DJI121109AC

That’s the ronier.

baxon imba

Here is where it comes out.

na gafutti

Those are the roots, they are called ‘jaxontiŋ’.

na jajëndëb ahuya jaxontiŋ

It’s not ‘jëndëb’ (roots).

gurón jëndëb

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The word ‘jëndëb’ is used for trees.

jëndëb sinunuhen

But the roots of a rônier are called ‘jaxontiŋ’.

me baxon jëndëbhënëm ahuya jaxontiŋ

That’s a rônier.

nax iŋguni baxon

It goes up to his ‘neck’

adëët bahan a budëëkënëm

It sprouts the main branch.

afuno bugóm

That branch produces the leaves.

bugóm buŋ gëdëkëne ahaan

All of his leaves begin here up to where the leaf starts, it’s called ‘guciix’ [with sharp edge].

jëñéékenem tu alaxumat naa bahan këgëni guñéér akomasé ahuya guciix

So, you can also call it ‘guxoox’ [dried and without the sharp edge].

bon doŋk uhaŋguli uyen ahuya guhoox

And that here at the side which is sharp is called ‘jaciix’ [sharp edge in form of sawteeth].

aŋgu nini a ceekhenem hëgini ataakane ahuya jaciix

Here are the fibres.

doŋk biŋén amu jahuñuur

The fibres with their leaves

jahuñuur aŋga jëñéékenem

The rônier can be male,

baxon ahaŋguli agu bëdiigén

then, it will spout flowers like that.

doŋk afunokoro des fleurs nini

It is them who are called ‘difiilom’.

num gayenune difiilom

It can be female. It spouts what we call ‘difand’ [= rônier fruits].

ahaŋguli agu badikaam afunot nini ayena difand

So, this cluster has the fruits.

doŋk gudiit guŋgooŋ amu difand

This cluster which comes out here.

gudit guŋgoon gugini afunone nini

That's the fruit.

bufand imbu

It sits like this on the cluster.

difand abombai nini

it is clustered

agu gudiit

And that's the main stalk. And that’s the regime, it has its fruits.

na ahuya bugóóm

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na ahuya gudiit amu difandhanam

If it stays for a while

gëdëëki amiñ na

we say that it has hardened.

inyeno alaxëni

Then, it’s not 'difand’.

en ce moment guroŋ difand

When you can swallow it, then it’s called ‘difand’.

fëgini uhaŋgul udóm ayena difand

And when it has grown hard we say that it has hardened

gëdëëki alaxun ayena alaxëni

If you eat it, it is hard

guxëëbi aratli

After a while it becomes ‘buxun’.

gëdëëkidëëk akuubëla buxun

This ‚buxun’ will fall down.

buxun bumboŋ anenekerex

When it has fallen you take it and grill it, you split it open and you eat it.

ganenti uhaŋguli uñoŋ ujin uesul aŋg uxëëb

You can boil it.

uhaŋguli utëd

The moment you throw it away, there is this thing 'guxebul’.

gutuciret amu huŋan ha guxébul guŋgooŋ ahuya haxébul

It is that which grows out of the ground..

xam gasiitene

This guhebul will grow.

guhébul guŋon asihekerex

The children or even me who is grown up can dig it out, beat it and eat it.

jaraax hani me n' igune udihel ihaŋguli isup gumër idég aŋg ixéb

But, as it grows, its thing, what’s it called, it produces its stem which grows and attaches to the ground

me n' asiixene huŋaankanam ne gahuyux adëk axaan gugóŋkónóm gugini asiixne ayax riéŋ

It will grow ‘tek’ and then it is called ‘guxon’.

adëk garari tek num gayenune guxon

You can dig it out and boil as you can also grill it.

gum nunum uhaŋguli uwuc gumër utëd kom uhaŋguli ujin

You can eat it raw.

kom uhaŋguli uhëb aheen

That’s what I know about the ronier.

nineŋ giyiti a baxon