Nafe (Kwamera)

v/a 1. glad, happy; 2. hug, hold (onto a person)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v light up

Speaker: Martial wahe

v forbid, put a stop to

Speaker: Martial wahe

v push aside, scoop out (as coconut meat), dig, bulldoze

Speaker: Martial wahe

v shadow, shade, eclipse, block light

Speaker: Wahe Martial

drown

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v 1. singe, burn (as hair off a pig), warm, dry by a fire; 2. cook (on a fire)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v look off, look to the side

Speaker: Wahe Martial

blue

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. bend down (imperative)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Vanuatu

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Longfin African conger, moustache conger

Example: Photo by Patrick Randall, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Conger cinereus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

I sleep

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I killed the pig

(Bislama) mi kilim pig

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of turtle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

chief

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. crab

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5109)

Example: To treat strong fever or flu, boil one handful of stem and leaves in 1 liter of water for 5 minutes. Drink this liquid warm, one cup a day for two days.

Scientific name: Mimosa pudica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n clear sky

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5065)

Example: Tricks the rat, sees seeds from bottom, but when climbs herb, can’t see it--so name refers to tricking the rat. If a person drinks too much kava over many years, boil 5-6 whole plant for 15 minutes in water (1.5 L) and put in pot, drink 3 cups, 1x / day for 3 days to detoxify the effects of kava. A person who has drunk too much kava over a long time feels it in the body--weak, hard to wake early, appetite is low, body feels heavy.

Scientific name: Phyllanthus imbricatus, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5036)

Example: Young plants for roof rafters, larger plants used for house posts. Women who get pregnant with someone else besides husband use this to abort. Boil a double handful of scraped stem in water and drink 1 cup four times daily to abort. Fruits are edible. Cut it open and eat what’s inside.

Scientific name: Finschia chloroxantha, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Tomato hind, tomato grouper (deep sea)

Example: Photo by Ian V. Shaw / ALA, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Cephalopholis sonnerati via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Red-breasted Pygmy Parrot

Scientific name: Micropsitta bruijnii rosea, Speaker: Martial Wahe

bamboo tongs to pick up hot rocks from earth oven

Speaker: Martial Wahe

discourse particle hesitation discourse particle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. herb to 75 cm tall, flowers purple (collection: Michael J. Balick #4731)

Example: The stems of this plant are bound together to make a local broom.

Scientific name: Stachytarpheta, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n lava bomb

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. seed of nƗsuvás

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n house component (poles under thatching)

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

club, used for dancing

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. species of orchid

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Dendrobium mohlianum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my muscle

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. penis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut husking stave set in ground

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. baked vegetable food eaten along with meat, food baked in an earth oven (other than tuber puddings)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Common dolphinfish, mahi mahi

(Bislama) Mahi Mahi

Example: Photo by Alex Kerstitch / Shorefishes of the Eastern Tropical Pacific, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Coryphaena hippurus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. leaf

Speaker: Jean Eskar

Dusky parrotfish, swarthy parrotfish

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

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

Singapore parrotfish, greenthroat parrotfish

Example: Photo by Rick Stuart-Smith / Reef Life Survey, License: CC BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Scarus prasiognathos via FishBase, 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

Sabre squirrelfish

Example: Photo by Andy A. Lewis / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

Shoulderbar soldierfish

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

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

chicken

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Blue-spotted spinefoot, coral rabbitfish (fresh water)

Example: Photo by BS Thurner Hof / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Siganus corallinus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Elongate surgeonfish (sea)

Example: Photo by Paddy Ryan / www.ryanphotographic.com, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Acanthurus mata via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. kind of wild yam (see namhu)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nakwas naniki:ri] n. rope with round green fruits. (collection: Laurence Ramon #326)

Scientific name: Salacia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n hail

Speaker: Martial Wahe

dream

(Bislama) dream

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree, Alphitonia zizyphoides, bark used as medicine to encourage the growth of pigs

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[neri] n. herb to 1.5 m tall, flowers white (collection: Michael J. Balick #4722)

Example: This plant is used to welcome people by weaving the leaves and flowers into a head lei, locally known as a Kuanari. If there are no flowers, people weave the leaves and use these to welcome visitors. This species is becoming an invasive in the area.

Scientific name: Hedychium coronarium, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

animal

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3159)

Scientific name: Melicope latifolia, 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: Emmanuel Maasi

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

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5060)

Example: Kastom medicine to ascertain the type of sickness a person has. Take two small 6 in. long branches with leaves, and place this on the person along with another unspecified plant. Will help diagnosis.

Scientific name: Breynia disticha, 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

[nɨŋgare̤me] n. shrub, 4-6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3090)

Example: This plant is known as "fishbone leaf" as the edge of the leaf tears away and the remaining part is serrated. It is a powerful medicine that is secret.

Scientific name: Leea indica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. garden

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my palate (of mouth)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5031)

Example: For Kastom ceremonies, use this plant to decorate the roots of Kava that is given to a chief. Also used in women’s grass skirt for kastom dance. When young girls are getting their first period (menstruation), they wear a grass skirt from this plant to be fragrant (in order to cover any blood smell).

Scientific name: Euodia hortensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. kind of tree (from which combs are carved), 2. comb

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

blue coral

Speaker: Martial Wahe

earth oven

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nuːri] n. grass, small plants

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut development stage 7; sprouting coconut.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of parasitic vine (philodendron?)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of tree, used in traditional medicine

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree (Cerbera odollam) (with poisonous fruit with white sap inside tree and fruit)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kava shoot with a double sprout

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. traditional ’leaf’ medicines (general term)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cyclone

Speaker: Martial Wahe

word, speech, talking

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n half moon (first quarter or last quarter moon phase)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

1. night, 2. day (24 hour period)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my body

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

barracuda

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: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Three-stripe fusilier

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

Scientific name: Pterocaesio trilineata via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Lined Surgeonfish; small, blue and yellow striped

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

Scientific name: Acanthurus lineatus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[tras] n. shrub to 1 m tall, flowers red. Ornamental plant in homestead garden. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4735)

Example: Ornamental plant

Scientific name: Rosa chinensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n my esophagus

Speaker: Martial wahe

egg white

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. glow, shine

Speaker: Martial Wahe

my bag

Speaker: Martial Wahe

hill

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my lung

Speaker: Martial wahe

kind of snail

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. plant with white trumpet-shaped flowers, nightshade?

(Bislama) tƗmpúa

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Pink whipray

Example: Photo by zsispeo, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Himantura fai via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

I am fishing with a line

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I love my mum

(Bislama) mi likem mami blo mi

Speaker: Martial Wahe

shellfish type

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe