[Mihalic] talis / Terminalia catappa

[Robin Hide]

According to Peekel (1984: 403)
Terminalia catappa is talia in Kuanua, talise in (NIP) Patpatar, and talis 
in (NIP) East Kara.

He doesnt give names in these languages for Terminalia kaernbachii,
but for T. complanata, he gives talia-kau in Kuanua, talise-kau in 
Patpatar, and rakasial in East Kara.

Other "common" english names in the general literature are sea almond, 
Indian almond, Java almond.

The Peekel ref is:

Peekel, P.G. 1984. Flora of the Bismarck archipelago for naturalists. Lae, 
Office of Forests.


Robin Hide


>Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 15:37:00 +0900
>From: C A Volker <volker at nalik.org>
>Subject: [Mihalic] talis / Terminalia catappa
>
>The entry for talis asks for more information about the origin. The entry
>suggests Kuanua, it is also a word in Nalik (NIP) "talis" or , when 
>preceded by
>a vowel "ralis". Probably cognates exist in other NI languages?
>
>On-line searching has turned up "tropical almond" as an English equivalent.
>
>Craig Volker

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