Nafe (Kwamera)

v light, illuminate, shine (as the sun), glitter

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr yawn

Speaker: Martial wahe

v wring, wring out (as kava from a strainer), squeeze by hand

Speaker: Martial wahe

adj. uncooked, raw, fertile (as land)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v sneeze

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. refuse, not want, choose not to, leave, stop (doing), not care, give up; 2. with ra, denotes state of sufficiency: plenty, enough

Speaker: Martial wahe

v close (as a door)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v cough

Speaker: Martial wahe

v tr wear around neck (as a necklace, neck ornament or tie)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v roll (as a cigarette), roll up (as a mat)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v help, assist

Speaker: Wahe Martial

adj. thirsty

Speaker: Martial Wahe

sleep and look up

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v shut the door

(Bislama) sarem door

Speaker: Martial Wahe

axe (of stone, for traditional canoe carving)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[ganhɨk] my penis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I scratch taro

Speaker: Martial Wahe

make fire

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of turtle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

a stage of coconut development

Speaker: Martial Wahe

adj late

Speaker: Martial wahe

Rough triggerfish, poisonous

Example: A poison fish which can sometimes be eaten. Photo by Ross Robertson / Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific online information system, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Canthidermis maculata via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Moluccan snapper

Example: Photo by John E. Randall, License: CC BY-NC 3.0

Scientific name: Lutjanus boutton via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5161)

Example: Leaf mixed with Malaxis sp. (MJB 5154) to treat broken bone. Conjunctivitis (pink eye) drip juice from the stem intp the eye 2x day 3 days. Fertility: To cleanse womb squeeze on stem into bottle with water and drink 1L a day for four days to get pregannt.

Scientific name: Canavalia, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. tree, small

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Meryta neo-ebuca, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. body oil, coconut oil used for adornment

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. flying fox flying

Speaker: Martial Wahe

One-blotch grouper (deep sea)

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Epinephelus melanostigma via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Red-tipped grouper (deep sea)

Example: Photo by John E. Randall, License: CC BY-NC 3.0

Scientific name: Epinephelus retouti via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, h= 15 m. young brown elongate fruits with a greyish green fleshy calyx. Thick branchlets with the leaves at the top. White latex. For the locals it is the main kind of burckella obovata (round fruits). (collection: Laurence Ramon #332)

Scientific name: Burckella, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

fence

Speaker: Martial Wahe

club, with star shaped head

Speaker: Martial Wahe

long tailed thriller

Scientific name: Lalage leucopyga, Speaker: Martial Wahe

grass skirt plant, sea soaked

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable 1. a type of taro, yellow, 2. a type of tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of seashell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of plant (ginger?)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

spear becket

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Striated Surgeonfish, Lined Bristletooth, small silver scaled fish

Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Ctenochaetus striatus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

plant name: kind of weed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. mango

(Bislama) magko

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of ground dove

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Sabre squirrelfish

Example: Photo by Andy A. Lewis / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Sargocentron spiniferum via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. melon, watermelon, etc.

(Bislama) mereni

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of yam

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5162)

Example: Fruits are edible, ripe, break open with hammer and eat seeds fresh. Stems for house posts. Stems for carving.

Scientific name: Cordia subcordata, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n my rib

Speaker: Martial wahe

house fish or cave fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Ambon emperor

Example: Photo by FAO / Fishbase, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Lethrinus amboinensis via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Spangled emperor

Example: Photo by Richard Ling, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Lethrinus nebulosus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

cousin (mother’s brother’s child)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

dark clouds

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. species of coconut with green nuts

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. variety of coconut with short trunk

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n White Sands language, spoken in East Tanna

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my waist

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3108)

Scientific name: Ficus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of cassava, yields roots in 6 months after planting

Example: Used to prepare all types of food

Scientific name: Manihot esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

[nau] machete, knife

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

argument

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5038)

Example: Fruits edible when ripe. The stem is used for timber and sawn timber. Flowers attract fruit bats. Hunters, knowing this, hunt the bats at night.

Scientific name: Syzygium malaccense, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. tree to 6 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Morinda citrifoli, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[narwas] n. tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3072)

Example: People use the fruits as medicine to treat diabetes, "cancer" and ulcers. Collect ripe fruits, put the juice in a bottle and drink. The bark can be boiled in water and consumed to treat diabetes, 1 handfull of bark to 1 liter of water. Drink 3x daily to treat diabetes. It was said that Sam’s wife’s HA1C score went from 14 down to 6 using this remedy.

Scientific name: Morinda citrifolia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5106)

Example: If someone has swollen legs or arms, like from bruises or boils, crush leaves and rub on the swollen area twice a day for 1 week, or until sores disappear. For anemia, take a double handful of leaves, squeeze into 1 L water, and drink one bottle three day for 2 weeks.

Scientific name: Plectranthus scutellarioides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5114)

Example: Weave bark fiber to make slings, grass skirt for ladies, hats and baskets. To do this, rett outer bark in sea for 1 week to rot everything but the fiber, take remaining fiber, dry in sun and use as a fiber for weaving.

Scientific name: Hibiscus tilliaceus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5082)

Example: Wood is very hard and good for making canoe. Wood is good to build house (house posts). Takes seeds from dried fruit, break them open, boil in water and collect oil that rises to the top. This oil used as massage oil. Rub oil from dried seeds in hair to kill lice.

Scientific name: Calophyllum, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n the white of my eye

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. large tree root

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my toe

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5033)

Example: Young leaves edible, boil with water or cook in coconut milk. Cook fruit in boiling water, then cook in coconut milk. Cook fruits for 6-10 minutes. He was taught this by his grandparents who showed him how to eat wild plants; his grandfather wasa historically significant person in the Port Resolution area, especially in reference to medicine.

Scientific name: Ficus wassa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nurapap] n. very well branched tree, 6-8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3054)

Example: When this tree grows with straight stems it is used for house posts

Scientific name: Weinmannia denhami, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. tree, 3-4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2974)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Animal Food: Sometimes, green leaves of this plant are fed to goats.

Scientific name: Geniostoma rupestre, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Hibiscus, species with edible leaves, ’island cabbage’

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of kava with short branches

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. your hair

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nɨpeiaka] n. dry coconut husk

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

foam

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. kind of tree, 2. bent staff or stick used by toka dancers

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Redbreasted wrasse

Example: Photo by BBM Explorer, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Cheilinus fasciatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

soursop fruit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Meadow Argus

Example: Photo by obinfiji / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Junonia villida via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n rudder (of boat)

Speaker: Martial wahe

my elder brother’s wife

Speaker: Martial wahe

my younger brother’s daughter (my niece)

Speaker: Wahe Martial

pig

Speaker: Martial Wahe

candy

Speaker: Martial Wahe

salt

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Red-rimmed Melania

Example: Photo by leonperrie / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Melanoides tuberculata via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

n youth, circumcised boy up to the age of marriage (i.e., approx. 5 to 18 years of age)

Speaker: Lindstrom 1986

small shoot or sprout of a plant

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Fiji taro

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of taro

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 6 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Claoxylon fallax, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of yam

Speaker: Martial Wahe

unicornfish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

wind direction: south-east wind

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. herb, 40-60 cm tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3252)

Example: Introduced species, no use known.

Scientific name: Commelina benghalensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Blue trevally (male)

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Carangoides ferdau via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Squaretail mullet

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Liza vaigiensis via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe