Nafe (Kwamera)

v 1. rub, rub off, scrub, clean by scrubbing, wash; 2. rub against

Speaker: Martial wahe

v hold on to, grasp, keep, retain, hoard (guests, goods, an idea)

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v drip, leak

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v 1. rotate, turn in circles, turn aside, turn (something) around; 2. turn around at (a place)

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

Speaker: Wahe Martial

adj. slippery

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cut his penis

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take out the skin of the something like hood stemp with a knife

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v push something, like a car or tree

(Bislama) pusum trak

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adv., adj. wild, in the bush

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v cut fire wood in pieces

(Bislama) spletem fire hood.

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n. house vertical support posts

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sandpiper

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I sleep

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Iakunwis, home of Nipikinwan tribe

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crayfish

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n. Port Resolution

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wheeled toy

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sleeping mat of woven pandanus

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type of spider

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Dome Web Spider

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

Scientific name: Cyrtophora moluccensis via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

brother

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longtail silver-biddy

Example: Photo by Rainer Kretzberg, License: CC BY 3.0

Scientific name: Gerres longirostris via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my eyelid

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kind of breadfruit, medium-sized

Example: Cooked on a low fire as it has very soft flesh. Good tasting variety

Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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Elegant Phyllidia

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

Scientific name: Phyllidia elegans via inaturalist.org, 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

t.o. Sea Slug

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

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

Coral grouper, coral rock grouper (deep sea)

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

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

[kwanjere] n. tree, 12-13 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3089)

Example: The nut inside of the fruit contains sap. Cut a fruit in half and stick it to a person’s arm, and then take it off, put earth on the place where the sap is, and it makes a temporary tatoo that lasts for 3-4 days. This fruit is the best flying fox food, and when the tree has ripe fruits many flying foxes go there to feed, and hunters know this. The fruits are eaten by people as well.

Scientific name: Burckella obovata, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[kwankamun] n. large herb, 0.5 to 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3002)

Example: Ornamental: The white fruits of this plant are used as pendants to fashion a necklace for a man, woman or child.

Scientific name: Coix lacryma-jobi, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. liana growing on coconuts and ficus trees, at edge of disturbed agro-forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3087)

Example: The fiber from the stem is used to make a local rope used to tie thatch on the house. Also used to make an armband to put on the Nisei (Euodia hortensis) leaves (Plunkett et al.#3077).

Scientific name: Flagellaria indica, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

v vers

(Bislama) vesem

Example: joined something like robe or joined relationship between two people.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. magically treated stalk of wild cane used in kava fertility spells or to tabu a garden, road, etc.

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of bird trape ( triangle shape)

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n. sweet potato that is planted close to yams

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a stage of coconut development

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

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n. kind of tree, variety of niemƗs

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

type of fish spearing arrow with two barbs

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Common dolphinfish, mahi mahi

(Bislama) Mahi Mahi

Example: Photo by Alex Kerstitch / Shorefishes of the Eastern Tropical Pacific, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Coryphaena hippurus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n marketplace, market

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. manioc (var. of manto)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. mandarin orange, tangerine

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Black Imperial Pigeon

Example: Illustration by Joseph Smit / Wikimedia Commons, License: Public domain via es.wikipedia.org

Scientific name: Ducula melanochroa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

butterfly fish

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Brown surgeonfish

Example: Photo by David Burdick / via guamreefli License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

[mɨriaki] small lizard or salamander

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n. sea hearse tree (Hernandia peltata), has red timber used for posts

(Bislama) napiripiri

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ghost

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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5084)

Example: Planted for shade near a village or near houses. Shade tree.

Scientific name: Acacia simplex, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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

n hilltop

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n plateau

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[napeɨn] n. machete marks on tree

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n. plant (to be identified)

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Psychotria milnei, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5128)

Example: Medicine for gonnorhea. Collect two plants and clean their roots, boil whole in 2 liters water, boil 20-40 minutes, drink the mixture hot, 2 cups a day, 3 weeks. This condition presents as a burning in the penis, along with other issues. For heavy cough, take double handful leaf, boil 10-15 minutes in 1 liter water, 2 cups day warm, for 5 days. Pods used to calm children by shaking as rattle, when they are crying.

Scientific name: Cassia, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. to laugh

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of breadfruit, produces a very long stem, the highest of any breadfruit, and then forms fruits when it becomes a very tall tree

Example: The wood is no good for making canoes as it is too soft

Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

High Hill

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n. shrub, 4-6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3090)

Example: This plant is known as "fishbone leaf" as the edge of the leaf tears away and the remaining part is serrated. It is a powerful medicine that is secret.

Scientific name: Leea indica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

I am angry

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exchange partner

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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5032)

Example: To treat anemia, known as low blood, take a double handful of leaves, squeeze into 1 cup water, and drink 1 cup daily 5 days. Leaves also fed to pigs to help them grow faster.

Scientific name: Acalypha grandis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. parasitic epiphyte growing on upper branches of fagraea berteroana, in dense forest along ridge. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3012)

Example: Hunting: Birds are attracted to this plant for their flowers. As a result, hunters gather around this plant when they desire to hunt these birds.

Scientific name: Amyema aneityensis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

[nikinapus] n. shrub, 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3067)

Example: Young boys make bows from the stems of this plant, and use them for hunting as the wood is hard and strong. If a boy needs a bow urgently, to hunt, he can use this.

Scientific name: Acalypha cf. repanda, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. shrub, 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3067)

Example: Young boys make bows from the stems of this plant, and use them for hunting as the wood is hard and strong. If a boy needs a bow urgently, to hunt, he can use this.

Scientific name: Acalypha cf. repanda, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. flowering plant

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. fern

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earthquake

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[nui jasori] river

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horizon

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pine cone

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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

[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

plant (to be identified, grown in gardens, said to originate from New Caledonia)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of Tahitian chestnut

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n. small plant with variegated leaves

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n. traditional medicine, cure for illness caused by Mwatiktiki (culture hero responsible for yam growth)

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yam trellis

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Dark capped parrotfish

Example: Photo by Andrew J. Green / Reef Life Survey, License: CC BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

Three-stripe fusilier

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

Scientific name: Pterocaesio trilineata via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n airplane

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Lined surgeonfish

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

Scientific name: Acanthurus lineatus via FishBase

n. the first shoot of any young plant

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Whitespotted surgeonfish

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

Scientific name: Acanthurus guttatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n sound

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n fork in the road

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Kuni’s Nudibranch

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

Scientific name: Goniobranchus kuniei via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my stomach

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Golden spadefish

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

Scientific name: Platax boersii via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Fiji taro

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snail shell pointed

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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5023)

Example: The wood can be used to make poled for cattle fences. Fruits are sweet and edible. They are also very juicy, and can satisfy thirst. Take bark off of the tree and scrape the green inner bark of tree off. Cover a boil with these pieces to reduce the size and help it heal. Apply once a day for three days.

Scientific name: Pipturus argenteus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. branched tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4215)

Example: 1. When in flower, a local pidgeon, known as Tikurkak, prepares to lay its eggs. When the fruit dehisces its eggs are considered to have hatched.

Scientific name: Astronidium aneityense, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of stingray

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Flathead grey mullet, sea mullet, grey mullet

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

Scientific name: Mugil cephalus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

kind of yam, has white flesh, soft and sweet, with a very large tuber, and is easy to grow

Example: If it grows in good conditions, the tubers are so large that it takes two people to carry it on a pole

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar