Nafe (Kwamera)

v paint (especially one’s face during ceremonial events)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. hold (food) in a leaf (as do circumcised boys while in seclusion), shield so as not to pollute

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Martial wahe

v work, produce, enlarge or improve (as one’s resources)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr 1. go, walk, be in motion; 2. be unmarried; 3. shine (as the sun)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v tr eat, consume

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr 1. start, be suprised by; 2. transplant, dig up (as a plant), scrape out (as used tobacco from a pipe)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr twitch, jerk about (as a dying fish), slither (as a snake), flop about

Speaker: Martial wahe

v var. of -rukwahagɨn

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v intr laugh

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr fall, drop (numerous objects)

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v lead (as an animal), tie a rope around to lead, drive, drive on

Speaker: Wahe Martial

kill dog

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. intransitive walk downhill

Speaker: Martial Wahe

dig the soil

Speaker: Martial wahe

I drink kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I read a book

(Bislama) mi ridim book

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of seaweed

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Aneityum

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[jerema se menari] jungle devil

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. a minor kava drinking place, see imwarɨm

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my ass (buttocks)

Speaker: Martial wahe

Giant Golden Orbweaver

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

Scientific name: Nephila pilipes via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

Plicate Nerite

Example: via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Nerita plicata via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

digging stick, taro planting stick

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of shellfish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrubs with long erect stems. white flowers on long pendulous hairy inflorescences (10-15 cm), white flowers with yellowish calyx and long peduncle. Leaves with long petioles (about 5 cm) (collection: Laurence Ramon #328)

Scientific name: Cyrtandra sp1, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. tree, small

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Meryta neo-ebuca, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my spine

Speaker: Martial wahe

Cardinal Honeyeater

Scientific name: Myzomela cardinalis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my jaw

Speaker: Martial wahe

Sclater’s Myzomela, Scarlet-bibbed Myzomela

Scientific name: Myzomela sclateri, Speaker: Martial Wahe

section of house thatching

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Glossy Swiftlet

Scientific name: Collocalia esculenta, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n social moiety

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5099)

Example: Fruits edible and sold in market to earn money.

Scientific name: Dracontomelon vitiense, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5034)

Example: Stems can be used as a broom when tied in bunch. When a young woman does not want to have children, she can chew these leaves for one week, spit out fibers and swallow the leaf residue. If she chews four branches of leaves per treatment, two times a day, for one week, she will stay barren for 5-6 years.

Scientific name: Sida cordifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

[kwanokuma] n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2976)

Example: No use disclosed.

Scientific name: Melastoma malabathricum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n kind of shellfish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. secondary forest growth (e.g., over a garden site)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[kwanəraj] n. tree, 6-7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3101)

Example: People use this plant as a medicine to treat bad knees. Peel the bark, take 1 handful and put it in a cup of water until the water becomes black. Drink it 3x daily as needed until the knee pain disappears and the knee heals. Children use the seeds as a glue in school work.

Scientific name: Cordia dichotoma, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5147)

Example: Ripe fruits applied to paper and used as glue.

Scientific name: Cordia dichotoma, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. kind of fungus, brown color when old or white color when young, can be fried and eaten

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of seashell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sweet potato

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of sugarcane

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[ganhɨm] your penis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Dark capped parrotfish

Example: Photo by Andrew J. Green / Reef Life Survey, License: CC BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Scarus oviceps 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

Bluelined squirrelfish, Tahitian squirrelfish

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

Scientific name: Sargocentron tiere via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Pink squirrelfish

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

Scientific name: Sargocentron tiereoides via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

chicken

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n sunrise

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. kind of banana

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of tree (bark used as rope)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5112)

Example: To make rain, take four branches, mixed with Zingiber zerumbet (5078). Leave for one week until it rots and smells bad. Move it to the land and it will rain. Leaf is used to stop lightning and thunder. Take four leaves mash, cut a forked stick of Natchy (5019) take outer bark off, put in fire to warm it, wrap with leaf, put in ffront of you in ground and when lightning is coming break off the fork and the thunder will stop. Children eat the fruits.

Scientific name: Maesa ambrymensis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5155)

Example: Young leaves are edible. Cook with meat and vegetables or boil leaves and mix with coconut milk.

Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. tree, 6 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Alphitonia zizyphoides, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. coconut

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. puffball

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree with small white flowers

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. herb, 2.5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3082)

Example: To make a strap to hold the ornamental fiber "Nisei" (Plunkett et al #3077) on a person’s arm. Dry the stem, remove the fibers, and weakve into a strap. There is a legend that is told about this plant, concerning a rat and a fox. The rat and fox stole a banana from the Devil’s garden. The Devil caught the fox and told him not to come back. The rat said "lets go to the garden" and teh fox said no. The rat said "go take these leaves, and tie the leaves with coconut fiber--and he told the fox to lie down and the rat sewed the leaaves on the fox. So, the rat an

Scientific name: Donax canniformis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

[nasasa] n. banyan growing next to house along main path. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3150)

Example: The bark of this tree is used to make a kastom strap, particularly worn in the Toka Dance, where people have different ranks, and the kastom belt of this bark shows a person’s rank.

Scientific name: Ficus cf. tinctoria, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5038)

Example: Fruits edible when ripe. The stem is used for timber and sawn timber. Flowers attract fruit bats. Hunters, knowing this, hunt the bats at night.

Scientific name: Syzygium malaccense, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. breadfruit

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2972)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Fish Poison: To help catch fish, a bundle of leaves are squeezed and placed in a stream. After some time, the fish appear stunned and are caught.

Scientific name: Leucosyke australis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. rain

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[ne̤wo] n. tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3079)

Example: Used to treat pain. When a baby has an injection in the hospital, such as a vaccine, people take 1 handful of leaves, boil in a small amount of water to concentrate the resulting "juice" that comes out of the leaves, and put this fluid on the site of the pain, the injection, covering it with a leaf for 5-10 minutes, 2-3x daily until the baby stops crying.

Scientific name: Hibiscus tiliaceus, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of parasitic plant

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. shrub, 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3258)

Example: A sharpened stick made from this plant is used to take the husk off of coconuts. The wood of this plant is used to make a child’s bow--carve the bark off and bend it with a string made from the banyon (Ficus) tree to both ends of the bow.

Scientific name: Acalypha grandis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. large grass, growing in disturbed forest/garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3104)

Example: When thatching a house, put the coconut leaves on the crossbars, and then push the stem of this plant into the coconut leaves and bend them over to hold the coconut leaves. Use the stems of this plant as a support for yam vines. Use the stem to make arrows.

Scientific name: Miscanthus sinensis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5017)

Example: Collect young leaves and boil in water or fry it and eat as a cabbage. To cover fish for cooking, take petiole with many leaves and bend to cover fish and put in sauce pan. When cooked eat fish and leaves.

Scientific name: Polyscias cumingiana, Speaker: Martial Wahe

machete

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5142)

Example: Children collect young leaves to decorate their exercise books in school. If a person does not want to get too drunk on kava, they will chew 3 leaves before drinking, and spit out remains while swallowing the juice. This plant has the power to reduce effects of Kava.

Scientific name: Adiantum diaphanum, Speaker: Johnson Noar

menstruation

Speaker: Martial Wahe

afternoon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. terrestrial; leaves dimorphic, ca. 0.6-0.7 m long. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2615)

Example: 1. A locally revered kestrel, known as tikurkak, makes its bed with the fronds of this fern.

Scientific name: Austroblechnum melanoaulon, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Numrukwen moiety

Speaker: Martial Wahe

canoe parts: outrigger spar, boom

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. coconut spathe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, growing in disturbed forest/garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3105)

Example: People eat the young leaves, boiling them in water until they are soft and ready to eat. Or, the green leaves are edible when raw, put coconut flesh and salt in the leaf and eat.

Scientific name: Ficus wassa, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. kind of tree (var. of kƗrha)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

air

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut leaf stalk

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of liana

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of banyan tree, bark used for tapa cloth

Speaker: Martial Wahe

White-freckled surgeonfish

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

Scientific name: Acanthurus maculiceps via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Japanese large-eye bream

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

Scientific name: Gymnocranius euanus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

alien (from another island, country)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[posokoni] lightning that stuns or kills fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

how are you?

(Bislama) osem wanem yufala oraet ?

Speaker: Martial Wahe

throw the stone

(Bislama) sakem stone

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of skink (green)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

second (unit of time)

Speaker: Martial wahe

[tamekɨn] notches cut into tree trunk, either as marking or foothold

Speaker: Martial Wahe

earth, soil

Speaker: Martial Wahe

your big belly

(Bislama) big bel

Speaker: Martial Wahe

echo

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Little spinefoot, scribbled rabbitfish

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

Scientific name: Siganus spinus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe