Nafe (Kwamera)

v push down, poke down

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v gum (as one’s food)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr dead

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr see

Speaker: Martial wahe

v gargle, rinse one’s mouth

Speaker: Martial wahe

v var. of -rukwahagɨn

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v mix together (foods), eat two foods at one

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v see -ata apɨg

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v cheer, jeer (as a football team)

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v 1. tie up, attach, bind, wrap in leaves (as food to bake), wear (something tied on); 2. carry on a pole with a man taking each end, carry on one’s back

Speaker: Martial wahe

v swing, oscillate

Speaker: Wahe Martial

adj. slippery

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. well branched tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3091)

Example: The leaf can be used to wrap food for carrying, for example, wrapping up crabs.

Scientific name: Dillenia biflora, Speaker: Martial Wahe

I drink kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I paddle a canoe

(Bislama) mi baddle le kenou

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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boy

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of taro

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: Emmanuel Maasi

Eastern Barn Owl

Example: Photo by Christopher Watson, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Scientific name: Tyto javanica delicatula, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Common Myna

Example: Photos by Byron Chin / Flickr, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Acridotheres tristis, 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

wooden spool for fishing line

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Whitespotted grouper

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

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

[krawasi] n. we (two) are smoking

Speaker: Jean Eskar

kind of breadfruit, produces a long breadfruit that tastes very good

Example: The stem of the tree is good for making a canoe

Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

num six

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of impromptu basket made of fern leaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

oval handled basket

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n vent in Yasur crater

Speaker: Martial Wahe

pearl shell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kwankəsikəp] n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2988)

Example: Clothing: The bark of this plant is peeled and sundried (~2 days) to be woven into Nambas.

Scientific name: Wikstroemia indica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n barnacle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. a secondary sprout or shoot (of a plant)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

upraised coral

Speaker: Martial Wahe

basket, flat with two handles

Speaker: Martial Wahe

noun a dried leaf used to ceremonially wrap kava root

Example: see more on Youtube

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

Bluefin trevally (male) (reef fish)

Example: Photo by Jan Messersmith, License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Caranx melampygus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Scarlet soldierfish

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

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

Milkfish

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

Scientific name: Chanos chanos via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Streamlined spinefoot, forktail rabbitfish (salt water)

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

Scientific name: Siganus argenteus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Orange-spotted emperor, yellowtail emperor

Example: Photo by FAO / Fishbase, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

n. kind of fern, edible, often fried or boiled with milk

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nakne̤ruk] n. tree, 12-14 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3131)

Example: When this plant flowers, people hunt flying fox as they like to chew on this flower. When you see it in flower, people know that taro is ready to be harvested.

Scientific name: Geissois denhamii, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

names

(Bislama) nem blo hem

Speaker: Martial Wahe

sleep, sleepiness

Speaker: Martial Wahe

stratus cloud

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

[neri] n. herb to 1.5 m tall, flowers white (collection: Michael J. Balick #4722)

Example: This plant is used to welcome people by weaving the leaves and flowers into a head lei, locally known as a Kuanari. If there are no flowers, people weave the leaves and use these to welcome visitors. This species is becoming an invasive in the area.

Scientific name: Hedychium coronarium, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

leaf worn on head

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. herbs, 1.5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3229)

Example: When performing the kastom ceremony "toka dance" the leaves are wrapped in a band and tied on the head of dancers.

Scientific name: Alpinia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

knot made of vine and holding together posts of cyclone house

Speaker: Martial Wahe

breast

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my waist

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. well branched tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3125)

Example: Children from Tanna and throughout Vanuatu use this plant to make a slingshot. As a "medicine," when chickens are ruining your garden, if you plant this plant it will chase away the chickens.

Scientific name: Ervatamia orientalis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

[nafare rota] n. tree, 5 m tall with 3 branches (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3097)

Example: The leaves are woven to make mats, hats, baskets, fans. When pollen is released from the flower it is said that fish in the sea are healthy. The roots are used for tying things, pound pieces of root and strip them off and weave into rope. A person can cut a root in a way that makes a brush to paint grass skirts and other objects. This rope can also be used to tie various leaves that are used to cover lap-lap. The leaves can be harvested, the fiber removed and woven into rope.

Scientific name: Pandanus macrocarpus, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. epiphyte growing on cyathea trunk, growing along garden trail. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3066)

Example: This plant is used to reduce the pain of toothache. Take the stem and peel it, remove the bark and place the bark against a sore tooth. Keep it is place, until the person feels better. Can use this treatment 2-3 times. It is said to "take the pain away." The tooth may rot away naturally, but this is good for the pain that accompanies toothache. The dried fruits and seeds of the plant can be mixed with pig food, such as coconut, and when the female pigs eat it, they will not have piglets. This is said to be used when a person has too many pigs.

Scientific name: Cyrtandra cymosa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sparsely branched shrub, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3081)

Example: The leaves of this plant are warmed over a fire and put warm on the legs of a person who is cold or has a headache, such as from a fever that comes with the flu. See 3076 for additional comments on this technique.

Scientific name: Acalypha wilkesiana, Speaker: Martial Wahe

plant used to make grass skirts

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree with edible leaves and fruit (species of fig)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. Croton sp.

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of parasitic plant

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. fork of a tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. fern

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nisi apram] n. tree to 3 m, dbh 4 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4727)

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. 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 make you sick, a person can bathe with the leaves of this plant ...

Scientific name: Euodia hortensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. tree with edible fruits

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Terminalia catappa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

spring of water

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5033)

Example: Young leaves edible, boil with water or cook in coconut milk. Cook fruit in boiling water, then cook in coconut milk. Cook fruits for 6-10 minutes. He was taught this by his grandparents who showed him how to eat wild plants; his grandfather wasa historically significant person in the Port Resolution area, especially in reference to medicine.

Scientific name: Ficus wassa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

digging stick

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nɨhi yesur] riverbed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of plant, leaf used for penis wrapper

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

coconut fruit stalk

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of kava with many small branches

Speaker: Martial Wahe

reef, growing coral

Speaker: Martial Wahe

hurricane

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. axe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n swordfish

Speaker: 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

Yellowband parrotfish

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

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

good afternoon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

my mother died

(Bislama) mami blo mi det

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[tras] n. shrub to 1 m tall, flowers red. Ornamental plant in homestead garden. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4735)

Example: Ornamental plant

Scientific name: Rosa chinensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

fruit, edible green

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. small flying fox

Speaker: Martial Wahe

type of traditional dance

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. cutting of leaves or top portion of taro or sugarcane stalk set aside for replanting

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n cocoon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

echo

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Bulbnose Unicornfish, Humpnose Unicornfish

Example: Photo by Jean-Lou Justine / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Naso tonganus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Ocellated eagle ray

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

Scientific name: Aetobatus ocellatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Pink whipray

Example: Photo by zsispeo, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Himantura fai via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

I sleep

(Bislama) mi silip

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial wahe