Nafe (Kwamera)

v wear a hat, cover (something)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v curse

Speaker: Martial wahe

v mount, reach the summit of a hill, come out on top, be on top

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr urinate

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v intr have diarrhoea

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v/a level, flat (as ground)

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v reflect, mirror, look in a mirror

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v shadow, shade, eclipse, block light

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anywhere

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v. to clean brush, sweep or weed a garden, to clean for preparation, like kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v shut the door

(Bislama) sarem door

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v look down or shut our eyes we pray

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. to make twine, by twirling between the fingers

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. intransitive walk downhill

Speaker: Martial Wahe

turtle shell

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for the ( hern him...)

(Bislama) fakem

Speaker: Martial Wahe

morning star

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Striped ponyfish

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

Scientific name: Leiognathus fasciatus, Aurigequula fasciatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

hour

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name of language spoken in South-west Tanna

Speaker: Martial Wahe

boy children

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flood

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n. Port Resolution

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type of three pronged fish spear-head

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5108)

Example: When woman does not have period for 2-3 months and is pregnant, people say the lizard could eat the baby. To avoid this, boil a handful of stem shavings in 1/2 L water, for 6 minutes and give this drink to the woman twice a day for 5 days. Then the bleeding will stop. There are also dietary restrictions: no coconut, oil, salt, curry. The woman can also not swim in sea for 5 days. But the baby will be healthy if these instructions are followed.

Scientific name: Achyranthes aspera, Speaker: Johnson Noar

[kapuapu] n. green salamander

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of insect (large, sucks nectar)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my eyelid

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[kasoso] small devil

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n kind of shellfish, possibly abalone

Speaker: Martial Wahe

whirlpool, whirlwind

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traditional woven fan

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n. corn

(Bislama) kon

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Blubberlip snapper

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

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

condom

Speaker: Martial Wahe

num seven

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string game (cat’s cradle)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n star

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n snapper fish

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n. face painting mud

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n. interior house radial long post

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n fish species: possibly lung fish? (is this attested in Vanuatu?)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. plant with sticky leaves and seed pods

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kwarwisiwir] n. epiphyte growing in dense forest. Flowers yellow-orange to bright orange. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3047)

Example: Ornamental: Flowers are used to decorate houses.

Scientific name: Dendrobium, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. banana flower (lit. banana cock)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

area

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ladder (Bislama)

(Bislama) lata

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of sugarcane, small, yellow in color

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Whitetip soldierfish

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

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

Peregrine falcon

Scientific name: Falco peregrinus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nakur] n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2973)

Example: Agricultural: When this plant is in flower, it is said that taro (Nerei) and Ipomoea (Kwarei) are ready to plant.

Scientific name: Boehmeria platyphylla, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of plant

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Ambon emperor

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

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

Longfin emperor

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

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

cousin (mother’s brother’s child)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. taro (Colocasia)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. taro (Colocasia)

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Alpinia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

animal

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5146)

Example: Stem used to make bow. Stem for ax handle.

Scientific name: Allophylus cobbe, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

kind of plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5063)

Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. tree, 15 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3019)

Example: Food: The ripe fruits (yellow or soft green) are consumed. Exudate: The yellow exudate of this plant is used as a light-duty glue.

Scientific name: Garcinia pseudoguttifera, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. medicinal leaves, used to feed pigs to make them grow big, or for male erection

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. root fibre

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n the white of my eye

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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5094)

Example: Leaves gathered to feed pigs.

Scientific name: Ipomoea indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. kind of yam (’sugar yam’)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. epiphyte. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2620)

Scientific name: Davallia sessilifolia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of taro, might be another genus of “taro”. It has a special stone that is specific to this variety

Example: Roasted or boiled for eating

Scientific name: Xanthosoma sagittifolium or Alocacia macrorrhizos, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. terrestrial; leaves 1.0-1.5 m long. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2626)

Scientific name: Hypolepis elegans, Speaker: Martial Wahe

arrowhead, used for hunting fish, fowl or flying fox, traditionally made from black palm, now usually from metal

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[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

[nurap] n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3039)

Example: Fuel: Dried wood of this plant is used as firewood. Not: This plant is considered the mountain form. There is another form, Nowaripen, found near the sea.

Scientific name: Ixora aneityensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. circumcision

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nɨfaŋa] bow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of Tahitian chestnut

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree (used for bows to hunt flying fox, and for traditional medicine), Goats like to eat the leaves.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. mistletoe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

reef, growing coral

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. period of the year preceding the yam harvest (October through March)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree with stinging leaves, devil nettle, (Dendrocnide sp.)

(Bislama) nangalat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of fish with black color

Scientific name: clown unicorn fish, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Forsten’s Parrotfish, Bluepatch Parrotfish

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

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

daughter

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Claret-breasted Fruit Dove

Scientific name: Ptilinopus viridis lewisii, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree with small, compound leaves, used for firewood

Speaker: Martial Wahe

my bad luck (1st person poss.)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

my mother died

(Bislama) mami blo mi det

Speaker: Martial Wahe

car

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Tryon’s Hypselodoris

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

Scientific name: Hypselodoris tryoni via inaturalist.org, 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

n my palm (of hand)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. foreskin

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

n. mangrove

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of fish trap

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

Bluefin trevally (male); powerful fish, with the power of a young cow

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

Scientific name: Caranx melampygus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Yellowtail Scad (female)

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

Scientific name: Atule mate via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe