[Mihalic] diwai pati

[Stuart Robinson]

Thanks so much for this. I wonder whether anyone has set out to provide an
inventory of the flora and/or fauna of PNG and their associated Tok Pisin
terms. And would such a thing be worth trying to incorporate into Mihalic?
Maybe that's too grandiose an ambition, but since the thought occurred to
me, I thought I'd voice it...

-Stuart

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Jean Kennedy wrote:

> probably "putty nut" ; Atuna racemosa Raf.; family Chrysobalanaceae; synonym of Parinari laurina A.Gray and
> Cyclandrophora laurina A.Gray, often also Parinarium.
> 
> http://www.pngplants.org/PNGtrees/TreeDescriptions/Atuna_racemosa_Raf_subsp_racemosa.html
> 
> Cheers, Jean
> At 13:48 07/02/2007, you wrote:
>       I'm trying to figure out the common and/or scientific name of a type of tree traditionally used in
>       Bougainville to putty canoes. I've come across references to it as 'diwai pati' in Tok Pisin and as
>       'asitai' in Rotokas. Here's an example taken from an in-progress trilingual Rotokas/Tok Pisin/English
>       dictionary:
> 
>       \ex Asitai ova oa iava kueara-ia, opuruara asitapaveira.
>       \xp Long diwai pati ol man i save kisim prut bilong em na patim ol kanu.
>       \xe The 'asitai' tree, they always puttied canoes with the fruit of it.
> 
>       Any ideas from the more botanically knowledgeable out there?
> 
>       Thanks,
>       Stuart
> 
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