elbert 1975

tree, plant; wood, timber, piece of wood; box, chest, safe, thing made (or usually made) of wood)

Churchward 1940

tree, wood , more commonly used in Ulawa; to be stiff, numb

Ivens 1929

plant, tree; wood; apparatus, set, machine; instrument

Milner 1966

stick; wood

tree

tree

tree

Blust n.d. (1975)

wood, timber

Bell 1977

tree

tree

Beaumont 1979

wood; made of wood, wooden

Churchward 1959

stalk, stem (of leaf, without or with the midrib, or of a flower or fruit); something resembling a stalk or stem, e.g. stem of a tobacco pipe

Churchward 1959

tree, plant

Churchward 1959

tree (does not include palm trees, cycads, tree-ferns, bamboos, banana trees); wood; firewood; timber; stick, pole, post, beam; mast of a ship, and some other relatively long and thin objects made out of wood

wood

tree, stick; plant; penis

fire plough; bed of fire plough

tree

tree

Tryon and Hackman 1983

tree

wood; generic for trees and shrubs, and occasionally low bushy plants; used in certain compounds as a generic for all plants; piece of wood, stick; (vulgar, colloq.) penis; in restricted phrases, be hard, strong, tough; wooden, made of wood

Pawley and Sayaba 2003

tree

Blust n.d. (1975)

penis, male genital

Sohn and Tawerilmang 1976

wood, tree

Anceaux 1961

tree, wood

Anceaux 1961

stick, wood

Grace n.d.

tree; wood

Maan 1940

tree, wood

Anceaux 1961

tree

Walker 1990

tree, wood

stick, wood

wood; tree

van Hasselt and van Hasselt 1947

tree, wood

van Hasselt and van Hasselt 1947

tree, wood

tree, wood

tree, wood

wood; tree (in combination forms)

Held 1942, Anceaux 1961

wood, tree