Nafe (Kwamera)

v. unwrap (as a tuber pudding), open (as an earth oven)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v 1. must, have to, be obligated to, ought; 2. ask, request; 3. insist on, continue (in doing), demand, do anyway, proceed against advice, strive, try hard

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v intr look upwards, face upwards (as a playing card)

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v pet, rub (as a dog), tickle

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v sleep, close (as one’s eyes, or the leaves of a plant at night), blink

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v spread, spread out

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v intr rustle, swish, rasp, scrape

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drown

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v intr intersect, cross, lie across

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v see erupwun

Speaker: Wahe Martial

kill dog

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alone

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v tie a house post

(Bislama) taetem ol pos blo aos.

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. take! or hold! (imperative)

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grave

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Port Vila

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v I dig taro’s bed for planting

(Bislama) mi tikim hol blo taro

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chief

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octopus

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stonefish

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duck (native)

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n. vine, to 4 m off forest floor (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3260)

Example: This is a famine food. Cut the vine, clean the outside of it, remove bark, put the vines on a hot stone oven, cover with leaves (unspecified) and one hour later the vine is edible.

Scientific name: Entada phaseoloides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. thunder

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of taro

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5101)

Example: To treat ciguatera disease (fish toxin), boil a double handful of the male flower, in 2 liter water, 10-15 min. Drink all at once warm. Drink one pot daily for 2 days. Leaves and flowers to feed pigs. Fruit edible. Slice the green fruit and boil it to make soup or fry it in oil and make a salad. Ripe fruit to make jam.

Scientific name: Carica papaya, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. flying fox

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of basket woven with young coconut leaves.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Coral hind, coral grouper (deep sea)

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

Scientific name: Cephalopholis miniata via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

[kwani̤ni̤] n. herb to 1 m, flowers yellow (collection: Michael J. Balick #4730)

Example: The entire plant is pulled up, the stems bound together and used to make a local broom.

Scientific name: Sida, Speaker: Jean Pascal 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. semi-inalienable strip of coconut frond used as a rope

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. sweet potato that is planted close to yams

Speaker: Martial Wahe

flute

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roots of pandanus

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bladder

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n. kind of plant, not edible, long strands that float in the sea, causes painful skin irritation

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. baked vegetable food eaten along with meat, food baked in an earth oven (other than tuber puddings)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Purple-winged Mantis

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

Scientific name: Tenodera australasiae via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. a type of sugarcane, very thin and long, yellow or light green color, very sweet, planted in gardens

Speaker: Martial Wahe

type of woven coconut frond mat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Tripletail wrasse

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

Scientific name: Cheilinus trilobatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n hail

Speaker: Martial Wahe

dream

(Bislama) dream

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n. coconut

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. plant (to be identified)

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Psychotria milnei, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of large fern

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

two days ago

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n fumarole: an opening in a planet’s crust, often in areas surrounding volcanoes, which emits steam and gases such as carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen chloride, and hydrogen sulfide.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

knot made of vine and holding together posts of cyclone house

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5111)

Example: Use leaf to line earth oven on top of stones to protect lap lap from burning. If you’re building a bush house in the forest, children can sleep on these leaves in a temporary house.

Scientific name: Microsorum grossum, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5071)

Example: Stem used for stick for Toka dance, due to it’s "hook" shape. Axe handles and bows are made from this tree, very hard wood

Scientific name: Croton insularis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of fern

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. shrub or tree

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Ficus septica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

big food festival

(Bislama) bigfala kakae

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[narwaperien] lightning

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[nawes] n. tree to 6 m tall, dbh 40 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4740)

Example: Fruit used for local medicine. When a person is diagnosed with "cancer" in the local hospital, take a ripe fruit in a cup of water and macerate it until the smell of the fruit comes out in the water, drink every other day, 3x daily, morning noon and night. Also used for firewood.

Scientific name: Morinda citrifolia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5091)

Example: When the fruit is ripe, it is put in a pot with water. Fill half of a large bag (2 liters) with fruit, add this to 2 liters of water and macerate the fruit in the water. Drink 2 cups/day of this extract, morning and afternoon, for one week to make skin oily when it is too dry. This is necessary, for example, when a person drinks too much kava and thir skin dries out. Eat young fruits as a protection from someone who wants to do you harm. It is said that the fruit has 10 eyes, and can watch after you. Cover fish with leaves to cook in a fire. Crush and boil pieces of the stem and leaves and dri

Scientific name: Morinda citrifolia, Speaker: Johnson Noar

[nijæpər] n. sparsely branched shrub, 1.5-2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3083)

Example: This plant is used as an ornamental, and is important to plant on graves. The color signifies a grave.

Scientific name: Codiaeum variegatum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. large, well branched tree (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4240)

Example: 1. A locally revered kestrel, known as tikurkak, makes it’s nest with the leaves.

Scientific name: Weinmannia denhamii, Speaker: Martial Wahe

canoe parts: bailer

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n. traditional medicine

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n. shrub, 6 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Vitex trifolia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

blue coral

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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5094)

Example: Leaves gathered to feed pigs.

Scientific name: Ipomoea indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

[nukuk arman] n. epiphyte on trunk of ficus tree, growing in dense forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3128)

Example: Unspecified secret medicine

Scientific name: Belvisia revoluta, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[nukunene] n. tree stump

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pine cone

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n clearing in the forest

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plant part to be identified used for tying

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Crytosperma, Bislama: ’wild taro’

(Bislama) nuvia

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

bow

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n. hibiscus

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n. 1. fern tree (black palm), 2. barbed arrow (made of nɨkweto wood)

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n. sandalwood

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n. my hair

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n. kind of sugarcane, small with brown color, very sweet

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of red soil found in south Tanna

Speaker: Martial Wahe

wind direction: west-northwest wind

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foam

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n. kind of tree with edible seed in a hairy pod

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n. kind of tree with scented bark, can be used for timber

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bamboo (used to refer to several introduced species)

(Bislama) pampu

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Tailed Rustic

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

Scientific name: Vagrans egista via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

traditional stone axe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Globehead parrotfish

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

Scientific name: Scarus globiceps via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Yellowfin Parrotfish

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

Scientific name: Scarus flavipectoralis via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. butterfly

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Claret-breasted Fruit Dove

Scientific name: Ptilinopus viridis lewisii, Speaker: Martial Wahe

cat

(Bislama) pusi

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[ʰrawɨs] grass skirt

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n my esophagus

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n. kind of thorny beach vine with purple flowers

Speaker: Martial Wahe

duck

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Red Jungle Fowl (male)

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, Aneityum island, Vanuatu, Dec. 2018.

Scientific name: Gallus gallus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Banded Sea Krait

Example: Photo by melianie_and_max / iNaturalist, License: CC0 via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Laticauda colubrina via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

n my right foot

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n fish species: jackfish, wahoo

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n fish species: possibly a type of grouper

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n tidal pool, salt evaporation pool

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Little spinefoot, scribbled rabbitfish

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

Scientific name: Siganus spinus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe