Ross 1996d

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Sections

• 1.2 Proto Oceanic Phonology and Morphology
  • Phonemes
  • Phonological innovations and Proto Oceanic orthographies
  • Derivational morphology of nouns
• 1.5 Horticultural Practices
  • Introduction
  • Food plants
  • Conclusion
• 1.6 Food Preparation
  • Straining
• 2.7 Properties of inanimate objects
  • Age
  • Colour
  • Wet and dry
• 2.9 Time
  • The year and its seasons
• 3.2 Introducing Proto Oceanic plant names
  • The ingredients of an Oceanic meal
  • Reduplication
• 3.4 Parts of plants
  • Plant part terms in modern Oceanic languages
  • Leaves
  • Shoots, sprouts and suckers
  • Fruit
  • Seeds
  • Thorns
  • Concluding remarks
• 3.8 Wild plants of secondary lowland rain forest and grassland
  • Saccharum spontaneum, wild sugarcane (Poaceae)
• 3.9 Staple foods: root crops, bananas, breadfruit and sago
  • Cyrtosperma merkusii (syn. Cyrtosperma chamissonis, Cyrtosperma edule), swamp taro, giant taro, P kakake, kakama, B wota taro (Araceae)
  • Summary
• 3.11 Nut and fruit trees
  • Parartocarpus venenosa (syn. Parartocarpus involucrata) (Moraceae)
• 3.12 The coconut palm
  • Other growth stages
  • Green fronds
  • Dried fronds
  • Conclusion
• 3.13 Other cultivated plants
  • Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Lagenaria vulgaris, Lagenaria leucantha, Cucurbita siceraria, Cucurbita lagenaria), bottle gourd, TP kambang (Cucurbitaceae)
  • Cucumis sativus, cucumber (Cucurbitaceae)

Words

• POc: wasi taro stem wash wild, untamed
• POc: bʷaŋo new leaves or shoots, (or taro tops for planting?)
• POc: puŋu bunch or cluster of fruit or nuts full
• POc: goRu dry, of vegetation; coconut growth stage 8: dry and ready to fall
• PWOc: pudi-pudi wild banana
• POc: gal(a,o) taro leaves taro leaves
• POc: [s,j]uli(q) banana or taro sucker, slip, cultting, shoot (i.e. propagation material)
• POc: puaq fruit: generic for fruit as a part of plants, the seed and its envelope (N); to bear fruit (v)
• PWOc: baul mangrove, Rhizophora sp.
• POc: toŋoR mangrove, Bruguiera spp.; mangroves (generic)
• PMP: ba(y)it a cycad, Cycas rumphii
• POc: bai-bai(t) a cycad, Cycas rumphii
• POc: nunuk fig trees, Ficus taxon
• POc: qayawan Ficus strangler fig taxon
• POc: ba(k,g)a banyan tree, medium-sized Ficus spp., not stranglers
• POc: (c,j)api Ficus sp.
• POc: ñatuq Burckella obovata
• POc: pau(q) mango, Mangifera sp. (not indica)
• POc: wai, waiwai mango (generic)
• POc: koRa wild mango, Mangifera minor
• PWOc: kasuwai mango
• PWOc: basi mango
• POc: [ma-]goRu(s) dry, of vegetation; coconut growth stage 9 or 10: ripe, perhaps dry and ready to fall
• POc: punut coconut husk, fibres on coconut husk
• POc: pʷenu(t) coconut husk
• POc: [pa]paq[a-] frond of a palm
• POc: Runut sheath around base of coconut frond, used as strainer
• POc: (m,mʷ)ase wild mulberry, paper mulberry, Broussonetia papyrifera
• PWOc: mʷa(r,R)e taxon including Codiaeum variegatum and Cordyline fruticosa