Nafe (Kwamera)

v knead, mx by hand, grope

Speaker: Martial wahe

v var. of -arak(i)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. sew, weave, string beads, shuffle; 2. choke, strangle

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v swing, oscillate

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v. plant modifier word used with yam ("nuk")

Speaker: Martial Wahe

feed pig

Speaker: Martial wahe

n airport

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I drink water

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I pick the fruit tree of all the fruit

(Bislama) mi pikimap fuit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

mullet

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Iatukwei village

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. English

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: Martial Wahe

your headache (pain)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n antenna of insect

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Common bluestripe snapper

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

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

kind of shell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

head

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5072)

Example: House posts, rafters, good for building in Tanna. Scrape stem in cup and squeeze with water into a glass to give someone with heavy menstrual bleeding. 1 stem to fill a cup, mix with water, 1 liter /day for 7 days. Shark causes bleeding, maybe the person ate too much shark. This will solve that. This plant is called "medicine of the shark".

Scientific name: Melicope, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. thunder

Speaker: Martial Wahe

brown

Speaker: Martial wahe

name of a moiety

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. species of liana

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Piper austrocaledonicum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of plantain

Example: Used for cooking and lap-lap

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Martial Wahe

Triton’s Trumpet

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

Scientific name: Charonia tritonis via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. low-growing herb, growing in dense forest heavily impacted by cyclone. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3259)

Example: When a person has diarrhea with blood (dysentery) , this is the plant medicine used to treat it. Take leaves and squeeze juice into a cup of water and give this to the person who is ill. One teaspoon for young children and for an adult 1 full cup in the morning each day until fully cured.

Scientific name: Hemigraphis reptans, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5045)

Example: If a person comes to your garden and tries to spoil it with a special leaf by rubbing it on his foot and walking around or rubbbing it on a stick and tossing it into a garden, take 8 branches of this species (MB 5045) and put 2 in each corner of a new garden. If branches are placed when the garden is planted, it will not be spoiled by this black magic. To stop having children chew 4 pieces of young stem 2 in. long. 2 times daily for one week and the woman will no longer have children.

Scientific name: Desmodium incanum, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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

Matsudaira’s Storm Petrel

Example: Photo by Tony Morris, License: CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Oceanodroma matsudaira, 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: Martial Wahe

n. type of impromptu basket made of fern leaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. rope, vine, genealogical line

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

initial stage of coconut development

Example: Coconut fruit bud

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of taro

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. parasitic epiphyte growing on roots of trees

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Balanophora fungosa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. Garcinia pancheri, 2. kind of introduced fruit tree with elongated, green fruit

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Red-bellied Fruit Dove

Scientific name: Ptilinopus greyii, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of manioc with a yellowish flesh (i.e., curry)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Quoy’s parrotfish

Example: Photo by zsispeo, License: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Scarus quoyi via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[manariən nəʔpəŋ] n. shrub, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2971)

Example: Cultural: After a young boy is circumcised, a special kava (“Tapuga”) is prepared. The leaf of this tree is then tied to each branch of the tree to signify the ceremony.

Scientific name: Maoutia diversifolia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of mango, can be eaten when the skin is green

Scientific name: Mangifera indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Yellow Oriental Paper Wasp

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

Scientific name: Polistes olivaceus via inaturalist.org, 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

Rough triggerfish, spotted oceanic triggerfish, oceanic triggerfish

Example: 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

type of ceremony

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[napeɨn] n. machete marks on tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5027)

Example: Leaves are used as pig feed to make them grow faster. fed to pigs to make them grow faster. Various butterflied can also get stuck on this plant, so bird’s can also get stuck when trying to eat these insects and can then be hunted or collected.

Scientific name: Pisonia umbellifera, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5130)

Example: This is male variety used to build the foundation of the house, to make the timbers for the floor (joist) and put Veitchia arecina (MB 4707) strips on top. Also used for crossbeams for roof of house. Planted in village to provide shade.

Scientific name: Ficus glandifera, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n lava flow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of banana

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of taro, has white flesh. The leaf petiole is dark red

Example: Only used for roasting

Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5126)

Scientific name: Phymatosorus scolopendria, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n adopted child

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of wild yam

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

[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 in dense forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2991)

Example: Hunting: Flying foxes are attracted to this plant for their flowers. As a result, hunters gather around this plant when they desire to hunt the flying fox.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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. taro

(Bislama) taro

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree to 30 m, dbh 2 m (collection: Michael J. Balick #4738)

Example: Wood is strong and good to make houses with, particuarly house posts. Also good for firewood.

Scientific name: Casuarina equisetifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5095)

Example: In times of disaster, can roast root in fire like sweet potatoe 20 min--chew the root to get the sweet tasting food and spit out fiber.

Scientific name: Pueraria montana, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

[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. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5158)

Example: When a person is stung by a jellyfish, take 5-6 leaves and whip the sore for 5-10 minutes and this will reduce the soreness of the wound.

Scientific name: Ipomoea pes-caprae, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. liana growing into the canopy of dense forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3046)

Example: Agricultural: When it is time to harvest the first crop of yam (~ April 1st), the 1st yam (’Nuk’) is put inside the hole from where it was harvested with one or two green leaves of this plant.

Scientific name: Oxera lehuntei, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nuas] island cabbage

Speaker: Martial Wahe

creek

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of taro with yellow flesh

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nəkwa̤j reje] n. small tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3132), used to make fishing spears, and used to make small house posts that support thatch roof

Example: Straight stem used for spear shaft

Scientific name: Tapeinosperma, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe, Martial Wahe

n. wild kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree, with edible green fruit with sweet milky white flesh, collected wild and eaten on Tanna

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my eyebrows

Speaker: Martial wahe

fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nɨpunɨpun] spider web

Speaker: Martial Wahe

hole, burrow, cave

Speaker: Martial Wahe

eclipse (lunar?)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree with sticky fruit, fruit is not eaten by people, only by birds

Speaker: Martial Wahe

foam

Speaker: Martial Wahe

meat

Speaker: Martial wahe

Great Eggfly

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

Scientific name: Hypolimnas bolina via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of taro, has white flesh

Example: Is a soft taro variety good for boiling or roasting. It grows very tall

Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

directional term: when facing the sea, to one’s right

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

good afternoon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. the first shoot of any young plant

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my baby teeth (deciduous teeth)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n my canine tooth

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5022)

Example: The hard stem is used for house posts. To protect food in the earth oven from burning, use the peeled bark in large pieces to either wrap around banana leaves or as an extra layer.

Scientific name: Trema cannabina, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

daylight

(Bislama) delaet

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5040)

Example: Fruits edible. People drinking kava eat a fruit after drinking. Say that it makes kava stronger. Boil leaves with Euodia (MJB 5031) when a person has a strong cough to cure it. Double handful of each plant in 1 liter water and boil for 20 minutes. Wash your with it and drink 1 cup in evening (cold) for 4 days.

Scientific name: Annona muricata, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n honeycomb

Speaker: Martial wahe

[suku] n. type of mushroom

Speaker: Jean Eskar

I fight you, you gonna pee

(Bislama) bae mi faetem you bae you pispis.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

sea snake black and white

roots of pandanus

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[topasiwɨr] n. large herb, growing at edge of garden. Bracts red. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3071)

Example: People use this to cover or wrap banana and cassava prior to cooking in a boiling pot; when the food is cooked the leaf is discarded. Flowers used for decoration. This is an imported cultivated plant.

Scientific name: Heliconia indica, Speaker: Jean Pascal 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. kind of tree used for making house posts, has white fruit that birds like to eat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[waɨsaisa] small devil with big penis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe