Nafe (Kwamera)

v intr hoot, screech, call (as a bat), creak

Speaker: Martial wahe

v curse

Speaker: Martial wahe

v snack on, eat (coconut wrapped in fig leaves, for example)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v var. of -arak(i)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v tr wear around neck (as a necklace, neck ornament or tie)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v divide, separate, cut in half, come between (as two fighting men)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr abut, join with, stand on

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v 1. call out, cry out, sound, bark, neigh, ring; 2. cry, weep

Speaker: Martial wahe

v stare, glare at

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v. construct a yam trellis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

buoy used to float fishing nets (Bislama?)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. herb growing on roadside along coast road. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3165)

Scientific name: Portulaca oleracea, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. flood, standing water

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Iatukwei village

Speaker: Martial Wahe

fan-tailed cuckoo

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of banana

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

star pattern

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

traditional road name

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. terrestrial; uncommon. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2610)

Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n my eyelid

Speaker: Martial wahe

n house component (vertical poles supporting thatching)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n kind of bird (collared fantail)

Scientific name: Rhipidura fulginosa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Kawiameta moiety

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of plantain

Example: Used for cooking and lap-lap

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Martial Wahe

n gecko

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Pustulose Wart Slug

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

Scientific name: Phyllidiella pustulosa via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

kind of basket woven with young coconut leaves.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Areolate grouper (deep sea)

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

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

n. weedy vine growing over boulders in dry streambed. Corolla pink turning bluish. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2794)

Scientific name: Desmodium intortum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Orange-spotted grouper

Example: Photo by Ian Shaw / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Epinephelus coioides via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. subshrub, 75 cm tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3236)

Example: This plant is used as a source of fiber to make grass skirts. Gather a lot of stems, place in seawater with a stone on top (the process known as retting) for one month. Collect the stems, pull off the bark and remove the fiber, allowing it to dry in the sun until it bleaches white, when it can be woven into the traditional grass skirt.

Scientific name: Urena lobata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

cow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

after

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[konapwit] n. herb to 50 cm, flowers pink (collection: Michael J. Balick #4721)

Example: This plant is used to treat diarrhea. A person takes 1 handful of leaves, washes the soil off, chews them and gets the juice out of the leaves, spits out the fibers and left over parts of the leaves. Chew this regularly until the diarrhea goes away if a person has a bad case; for a mild case, chew only once. It is said that a person has to "listen to the plant" until the diarrhea stops. It is said to be better for this condition than Psidium (guava).

Scientific name: Desmodium, 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 rock

Speaker: Martial wahe

flute

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut husking stave set in ground

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. kind of luminous lichen, fungus, mushroom, 2. sea sponge, 3. soft corals, 4. comb and wattle of a fowl

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

ladder (Bislama)

(Bislama) lata

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of fern (var. of nƗnhupwi)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Pink squirrelfish

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

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

n. homemade alcohol from kahimaregi coconut water, plus yeast, water, optionally pineapple juice, drunk on special occasions like Christmas

Speaker: Martial Wahe

culture hero name

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5112)

Example: To make rain, take four branches, mixed with Zingiber zerumbet (5078). Leave for one week until it rots and smells bad. Move it to the land and it will rain. Leaf is used to stop lightning and thunder. Take four leaves mash, cut a forked stick of Natchy (5019) take outer bark off, put in fire to warm it, wrap with leaf, put in ffront of you in ground and when lightning is coming break off the fork and the thunder will stop. Children eat the fruits.

Scientific name: Maesa ambrymensis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

my eyes

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. species of coconut with reddish nuts

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of small, white spider

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[natnə̤mi̤ra] n. petrophyte, growing in deep shade (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3115)

Scientific name: (moss), Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. hardwood and fruit tree; taun tree, island lychee

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Pommetia pinnata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. well branched tree, 10-12 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3032)

Example: Construction: The wood of this tree is used as timber wood. Hunting: Flying foxes are known to eat the fruits of this tree. If they are desired, hunters will gather near the tree when fruits are in season. Food: The ripe fruits (black) are consumed occassionally.

Scientific name: Syzygium kajewskii, 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. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5080)

Example: When there are too many rats in house, put a layer of leaves underneath a piece of food in the corner of the house. When the rat steps on the leaf, as the underside is itchy, it will swell the leg of the rat, making it hard for him to move so you can find them in the morning and kill them easily.

Scientific name: Psychotria trichostoma, Speaker: Johnson Noar

nail (Bislama?)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

basalt

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[neke hmup] n. herb to 2 m tall, growing on the edge of a homestead (collection: Michael J. Balick #4723)

Example: This plant is used to lift a person up--take two leaves together and make a "seat" and put it under a person, they can then be lifted up by the two people with a leaf on each side of that person. Use the leaf of this species to wrap rolled leaves of wild tobaco, to protect it and keep it fresh and moist.

Scientific name: Piper methysticum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. shrub, 3-5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3157)

Scientific name: Hibiscus rosasinensis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

when?

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree to 6 m tall, dbh 30 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4726)

Example: Green fruits are edible. To eat the leaves, cook them in boiling water for 5-10 minutes, eat with coconut milk. The younger leaves should be the ones harvested for eating. The leaves can also be used to bake a pig in an earth oven, wrap the leaves around the pig. The wood is good for firewood and a person can start the dried wood with no match. The leaves of this plant can be eaten with another, unspecified leaf to stop vomiting. When the fruits are ripe the flying fox and birds like to eat these fruits.

Scientific name: Ficus, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. fruit, offspring

Speaker: Martial Wahe

mountain beetwen imaki and high hill

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n sunbeam

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. inalienable fruit stalk and fruit (of coconut, Barringtonia edulis)

Scientific name: Barringtonia edulis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nɨhi yesur] riverbed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut fruit stalk

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable small offshoot tubers

Speaker: Martial Wahe

reef, growing coral

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. his/her hair

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n moonbeam

Speaker: Martial wahe

Dark-Banded Fusilier, Neon Fusilier

Example: Photo by Ian Shaw / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Pterocaesio tile via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree used for making house posts

Speaker: Martial Wahe

beach, sand

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. orange (tree)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

word, speech, talking

Speaker: Martial Wahe

beach

Speaker: Martial Wahe

1. night, 2. day (24 hour period)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5145)

Example: Cut branches, dry in the sun until the leaves fall out,and then tie branches together to make broom. Stem used for canoe outrigger.

Scientific name: Murraya paniculata, Speaker: Johnson Noar

bamboo (used to refer to several introduced species)

(Bislama) pampu

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Highfin coralgrouper

Example: Photo by David R / iNaturalist, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

Highfin parrotfish

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

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

Pacific slopehead parrotfish, tan-faced parrotfish

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

Scientific name: Chlorurus frontalis via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. house post outside (

(Bislama) pos

Speaker: Jean Eskar

caterpillar

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of wild mandarin, orange color

Speaker: Martial Wahe

mum, mother

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree growing in house area in village (collection: Michael J. Balick #4719)

Example: This tree is planted by people around household areas to hold embankments and prevent soil from eroding

Scientific name: Ficus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

second (unit of time)

Speaker: Martial wahe

exchange relation

Speaker: Martial Wahe

duck

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Thank you

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Yellowtail barracuda

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

Scientific name: Sphyraena obtusata via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

kind of snail

Speaker: Martial Wahe

rope

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[tuprapwej] n. understory tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3143)

Example: The wood of this tree makes good house posts and is also used as firewood

Scientific name: Claoxylon, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n house component, eaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Yellowspotted Trevally (male)

Example: Photo by David R / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Carangoides fulvuguttatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

I sleep

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5141)

Scientific name: Geophila, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

my elder sisiter;s husband

Speaker: Wahe Martial