Nafe (Kwamera)

v push down, poke down

Speaker: Martial wahe

v curse

Speaker: Martial wahe

v fight with a club, wield a club

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr smack lips (as to call a dog)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr heal (as a sore), feel better, calm, become quiet

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. plant (certain plants such as taro, papaya, kava, sugarcane, manioc)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v kick, stub one’s foot

Speaker: Martial wahe

v warm oneself, sit near a fire

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr stop raining, clear

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v compress, tighten, close up, weave tightly

Speaker: Martial wahe

v mix together (foods), eat two foods at one

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v bathe a child ritually for the first time

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v connect, bring together (as two fire logs), box (as two men)

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v tie a house post

(Bislama) taetem ol pos blo aos.

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

answer

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v go sleep

(Bislama) go silip

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[hasi] n. they are smoking

Speaker: Jean Eskar

tribe name, lives at Iatukwei

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of sprouting coconut the sprout of which grows along the body of the nut

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Aneityumese

Speaker: 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

Teal Emo Skink

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

Scientific name: Emoia cyanogaster via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

white meat of clam

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5134)

Example: Cut open ripe fruit, put red seed in mouth, chew them, then spit out hard seeds left. Ancients used to eat the seeds in this way -- certain people still like it.

Scientific name: Momordica charantia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. shrub. fruits and flowers directly on the stem or short inflorences. mature fruits white (about 1,5 cm l). Leaves with short petioles (about 1 to 3 cm) (collection: Laurence Ramon #331)

Scientific name: Cyrtandra sp2, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. kind of high prestige yam

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Brown Chub, Grey Sea Chub, Grey Drummer

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

Scientific name: Kyphosus bigibbus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

bat (flying fox)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coffee beans (Bislama)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speckled blue grouper, speckled grouper (deep sea)

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

Scientific name: Epinephelus cyanopodus 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

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5136)

Example: To tie the wall of a house, strip off leaves and tie fresh to house.

Scientific name: Flagellaria indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

condom

Speaker: Martial Wahe

long tailed thriller

Scientific name: Lalage leucopyga, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. plant with sticky leaves and seed pods

Speaker: 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 lava bomb

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of seashell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable root

Speaker: Martial Wahe

part of sea shell, (snail operculum), Pacific cat’s eye

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. pumpkin

(Bislama) kƗmkƗn

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

upraised coral

Speaker: Martial Wahe

woven coconut mat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

noun a dried leaf used to ceremonially wrap kava root

Example: see more on Youtube

listening

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Brick soldierfish

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

Scientific name: Myripristis amaena via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

[marəs marəs] n. understory tree, 3-4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3133)

Example: People toss sticks made from the stem of this plant at flying fox to tear their wing so they can’t fly and are caught.

Scientific name: Schefflera neoebudica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

volcanic glass shards (Pele’s hair)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nakwanumɨn] rock earth oven

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

creek

Speaker: Martial Wahe

dawn

Speaker: Martial Wahe

gathering

(Bislama) meeting

Speaker: Martial Wahe

leaf worn on head

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5074)

Example: Used for food. Boil the leaves for 15-20 min, fry them, or put them in the earth oven to eat. They taste very good.

Scientific name: Microsorum, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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

advice

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub or tree

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Dendrocnide, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nafare] 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: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. primary forest

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

I am angry

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. small tree, 2.5-3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3076)

Example: If a person has a sore body or headache, someone else chews the leaf of this plant and spits the chewed leaf on the specific part of the person where the pain is found. The herb should stick to that part of the body and be applied 1x in the morninig and 1x in the afternoon, leaving the plant on the person as long as it stays.

Scientific name: Breynia disticha, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nme̤hu] n. tree growing along ridge track in disturbed forest, next to garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2979)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood.

Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[nokwai nɨfaŋa] arrow and bow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5157)

Example: When young baby is loosing weight, give young tops--cooked-- to mother to eat for one month to help increase milk. You can also scrape a handful of inner bark of Ficus kajewskii (5163) into small pieces with a knife, mix with a handful of the young tops of (5157) in 1L of water and cook it, and squeeze the juice into a bottle. Drink one cup twice daily for one month to help a mother who is not providing enough milk for her baby. Kids put inflorescences in hair as a sort of rasta fashion.

Scientific name: Boehmeria macrophylla, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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: Emmanuel Maasi

n. kind of tree, leaves used to set chewed kava on, bark infusions for treatment of coughs

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my gums (of mouth)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. kind of kava with short branches

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. driftwood

Speaker: Martial Wahe

name of a traditional road linking villages in South-East Tanna

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n boulder

Speaker: Martial wahe

yam trellis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree (wood used for small canoe outrigger or house posts)

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Pacific Reef Heron (dark)

Example: Photo by Arthur Chapman, License: CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Egretta sacra, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Singapore parrotfish, greenthroat parrotfish

Example: Photo by Rick Stuart-Smith / Reef Life Survey, License: CC BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

n rudder (of boat)

Speaker: Martial wahe

Lined Surgeonfish, Bluelined Surgeonfish ~ marasaw (Port Resolution dialect)

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

Scientific name: Acanthurus lineatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

good morning

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[ʰreja] chicken

Speaker: Martial Wahe

daylight

(Bislama) delaet

Speaker: Martial Wahe

died laughing

(Bislama) det laf

Speaker: Martial Wahe

fork (as in a tree)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. firefly, (according to Lindstrom 1986, 2. phosphorescent sea algae or fungus)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

my bag

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of plantain from Tonga

Example: Used for cooking

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5047)

Example: To increase milk flow in a nursing mother, take a double handful of leaves and put in 1 liter of water. Drink one bottle twice a day for three days.

Scientific name: Alternanthera brasiliana, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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

skin

(Bislama) skin

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. understory tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4208)

Scientific name: Schefflera neoebudica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[tɨpurpaɪ] n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2980)

Example: Construction: The timber of this plant is used as a hardwood for any part of house. It is considered a strong wood.

Scientific name: Claoxylon fallax, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. mangrove

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[turawasi] n. you (two) are smoking

Speaker: Jean Eskar

plant with large banana-like leaves used to wrap for baking laplap, taro, fish (Heliconia sp.)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n slingshot

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of centipede

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I will sleep soon

(Bislama) mi stap silip nao.

Speaker: 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

Yasur volcano

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe