Nafe (Kwamera)

adj. be spoiled, rotten, stink (as food)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr 1. explore, go off into the unknown, search; 2. be confused, worried

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr live, stay at, exist at

Speaker: Martial wahe

v spit

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v see -rupwegi

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. prepare, make ready (implies secrecy?); 2. act alone or anti-socially, avoid agreement

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v stare, glare at

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v intr hop (on one foot)

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v 1. sit, sit down; 2. be at, exist at

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. stand (imperative)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Bislama

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of cassava. The skin of the root of this variety is red

Scientific name: Manihot esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

buoy used to float fishing nets (Bislama?)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n airport

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Longfin African conger, moustache conger

Example: Photo by Patrick Randall, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Conger cinereus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I paddle a canoe

(Bislama) mi badel lo kawenu

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of seaweed

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. English

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Rough triggerfish, poisonous

Example: A poison fish which can sometimes be eaten. Photo by Ross Robertson / Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific online information system, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Canthidermis maculata via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

old grandparents

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Humpback red snapper, paddletail

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

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

n. long basket made of coconut leaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kapuapu] n. green salamander

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of sweet potato

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n kind of bird (collared fantail)

Scientific name: Rhipidura fulginosa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

bat (flying fox)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Trigger fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5153)

Example: To make tattoo, draw design and then take youngest emerging stem and rub along design. Follow design and it will burn a design in your skin. Birds eat fruits as do fruit bats.

Scientific name: Alchornea scandens, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Threepot squirrelfish

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

Scientific name: Sargocentron cornutum via FishBase, 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

White-streaked grouper (deep sea)

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

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

n. canarium nut fruit (variant 2)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of taro, has reddish-white flesh like a guava fruit, and has a reddish leaf petiole

Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. shrub (1 to 1,5 m) (collection: Laurence Ramon #322)

Scientific name: Hanslia ormocarpoides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Blue sea chub, snubnose chub, topsail drummer

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

Scientific name: Kyphosus cinerascens via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n sea anemone

Speaker: Martial Wahe

initial stage of coconut development

Example: Coconut fruit bud

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kwankukepu] n. liana growing into canopy of Myristica fatua tree, growing in forest along kwataren kastom road. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3092)

Example: The vine of this plant is used to tie an outrigger on to a canoe. Heat up the stem and peel off the outer bark; while it is still warm use it to tie an outrigger to the canoe. When the stem cools it becomes very hard. It is also used to tie sugar cane.

Scientific name: Smilax vitiensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of banyan tree (var. of ruviru)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of sugarcane, small, yellow in color

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. paper

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. coconut leaf roof thatching

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Jean Eskar

butterfly fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nakanakan] n. terrestrial herb, 0.5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3069)

Example: People use this to treat boils on the skin. Squeeze the "juice" of the leaf on the boil, and it will soften it so that the liquid inside the boil comes out. If you chew an amount of leaves first, then they will cover and stick to the boil so it will heal faster.

Scientific name: Ageratum conyzoides, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. plant (to be identified)

(Bislama) nalalas

Speaker: Phillip Wahe

n. stage 1 in the development of coconuts, very small, not ready to eat or for any other use

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. herb to 2-3 m tall in secondary forest clearing, flowers white with yellow-red corolla. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4724)

Example: this plant is used to make the head lei, Kuanari, to welcome visitors. It is also used as an ornamental around local houses.

Scientific name: Alpinia speciosa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

daylight, sunshine

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my vein

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. plant; giant fern

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Angiopteris evecta, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[narwaperien] lightning

Speaker: Martial Wahe

valley, ravine

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. medicinal leaves applied to circumcision wounds

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5138)

Example: Remove base from flower and chew flower--tastes sweet. Long ago there were no pens, you could use this flower to write message on wood.

Scientific name: Malvaviscus arboreus, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. large, well branched tree (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4240)

Example: 1. A locally revered kestrel, known as tikurkak, makes it’s nest with the leaves.

Scientific name: Weinmannia denhamii, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5031)

Example: For Kastom ceremonies, use this plant to decorate the roots of Kava that is given to a chief. Also used in women’s grass skirt for kastom dance. When young girls are getting their first period (menstruation), they wear a grass skirt from this plant to be fragrant (in order to cover any blood smell).

Scientific name: Euodia hortensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub to 1.5 m, flowers white (collection: Michael J. Balick #4728)

Example: The leaves of this plant are used to make a women’s grass skirt. Men use these leaves to put in a band around the arm as decoration. These leaves are also used to tie a kava root for a ceremony in the nakamal. For kastom ceremony, take coconut endosperm, chew with this leave and covery body. It makes the body smell very nice. When a person has a fever, mix this leaf with other leaves including Annona muricata and Citrus species. Then the person sits over a steaming pot and inhales it to reduce the fever and symptoms. If you need to go to a "tabu" place, where the spirit can mak

Scientific name: Euodia hortensis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5031)

Example: For Kastom ceremonies, use this plant to decorate the roots of Kava that is given to a chief. Also used in women’s grass skirt for kastom dance. When young girls are getting their first period (menustration), they wear a grass skirt from this plant to be fragrant (in order to cover any blood smell).

Scientific name: Euodia hortensis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. tree, 8 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Fagraea berteroana, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3010)

Example: Construction: The timber of this plant is used as a hardwood for any part of a house. It is considered one of the finest woods for this purpose. Ornamental: Branches of this tree are used to create carvings.

Scientific name: Fagraea berteroana, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

my hair

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of banyan with small leaves, Ficus sp.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my gums (of mouth)

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Example: Ornamental plant.

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

ashes

Speaker: Martial Wahe

yam trellis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

fruit stalk (as on a banana)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

season of the year when yams are growing, before yam harvest (Oct. through March)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

traditional stone axe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Globehead parrotfish

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

Scientific name: Scarus globiceps via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & 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

Lined Surgeonfish; small, blue and yellow striped

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

Scientific name: Acanthurus lineatus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of Tahitian chestnut

Speaker: Martial Wahe

good afternoon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

salt sea water

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n high tide

Speaker: Martial wahe

[rɨŋkew] n. understory tree growing in area of Ianarawia ("high hill") settlement (village of Philip Wahe). (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3154)

Example: This tree is poisonous to goats, cattle-if they eat it they will die. The wood is used to make rafters for houses as well as burned as firewood.

Scientific name: Trema cannabina, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2992)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Hunting: Pidgeons are known to eat the fruit of this plant. As a result, hunters will cluster about these trees to hunt this animal. Construction: The timber of the plant is used to make roof members of local houses.

Scientific name: Parasponia andersonii, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

hole for house post

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

hill

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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: Martial Wahe

rope made of braided coconut husks

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of banana, large green plantain

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

culture figure name, an ogre

Speaker: Martial Wahe

place name: the highest mountain on Tanna Island

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n Short-tailed Shearwater or Slender-billed Shearwater, a.k.a. mutton bird

Scientific name: Puffinus tenuirostris, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree used for making house posts, has white fruit that birds like to eat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

club, used for dancing

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n cocoon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n tidal pool, salt evaporation pool

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable 1. classifier word for supporting aerial roots (as of a banyan, pandanus), 2. thorn

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Sleek unicornfish (deep sea)

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

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

Bluespine Unicornfish, silver color with horn

Scientific name: Naso unicornis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial wahe

my elder sisiter;s husband

Speaker: Wahe Martial

bed

Speaker: Martial Wahe