Nafe (Kwamera)

v var. of -agihi

Speaker: Martial wahe

v work, produce, enlarge or improve (as one’s resources)

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v duck, dodge, evade

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v dir sense (hear, fell, touch, taste)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr drop, let drop (as leaves or fruit), fall

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ice

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v. poison (for example a fish)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. to fight with

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adj. big, large

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n airport

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axe (of stone, for traditional canoe carving)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

vatu (currency unit)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5079)

Example: Fruits eaten when they turn yellow and are ripe.

Scientific name: Psidium guajava, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. marigold

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v I chew kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

phrase I planted the island cabbage

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[jaku jaku] n. kind of herb (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3165)

Scientific name: Portulaca oleracea, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Iatukwei village

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phrase where you going?

(Bislama) you go wea

Speaker: Martial Wahe

brother in law, brother-in-law

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrubs with long erect stems. white flowers on long pendulous hairy inflorescences (10-15 cm), white flowers with yellowish calyx and long peduncle. Leaves with long petioles (about 5 cm) (collection: Laurence Ramon #328)

Scientific name: Cyrtandra sp1, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n cicada

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Snubnose dart

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

Scientific name: Trachinotus blochii via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Painted Phyllidia

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

Scientific name: Phyllidia picta via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

Threepot squirrelfish

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

Scientific name: Sargocentron cornutum via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Malabar grouper (deep sea)

Example: Photo by J. E. Randall, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

n. large herb, 0.5 to 1 m tall; adlay millet

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Coix lacryma-jobi, Speaker: Martial Wahe

type of laplap

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Red-breasted Pygmy Parrot

Scientific name: Micropsitta bruijnii rosea, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Pacific Robin

Example: Photo by Paul Balfe / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Scientific name: Petroica multicolor septentrionalis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

cow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable the remnant of the planted taro form which a new tuber has developed (at the base of the harvested root)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n.

Speaker: Johnson Noar

bladder

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

Ember parrotfish, redlip parrotfish

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

Scientific name: Scarus rubroviolaceus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of mango, regular mango for eating

Scientific name: Mangifera indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Peregrine falcon

Scientific name: Falco peregrinus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. almond, Canarium indicum

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n my rib

Speaker: Martial wahe

[nakoŋ har] n. tree to 4 m tall, 25 cm dbh (collection: Michael J. Balick #4734)

Example: For Kastom ceremony, chew the leaves with the white endosperm of coconut and then rub on body to enjoy the fragrant aroma. Sometimes when a person is working hard, and are tired, they take this leaf, mix it with ground coconut and wash in salt water. When planting yams, a bunch of leaves with this plant are mixed with wild cane and burned, and the ash put int he ground as one plants the yams.

Scientific name: Pittosporum campbellii, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[nakua tanna] riverbed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n moon crater

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5112)

Example: To make rain, take four branches, mixed with Zingiber zerumbet (5078). Leave for one week until it rots and smells bad. Move it to the land and it will rain. Leaf is used to stop lightning and thunder. Take four leaves mash, cut a forked stick of Natchy (5019) take outer bark off, put in fire to warm it, wrap with leaf, put in ffront of you in ground and when lightning is coming break off the fork and the thunder will stop. Children eat the fruits.

Scientific name: Maesa ambrymensis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Grass emperor

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

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

fog

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5150)

Example: Poisonous plant. Planted near cultivated garden to kill virus in soil.

Scientific name: Volkameria inermis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5027)

Example: Leaves are used as pig feed to make them grow faster. fed to pigs to make them grow faster. Various butterflied can also get stuck on this plant, so bird’s can also get stuck when trying to eat these insects and can then be hunted or collected.

Scientific name: Pisonia umbellifera, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n adopted child

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[narwaperien] lightning

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of taro, has yellow flesh. It might be a different genus

Example: Good for boiling or making lap-lap

Scientific name: Xanthosoma sagittifolium or Alocacia macrorrhizos, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. tree growing in disturbed forest area along kwataren kastom road. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3095)

Example: The leaves are woven to make mats, hats, baskets, fans. When pollen is released from the flower it is said that fish in the sea are healthy. The roots are used for tying things, pound pieces of root and strip them off and weave into rope. A person can cut a root in a way that makes a brush to paint grass skirts and other objects. This rope can also be used to tie various leaves that are used to cover lap-lap. The leaves can be harvested, the fiber removed and woven into rope.

Scientific name: Pandanus tectorius, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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: Johnson Noar

n. herb to 2 m tall, growing on the edge of a homestead (collection: Michael J. Balick #4723)

Example: This plant is used to lift a person up--take two leaves together and make a "seat" and put it under a person, they can then be lifted up by the two people with a leaf on each side of that person. Use the leaf of this species to wrap rolled leaves of wild tobaco, to protect it and keep it fresh and moist

Scientific name: Piper methysticum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

people, men

Speaker: Martial Wahe

forgot

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n. small tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3240)

Example: People use the wood of this plant to make arrows. When hunting flying fox, people cut a 2’ pieces of the stem to throw at the animal and catch it.

Scientific name: Psychotria trichostoma, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. fruit of nikwa

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5163)

Example: Scrape inner bark (handful) and mix it with MJB 5157 in 1 liter water squeeze in bottle, drink 1 cup 2x daily for mother who is not producing enough milk for baby. Birds eat fruits -- all types like it (flying fox) also.

Scientific name: Ficus kajewskii, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. epiphyte on syzygium myriadenum, outside of transect. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2608)

Example: 1. A locally revered kestrel, known as tikurkak, makes its bed with the fronds of this fern.

Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Numrukwen moiety

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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: Martial Wahe

[nurap] n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3039)

Example: Fuel: Dried wood of this plant is used as firewood. Not: This plant is considered the mountain form. There is another form, Nowaripen, found near the sea.

Scientific name: Ixora aneityensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. pandanus

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of kava with smooth outer bark

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. dragon plum (Dracontomela vitiense)

(Bislama) nakatambol

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of kava with crinkled leaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, growing in disturbed forest/garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3105)

Example: People eat the young leaves, boiling them in water until they are soft and ready to eat. Or, the green leaves are edible when raw, put coconut flesh and salt in the leaf and eat.

Scientific name: Ficus wassa, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. bush

Speaker: Martial Wahe

fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienebale leaf stalk (as of taro, banana, etc.)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

semen

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kind of fish

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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

giant clam

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Ramie Moth

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

Scientific name: Arcte coerula via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

Marbled parrotfish, seagrass parrortfish

Example: Photo Philippe Bourjon / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

Pacific longnose parrotfish

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

Scientific name: Hipposcarus longiceps via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Coconut Lorikeet

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Trichoglossus haematodus massena, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of large taro, from Aneityum

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. coconut stages, one through seven

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Marr’s Fusilier, Twinstripe Fusilier

Example: Photo by Lesley Clements / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Pterocaesio marri via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

skin

(Bislama) skin

Example: skin of something like banana, taro...

Speaker: Martial Wahe

dish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my skin

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n. shrub re-growing from fallen tree, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3003)

Example: Medicine: This plant is used to relieve itchiness. Green leaves are rubbed on an area to reduce the sensation.

Scientific name: Homalanthus nutans, Speaker: Martial Wahe

devil

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. bamboo (native species)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. mangrove

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of flowering shrub with prickly seed pods

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. cutting of leaves or top portion of taro or sugarcane stalk set aside for replanting

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n day after tomorrow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of yam, edible, yellow or white color, from New Caledonia

Speaker: Martial Wahe

African pompano (female)

Example: Photo by Bernie Dupont, License: CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Alectis ciliaris via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Yellowtail Scad (female)

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

Scientific name: Atule mate via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

v I love my wife

(Bislama) mi laekem woman blo mi.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial wahe

Humpback unicornfish

Example: Photo by wahe Martial

Scientific name: Naso brachycentron via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5020)

Example: To treat flu take, a handful of leaves and squeeze them into a cup. Add water, and give to the sick person to drink. Takethis mixture once in the morning and once in the afternoon for two to three days to treat the flue. One can also take four pieces of the stem, about teo to 3 inches ling, chew, and spit juice onto the sick person’s whole body. 1 cup am/ 1 cup afternoon. 2-3 days to treat flu. Take 4 pieces of stem 2-3" long, chew and spit on stick on sick person, spit on whole body. 2x day, 2-3 days as for cup morn and afternoon. Spit helps to chase evil spirit out of body. Common

Scientific name: Bidens pilosa, Speaker: Martial Wahe