Nafe (Kwamera)

v scrape out, spoon out

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. cut bush for a garden, scratch (one’s head)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v 1. slide on, slip, strip off (as leaves); clean (as kava with coconut fibre), clear away debris, clear one’s throat; 3. sober up (from alcohol or kava) by clearing one’s throat with food or water; 4. massage

Speaker: Martial wahe

v fight with a club, wield a club

Speaker: Martial wahe

v deflect an object (as a football), cast off, shake off one’s body, abandon one’s supporters (as a leader)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr urinate

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v life up, stand up (from a prone position), arise, life something which is on the ground

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. order, set in order; 2. clean up, police, collect leavings of food (for fear of sorcery)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr boil, toss (as the sea), fizz (as soda), bubble

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. drop, let go of, throw away, discard; 2. stop doing, leave, die, no longer exist; 3. dodge (as a thrown stone)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr make war, fight (as local groups)

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v turn aside, turn back (as a person), block

Speaker: Wahe Martial

black

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v forget, leave behind, not take, not want

Speaker: Martial wahe

chew

Speaker: Martial Wahe

don’t cry

(Bislama) no cry

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. to clear away bush or brush, to scratch, claw, or carry away

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n camp

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. to wear a penis wrapper

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I dig yam

(Bislama) dikim yam

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of coconut with reddish fibre

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. small coconut, coconut fruit bud

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

where is your village?

(Bislama) ples blo yu wea.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Erromango

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of sea shell; droga

(Bislama) Droka

Example: eatable shell, boiled in the saucepan or roasted in the fire

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kawəwə] n. sparsely branched tree, 7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3044)

Example: Ceremonial: During a large kastom ceremony ("Nakwyari"), a branch of this plant is used to sweep the nakamal before the toka dance.

Scientific name: Meryta neo-ebudica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5143)

Example: Use this plant to stop the rain, take 4 tips of the plant’s branch and place them in a cross formation, with the tips pointing N, S, W, E, wash them in sea water, and then call for the rain to stop. Hang these tips in a tree with rope for five days. Stem used to weave roof rafter to attach coconut fronds to stick. Young men hunting in bush with slingshots, when run out of stones, use these young fruits to hunt birds.

Scientific name: Meryta neoebudica, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. thunder

Speaker: Martial Wahe

brown

Speaker: Martial wahe

traditional dance

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Cardinal Honeyeater

Scientific name: Myzomela cardinalis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

her brother

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Varicose Wart Slug

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

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

n morning star

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. liana growing on coconuts and ficus trees

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Flagellaria indica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

ankle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

last born child

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of banana with small fruit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n comet

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n door, doorway

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cyclone house

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. a fruit with yellow skin and red seeds, edible, grows on low vines

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n slingshot (Bislama?)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

plant to be identified used for basketry

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. leaf

Speaker: Jean Eskar

Humphead wrasse

Example: Photo by Anne Hoggett / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

n waning crescent (moon phase)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n waxing crescent (moon phase)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of cassava, has yellow flesh—the name means “yellow curry”

Scientific name: Manihot esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Violet squirrelfish

Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

kind of fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

plant (to be identified)

(Bislama) nalalas

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of yam, has tubers with two colors in the same root—both white and red and is sweet and soft

Example: Is a special yam for paying dowry

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. kind of banana

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. well branched tree, 10 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3111)

Example: People use trunk for houseposts as the stem is very straight. The stem also can be used for firewood.

Scientific name: Syzygium myriadenum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. herb growing on roadside along coast road. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3168)

Example: This plant can be used to tell the sex of an as yet unborn baby. Two people hold the stem and tear it. If three threads from the corners of the stem come off, the baby will be a boy; if all 4 corners of the stem come off, the baby will be a girl. Two people start tearing the stem from both sides of the cut stem.

Scientific name: Cyperus sp., Speaker: Martial Wahe

[natuwan] n. large tree, 10-14 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3124)

Example: The wood of this plant smells bad. It is locally called a type of "stink wood." When young children get circumsized in kastom ways, to change the leaves for their bandage, take off the bark of this stem, take the inside part and scrape it--mix a handful of the scrapings with grated coconut, put it together in a leaf, put it on the fire, heat it, when the coconut is browned, squeeze it together to get the "milk" that is yellow in color. When young children swim in saltwater to dry the cut from the circumcision, squeeze this on that area to help heal it.

Scientific name: Dysoxylum amooroides, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. well branched tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4249)

Example: 1. The fruits are eaten by flying foxes. 2. Dried wood are used as torches, and are considered long-lasting.

Scientific name: Ficus septica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3246)

Example: The young stems are used to make rafter of the house. A "calendar plant," when this plant flowers it is a good time to hunt flying fox because during that season they have a great deal of fat. Leaves used in the treatment of male children who have been circumsized. Wrap pieces of coconut with these leaves,heat in fire for 5-10 minutes, squeeze the hot leaf-infused oil all over the body. Children are taken to the sea to bathe and this will help heal the sore when it is put all over the body. It also gives the child a nice smell.

Scientific name: Melicope latifolia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5069)

Example: To treat constipation, take 1 handful of leaf, squeeze in water (small beer bottle size) drink the bottle all at once to loosen stool. Ripe fruits are eaten--as they are very sweet.

Scientific name: Ficus septica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. well branched tree, 10 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2983)

Example: Agricultural: When in flower, taro (Nerei) is said to be ready for harvest.

Scientific name: Metrosideros collina, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. shrub or tree

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Dendrocnide, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. liana growing on trunk of hedycarya dorstenioides, in dense forest along ridge. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3009)

Example: Animal Feed: The green leaves of this plant are used to feed pigs. Hunting: The inner part of the long dry rhizome is woven to create a pidgeon trap.

Scientific name: Epipremnum pinnatum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. handle of axe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. house

Speaker: Martial Wahe

penis wrapper

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. kind of tree (from which combs are carved), 2. comb

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. shrub, 2 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Cyrtandra obovata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Malay apple, (Syzygium malaccensis)

(Bislama) nakafika

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

kind of cone shell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of high prestige yam

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. banyan tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree (used for hosue rafters)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Humphead wrasse (female)

Example: Photo by Anne Hoggett / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

East (cardinal direction)

Speaker: Martial wahe

kind of fish with black color

Scientific name: clown unicorn fish, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Great Eggfly

Scientific name: Hypolimnas bolina, Speaker: Martial wahe

Painted sweelip, dotted sweetlips (male)

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

Scientific name: Plectorhinchus picus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

South (cardinal direction)

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: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

[pukar] n. pig

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of fish: spiny puffer?

Speaker: Martial Wahe

throw the stone

(Bislama) sakem stone

Speaker: Martial Wahe

mum, mother

Speaker: Martial Wahe

women’s bark skirt

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut development stage 1

Example: Very small, not ready to eat or for any other use

Speaker: Martial Wahe

hill

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n ceremonial circumcision exchange cycle

Speaker: Lindstrom 1986

n. herb, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3250)

Example: Children shoot the small hard seeds through a bamboo tube at lizards and butterflies, as a sort of game.

Scientific name: Canna indica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

grave

Speaker: Martial Wahe

roots of pandanus

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Emperor Nautilus

Example: via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Nautilus pompilius via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

kind of seashell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5152)

Example: Leaf used to cover boils on skin. Mash leaf slightly and cover boil. Leaf pulls out liquid from boil. Use this for 3 days, changing the leaf 2x daily. Young plants (branch) for toothache to reduce pain. Boil in water and wash painful area. Use as needed until pain subsides. Also can collect insects in dried stems and use these to feed chickens. (Hymenoptera).

Scientific name: Homalanthus nutans, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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

Yasur volcano

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bed

Speaker: Martial Wahe