Nafe (Kwamera)

v. eat food after drinking kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v 1. feed (as a child or animal); fill (as a hole)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v pet, rub (as a dog), tickle

Speaker: Martial wahe

v/a 1. drown, sink; 2. deep, under water

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. refuse, not want, choose not to, leave, stop (doing), not care, give up; 2. with ra, denotes state of sufficiency: plenty, enough

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. lick, kiss; 2. bring together, close up

Speaker: Martial wahe

v/a 1. shake (as a tree); 2. shaky, loose, slack

Speaker: Martial wahe

v bathe a child ritually for the first time

Speaker: Wahe Martial

feast

Speaker: Martial Wahe

fruit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. poison (for example a fish)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n anchor (of boat)

Speaker: Martial wahe

cut his penis

Speaker: Martial wahe

axe (of stone, for traditional canoe carving)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I catch a fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

me

(Bislama) mi

Speaker: Martial Wahe

the day before yesterday

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n flower stamen

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. mat (woven of pandanus leaves)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

num three

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sprawling herb, with erect flowering stems (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3237)

Example: Children take the inflorescence of this plant and use it to find and poke lizards hiding in the bush. For treatment of an unspecified spiritual sickness, chew 2, 2" pieces of the stem to get rid of the sickness, spitting the material on the hair and body of an ill person; use only 1 time.

Scientific name: Cyathula prostrata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. kind of tuber pudding baked with edible leaves (nuvas), 2. cup made from rolled young banana leaves, 3. respect, friendship, fellowship

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. mushroom

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5110)

Example: Leaves fed to pig. Women string the seeds to make necklaces to sell. If the libido of a male is too strong ("bamboo is too strong"), mix juice from leaves and mix with 1/2 L water and drink 2 cups 1 day.

Scientific name: Leucaena leucocephala, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. terrestrial; uncommon. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2610)

Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

[kasusu] n. type of mushroom

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n named rock formation on Yasur volcano

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Satin Flycatcher

Example: Photo by David Cook, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Myiagra cyanoleuca, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n beche-de-mer, sea slug

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kisɨp] n. conch shell; type of seashell (triton shell) can be sounded to summon people for a meeting

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

tribe name

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. subshrub, 75 cm tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3236)

Example: This plant is used as a source of fiber to make grass skirts. Gather a lot of stems, place in seawater with a stone on top (the process known as retting) for one month. Collect the stems, pull off the bark and remove the fiber, allowing it to dry in the sun until it bleaches white, when it can be woven into the traditional grass skirt.

Scientific name: Urena lobata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of breadfruit

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n kind of shellfish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of taro

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n pumice

Speaker: Martial wahe

n volcano bomb

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable the remnant of the planted taro form which a new tuber has developed (at the base of the harvested root)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

a stage of coconut development

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of seaweed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Red-bellied Fruit Dove

Scientific name: Ptilinopus greyii, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial 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

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

n waxing gibbous (moon phase)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of mango, the fruit of this variety is round and has a very nice smell

Scientific name: Mangifera indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Whitetip soldierfish

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

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

worm

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my scalp

Speaker: Martial wahe

peace

Example: peace between two peoples or two tribes

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of coconut, characterized by a round fruit with a reddish color on the top of the fruit

Scientific name: Cocos nucifera, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5039)

Example: This is the female type of 5037. Leaf is used to cover the top ridge of a roof on a house. Lasts 5 or more years. Women use the leaf for grass skirts. Take leaves, twist, tie in a line, dry in sun and then use to make skirt. Leaves have a nice fragrance.

Scientific name: Alpinia, Speaker: Johnson Noar

during fight

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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: Martial Wahe

n my tendon

Speaker: Wahe

n. well branched tree, 10 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2983)

Example: Agricultural: When in flower, taro (Nerei) is said to be ready for harvest.

Scientific name: Metrosideros collina, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

kind of plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5063)

Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5030)

Example: Fruits cooked and eaten. Young leaves can be fried or boiled and eaten as a vegetable, like a mix with vegetable and meat and cooked in earth oven. Stem to make canoe, very long lasting wood 5-12 years, very tight wood. Older stems good for house posts.

Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

dry season

Speaker: Martial Wahe

fog, ground fog

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[napurnapur] 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: Jean Pascal 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: Martial Wahe

large grass skirt plant

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my breath

Speaker: Martial wahe

n my beard

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. canoe oar, paddle

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n the white of my eye

Speaker: Martial wahe

artery

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of taro, might be another genus of “taro”. It has a special stone that is specific to this variety

Example: Roasted or boiled for eating

Scientific name: Xanthosoma sagittifolium or Alocacia macrorrhizos, Speaker: Johnson Noar

coconut leaf sheath fibre

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of cone shell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. wild kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. mistletoe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable small offshoot tubers

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n moonlight

Speaker: 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: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

big fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

boat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Blue Wanderer

Example: Photo by melianie_and_max / iNaturalist, License: CC0 via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Tirumala hamata via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Fuscous Swallowtail

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

Scientific name: Papilio fuscus via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

beer

Speaker: Martial Wahe

salt sea water

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n high tide

Speaker: Martial wahe

Convict surgeonfish, convict tang

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

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

his/her mum, his/her mother

Speaker: Martial Wahe

fork (as in a tree)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

clam

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of banana, largest kind, used to make laplap

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Anna’s Chromodoris

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

Scientific name: Chromodoris annae via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

African Giant Snail

Example: Photo by buggirl13 / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Lissachatina fulica via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

kind of seaweed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

father

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of shell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3227)

Example: Unspecified, secret medicinal use.

Scientific name: Claoxylon fallax, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub re-growing from fallen tree, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3003)

Example: Medicine: This plant is used to relieve itchiness. Green leaves are rubbed on an area to reduce the sensation.

Scientific name: Homalanthus nutans, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. bamboo, smallest type used for weaving house walls

Speaker: Martial Wahe

place name: the highest mountain on Tanna Island

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I am fishing with a line

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I will sleep soon

(Bislama) mi stap silip nao.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of yam, has white flesh, soft and sweet, with a very large tuber, and is easy to grow

Example: If it grows in good conditions, the tubers are so large that it takes two people to carry it on a pole

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar