Nafe (Kwamera)

v/a 1. glad, happy; 2. hug, hold (onto a person)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v scrape out, spoon out

Speaker: Martial wahe

v forbid, put a stop to

Speaker: Martial wahe

v complement, praise

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. flatter, praise; 2. talk duplicitously, act hypocritically, change one’s side in a dispute

Speaker: Martial wahe

v gust (as the wind)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. cry; 2. pity

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr live, stay at, exist at

Speaker: Martial wahe

v spread to dry (in the sun)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. to ask

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v support, hold up (as a crossbar by two supporting posts)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v spit, spit out (as chewed kava onto a leaf to wait further preparation)

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. spear, stick, pierce, throw (an elongated object); 2. put down, insert, stick something into the ground, plant (as a tree), join; 3. clap, applaud, pat, ringbark (as to kill a tree); 4. be proud, sassy, disrespectful, preen (because of praise)

Speaker: Wahe Martial

ceremony

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. open

(Bislama) openem

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v go sleep

(Bislama) go silip

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Port Vila

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I cut my hand

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Two-spot red snapper, twinspot snapper, red bass

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

Scientific name: Lutjanus bohar via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

stage of coconut development

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of shellfish

Speaker: Martial 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: Johnson Noar

gate

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of spider

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of plant with sticky seed pods, seeds used medicinally for many ailments, including stomach ache

Speaker: Martial Wahe

footbridge made of wood and bamboo

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Moorish idol fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n mirror

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. tree with a dense crown and edible fruit

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Burckella obovata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

grating board for coconut

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. well branched tree, 10 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3036)

Example: Tools: The roots of this plant are used as a rope to fasten pig’s feet during the kastom ceremony. Landscape: This tree is planted as a shelter tree. Hunting: Pidgeons are known to eat the fruits of this tree. When hunters desire these birds, they will gather near to this tree. Fuel: The dried wood of this tree is used as a firewood.

Scientific name: Ficus kajewskii?, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

pearl shell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. secondary forest growth (e.g., over a garden site)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

grass skirt fibres

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of plant (ginger?)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

club, used for dancing

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. species of orchid

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Dendrobium mohlianum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

flute

Speaker: Martial Wahe

wasp

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bladder

Speaker: Martial Wahe

place or destination

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

boy (uncircumsized)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Redbreasted wrasse

Example: Photo by BBM Explorer, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

mythological pygmy

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Yellow Oriental Paper Wasp

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

Scientific name: Polistes olivaceus via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

Blotcheye soldierfish, bigscale soldierfish

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

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

Sabre squirrelfish

Example: Photo by Andy A. Lewis / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

n my rib

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. kind of tree

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Thumbprint emperor, blackspot emperor

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

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

n my eye socket

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. tree, 3-4 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Ficus adenosperma, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5154)

Example: To treat broken bones combine two handfuls of Commelina diffusa and 2 handfuls of this whole Orchid. Then take half of that and rub on broken bone area (e.g. leg). The Kastom doctor will then make a cut with a sharp piece of bamboo along break. The bone is then wrapped with the leaf of this orchid, then take the pother half of the mixture, mash in water 1.5 liter, and give person to drink. This treatment will help join bone back together.

Scientific name: Malaxis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

protective magic

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Midnight Snapper

Example: Photo by Richard Ling, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Macolor macularis via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. species of coconut with green nuts

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of fern

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5088)

Example: Leaf used to thatch house. Chew base of stem as sugar cane - it’s sweet.

Scientific name: Miscanthus sinensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. coconut fibrous leaf sheath (used to strain kava)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[napurnapur] n. small sapling, 1.5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3029)

Example: Fuel: Firewood Construction: Used to construct posts for houses. Tools: Wood is used to fashion handles for axes. Hunting: Wood is used to make the limbs of a bow. It is not considered the most suitable wood for this purpose.

Scientific name: Garcinia pseudoguttifera, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. taro

(Bislama) taro

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

canoe parts: bailer

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. small plant with variegated leaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. coconut spathe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

life

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. lower part of coconut leaf stem

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

clay

Speaker: Martial Wahe

spiny sea urchin

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of plant, leaf used for penis wrapper

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of tree (Cerbera odollam) (with poisonous fruit with white sap inside tree and fruit)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5129)

Example: Ornamental plant.

Scientific name: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. inalienable fruit, offspring

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of red soil found in south Tanna

Speaker: Martial Wahe

beach

Speaker: Martial Wahe

meat

Speaker: Martial wahe

barracuda

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Spotted coralgrouper

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

Scientific name: Plectropomus maculatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Australian Lurcher

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

Scientific name: Yoma sabina via inaturalist.org, Speaker: 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

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

South (cardinal direction)

Speaker: Martial wahe

Longspine emperor

Example: Photo by Museum of New Zealand / Te Papa Tongarewa, License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Lethrinus genivittatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n path joining village with nakamal

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. footprint

Speaker: Jean Eskar

planting hole (for banana, taro)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sea

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

kind of seashell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 6 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Claoxylon fallax, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n a type of sea worm

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. wall

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Green jobfish

(Bislama) Salmon Fis

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

Scientific name: Aprion virescens via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Yellowtail scad

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

Scientific name: Atule mate via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Orangespine unicornfish

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

Scientific name: Naso lituratus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Yellowstriped goatfish

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

Scientific name: Upeneus vittatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe