Nafe (Kwamera)

adj. prickly (as sugarcane or fig leaves)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v intr look upwards, face upwards (as a playing card)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v var. of -akwai(akwai)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v gum (as one’s food)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. intransitive garden, work in a garden

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr suckle, nurse

Speaker: Martial wahe

v spread to dry (in the sun)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v support, hold up (as a crossbar by two supporting posts)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v spit, spit out (as chewed kava onto a leaf to wait further preparation)

Speaker: Martial wahe

cut my penis( circumsision)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. to fight with

Speaker: Martial Wahe

go fart

Speaker: Martial wahe

Vanuatu

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[ganhɨk] my penis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

maggot

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

collared kingfisher

Scientific name: Todirhamphus chloris, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of laplap

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[ganari] vagina

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Mangrove red snapper, mangrove jack

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

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

Vella Lavella White-Eye

Scientific name: Zosterops vellalavella, Speaker: Martial Wahe

adj. stupid

Speaker: Martial Wahe

belt, lavalava, traditional tapa belt which holds up penis wrappers

Speaker: Martial Wahe

name of a moiety

Speaker: Martial Wahe

wooden spool for fishing line

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kwənka:mun] n. large herb, 0.5 to 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3002)

Example: Ornamental: The white fruits of this plant are used as pendants to fashion a necklace for a man, woman or child.

Scientific name: Coix lacryma-jobi, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

grating board for coconut

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5085)

Example: Sawn timber. Open ripe seed with stone or hammer, eat nut inside.

Scientific name: Terminalia catappa, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

cow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n scorpion fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n purple swamp hen (Porphyrio porphyrio)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

oval handled basket

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of sugarcane

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n barnacle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial wahe

n waning crescent (moon phase)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n new moon (moon phase)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Scientific name: Mangifera indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

kind of cassava. When the soil is good, this variety produces the largest root. A man named Charley got it from Port-Vila and brought it to Port Resolution and it is named for him

Scientific name: Manihot esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

damsel fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Blotcheye soldierfish, bigscale soldierfish

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

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

Threepot squirrelfish

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

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

Violet squirrelfish

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

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

n canoe-shaped kava bowl

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of taro, has yellow flesh

Example: Good for roasting

Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

mud

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree, leaf used as a penis wrapper, also warmed on fire and rubbed on stomach to facilitate kava intoxication

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[nanim] n. tree, 3-4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2986)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Hunting: Flying foxes and pidgeons are known to eat the fruit of this plant. As a result, hunters will cluster about these trees to hunt these animals.

Scientific name: Ficus adenosperma, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

names

(Bislama) nem blo hem

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. coral wall

Speaker: Jean Eskar

kind of banana

Example: Eaten ripe

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

Black-and-White Snapper

Example: Photo by dachalan / Flickr, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Macolor niger via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

wild animal

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

knot made of vine and holding together posts of cyclone house

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n adopted child

Speaker: Martial Wahe

village betwen yatukwei and tapir

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of wild yam

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. well branched tree, 10 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Metrosideros collina, Speaker: Jean Pascal 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: Johnson Noar

two days from the present

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5162)

Example: Fruits are edible, ripe, break open with hammer and eat seeds fresh. Stems for house posts. Stems for carving.

Scientific name: Cordia subcordata, 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

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. fern tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3160)

Example: When a person is growing watermelons, you put a knife in the roots of the watermelon plants, and then cut a stick from this tree and drive it into the roots as well, to ensure greater numbers of watermelons will be grown.

Scientific name: Vitex trifolia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[numire] n. vine on pipturus tree, growing at edge between forest and garden of sweet potato and taro. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3147)

Example: This is used as a medicine to treat babies and children with fever. Take 1 handful of leaves and squeeze the "juice" from them into a cup, add a small amount of water, just enough to dilute the strong taste of the leaf liquid. Drink 3 or 4 times a day until fever is reduced. This liquid is also good for people who have done heavy work or who are old, as it is said to strengthen the veins. So, if a person is feeling weak, they can drink a few cups of this preparation. The name "Nuamera" refers to "live veins," meaning that it will make your veins come alive ...

Scientific name: Vigna, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5163)

Example: Scrape inner bark (handful) and mix it with MJB 5157 in 1 liter water squeeze in bottle, drink 1 cup 2x daily for mother who is not producing enough milk for baby. Birds eat fruits -- all types like it (flying fox) also.

Scientific name: Ficus kajewskii, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. charcoal

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 3-4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2974)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Animal Food: Sometimes, green leaves of this plant are fed to goats.

Scientific name: Geniostoma rupestre, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. leaf, foliage 2. sheet, leaf (of paper)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of fern, can be used to clean kava root

Speaker: Martial Wahe

storm

Speaker: Martial Wahe

soursop fruit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Chameleon Parrotfish

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

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

Hound needlefish, crocodile long-tom

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

Scientific name: Tylosurus crocodilus crocodilus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

chicken

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my molar (tooth)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. father (my)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

fork (as in a tree)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[Mountain beetwen imaki and yanarpon]

Speaker: Martial wahe

yam mound

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bamboo slit gong used to signal approach by woman to nakamal

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

hors fly

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5098)

Example: Leaves used to cover laplap and wrap and boil in pot. Kids use papaya petiole to shoot seeds -- game of hide and seen called chung.

Scientific name: Canna indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. house central post

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Jean Eskar

[tɨpurpaɪ] n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2980)

Example: Construction: The timber of this plant is used as a hardwood for any part of house. It is considered a strong wood.

Scientific name: Claoxylon fallax, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[turawasi] n. you (two) are smoking

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n. tree, pale bark with vertical lines of lenticels. (collection: Laurence Ramon #330)

Scientific name: Claoxylon, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[tuwai] n. tree, 15 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3059)

Example: The stem is used to make house posts; the young stems are used to make bows and young boys use the bows made from this tree to hunt birds and flying foxes.

Scientific name: Dysoxylum aneityense, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. tree, 15 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3059)

Example: The stem is used to make house posts; the young stems are used to make bows and young boys use the bows made from this tree to hunt birds and flying foxes.

Scientific name: Dysoxylum aneityense, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

kind of skink

Speaker: Martial Wahe

untight robe

Speaker: Martial wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe