Nafe (Kwamera)

v 1. point; 2. teach, instruct

Speaker: Martial wahe

v dir come from (especially by walking)

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v intr smack lips (as to call a dog)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v tr eat, consume

Speaker: Martial wahe

v use protective magic

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr stop raining, clear

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v see erupwun

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v roll (as a cigarette), roll up (as a mat)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. poison (for example a fish)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. bend down (imperative)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut crab

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I catch a fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. I see

(Bislama) mi look

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Scientific name: Geophila, Speaker: Johnson Noar

child orphans

Speaker: Martial Wahe

sea devil

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

twenty

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sleeping mat made of pandanus

Speaker: Martial Wahe

tribal group name

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Painted Phyllidia

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

Scientific name: Phyllidia picta via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

command to dogs (sic)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of basket woven with young coconut leaves.

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: Johnson Noar

n. tree, 12-13 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3089)

Example: The nut inside of the fruit contains sap. Cut a fruit in half and stick it to a person’s arm, and then take it off, put earth on the place where the sap is, and it makes a temporary tatoo that lasts for 3-4 days. This fruit is the best flying fox food, and when the tree has ripe fruits many flying foxes go there to feed, and hunters know this. The fruits are eaten by people as well.

Scientific name: Burckella obovata, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. lemon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4233)

Example: 1. The inner skin of the stem is used to weave grass skirts and nambas. 2. Pidgeons eat the fruits.

Scientific name: Wikstroemia indica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of yam, has a round root, with white, soft, sweet flesh

Example: Only used for making lap-lap

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

coconut fruit bud

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of sugarcane

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5115)

Example: Hardwood, for carving. For building house posts. If wood is dry when it is wet outside, this wood will light and burn faster than any other wood (due to high sap content).

Scientific name: Guettarda speciosa, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. inalienable small side tubers off a main root tuber; small yam tubers

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of sweet potato

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sweet potato that is planted close to yams

Speaker: Martial Wahe

part of sea shell, (snail operculum), Pacific cat’s eye

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[ganhɨn] penis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. bird trap (pyramidal structure made of wild cane)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. a fruit with yellow skin and red seeds, edible, grows on low vines

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: Martial Wahe

Marbled parrotfish, seagrass parrortfish

Example: Photo Philippe Bourjon / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Leptoscarus vaigiensis via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut development stage 2

Example: Drinking nut (with soft meat and effervescent water)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. almond, Canarium indicum

Speaker: Jean Pascal 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

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

mud

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

brain coral

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n fire

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5097)

Example: This tree is planted to mark the area of a Nakamal. Young roots used as bowstring..

Scientific name: Ficus prolixa, Speaker: Johnson Noar

[næhɨr] n. well branched tree, 10 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3111)

Example: People use trunk for houseposts as the stem is very straight. The stem also can be used for firewood.

Scientific name: Syzygium myriadenum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[naswajoʊ] n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3108)

Scientific name: Ficus, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. sparsely branched tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3005)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Construction: The timber of this plant is used to createany part of a house. It is considered a strong wood. Medicine: This plant is used to treat muscle soreness. It can be prepared in tow ways. One way is to boil and branch of leaves and then bathe (“swim”) with the resulting water. Another way is to heat a branch over a fire and rub on sore area for approximately 1 minute, after showering. Note: This plant is recognized as similar to M. latifolia. However, the medicinal action of this plant is regarded as inferior to the former.

Scientific name: Melicope bonwickii, Speaker: Martial Wahe

High Hill

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nəfwe:ŋ] n. tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2985)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Construction: The timber of this plant is used to create roof members of local houses. It is not considered a strong wood.

Scientific name: Macaranga dioica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5106)

Example: If someone has swollen legs or arms, like from bruises or boils, crush leaves and rub on the swollen area twice a day for 1 week, or until sores disappear. For anemia, take a double handful of leaves, squeeze into 1 L water, and drink one bottle three day for 2 weeks.

Scientific name: Plectranthus scutellarioides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

[nəfkafa:i] n. liana growing on trunk of hedycarya dorstenioides, in dense forest along ridge. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3009)

Example: Animal Feed: The green leaves of this plant are used to feed pigs. Hunting: The inner part of the long dry rhizome is woven to create a pidgeon trap.

Scientific name: Epipremnum pinnatum, Speaker: Jean Pascal 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

pig killing stick

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5114)

Example: Weave bark fiber to make slings, grass skirt for ladies, hats and baskets. To do this, rett outer bark in sea for 1 week to rot everything but the fiber, take remaining fiber, dry in sun and use as a fiber for weaving.

Scientific name: Hibiscus tilliaceus, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. well branched tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3149)

Example: When young boys are circumcized, the leaf is mashed and rubbed on the skin of the boys who are sleeping in the nakamal--and mix with coconut oil to help hold it on the body. Said to help the person have better, smoother skin.

Scientific name: Murraya, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. kind of tree with stinging leaves (Semecarpus vitiensis)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. 1. yam, 2. year, annual cycle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n nipple

Speaker: Martial wahe

beard

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5157)

Example: When young baby is loosing weight, give young tops--cooked-- to mother to eat for one month to help increase milk. You can also scrape a handful of inner bark of Ficus kajewskii (5163) into small pieces with a knife, mix with a handful of the young tops of (5157) in 1L of water and cook it, and squeeze the juice into a bottle. Drink one cup twice daily for one month to help a mother who is not providing enough milk for her baby. Kids put inflorescences in hair as a sort of rasta fashion.

Scientific name: Boehmeria macrophylla, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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

Scientific name: Barringtonia edulis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shelf, yam bed

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

his heart

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bird basket snare

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree (used for hosue rafters)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

boat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of green coconut

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Ember parrotfish, redlip parrotfish

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

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

cousin (mother’s sister’s child, father’s brother’s child)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[pinerew] Red-Bellied Fruit Dove

Example: Sub-adult Red-bellied Fruit Dove. Photo by Papier K / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Scientific name: Ptilinopus greyii, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Claret-breasted Fruit Dove

Scientific name: Ptilinopus viridis lewisii, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[ramasi] n. to smoke

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n. the first shoot of any young plant

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. woman’s or men’s grass skirt (women’s are longer, men’s shorter)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my canine tooth

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. part, piece (see ringinimwa)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

candy

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my nostril

Speaker: Martial wahe

arm

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n star path

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. cicatrix, mark

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. platform for sitting under

Speaker: Martial Wahe

braided coconut husk rope

Speaker: Martial Wahe

small shoot or sprout of a plant

Speaker: Martial Wahe

father

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of yam, edible

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of shell. Possibly family Turbinidae.

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, Dec. 2017

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bat, flying mammal

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub, 2-3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3085)

Example: The leaves of this plant are used to cover the hot stone ovens when cooking lap-lap. The ripe fruit is used to burn as a lap. Take the seeds, impale on the fiber in the middle of a coconut leaf pinnae and light, holding the slender stick and lighting a person’s way.

Scientific name: Ricinus communis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n slug species, snail species

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Bluespine unicornfish

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

Cinnabar goatfish

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

Scientific name: Parupeneus heptacanthus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Dash-and-dot goatfish

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

Scientific name: Parupeneus barberinus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe