Nafe (Kwamera)

v soar, circle (as a bird)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. play with, make faces at, coo at (a child); 2. welcome, greet; 3. ask something of, beg something from

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr have diarrhoea

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr heal (as a sore), feel better, calm, become quiet

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. roll, push; 2. rattle (as a can full of small rocks)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr drop, let drop (as leaves or fruit), fall

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. prepare, make ready (implies secrecy?); 2. act alone or anti-socially, avoid agreement

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v rinse one’s face, pour water over one’s head

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v. to clear away bush or brush, to scratch, claw, or carry away

Speaker: Martial Wahe

for the ( hern him...)

(Bislama) fakem

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I shoot an arrow

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turtle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

squid

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[iarɨkwever] n. drum

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of banana

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

today

Speaker: Martial Wahe

your headache (pain)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Deep-bodied silver-biddy

Example: Photo by Rick Winterbottom / FishWise Professional, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Gerres erythrourus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of sugarcane

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. species of liana

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Piper austrocaledonicum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of breadfruit, similar to karuarewa but the fruits are larger and with the same small projections (described as small needles) on the outside of the fruit

Example: This variety is not good for making a canoe as the wood is too soft

Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

his sister, my sister

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: Emmanuel Maasi

n. liana growing on coconuts and ficus trees, at edge of disturbed agro-forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3087)

Example: The fiber from the stem is used to make a local rope used to tie thatch on the house. Also used to make an armband to put on the Nisei (Euodia hortensis) leaves (Plunkett et al.#3077).

Scientific name: Flagellaria indica, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. bowstring made from slender banyan tree aerial root

Speaker: Martial Wahe

before

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oval handled basket

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. 1. seedpod of niapwit, 2. glue, tree sap, sticky substances, 3. tag (children’s game)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. seed of nƗsuvás

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

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: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. kind of wild yam (see namhu)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. almond, Canarium indicum

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. species of magnolia tree

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Pittosporum campelli, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nakua tanna] riverbed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. plant (to be identified)

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Salacia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Longspine emperor

Example: Photo by Museum of New Zealand / Te Papa Tongarewa, License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Lethrinus genivittatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[napwejsen] n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3140)

Example: The wood from this tree makes strong house posts as well as timber for benches and can be used as firewood. If you don’t have soap, you can take the leaf, mash it up and wash with it--it produces a foam that cleans. Use for washing yourself, for example. If this tree has fruits, then people know that it is a good time to plant sweet potatoes and other crops.

Scientific name: Alphitonia zizyphoides, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of coconut with red shell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut development stage 5

Example: A ripe nut, dry and brown on outside, with developed flesh which falls from the tree, not good for eating but used for pressing coconut oil

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of fern

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n lava flow

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two days ago

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n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5111)

Example: Use leaf to line earth oven on top of stones to protect lap lap from burning. If you’re building a bush house in the forest, children can sleep on these leaves in a temporary house.

Scientific name: Microsorum grossum, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. sparsely branched tree, 15 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3232)

Example: Timber. Birds are known to eat this fruit so people can hunt near the tree. Unspecified medicine.

Scientific name: Myristica fatua, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. epiphyte. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2624)

Example: 1. The plant is used entirely to produce grass skirts, known as raus. First the plant is retted in hot water and left to sun dry. Then portions of the plant are sewn together or draped over a waist band to form an ankle-length skirt.

Scientific name: Phlegmariurus oceanianus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nau] machete, knife

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[narwaperien] lightning

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nəwowa] 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: Jean Pascal Wahe

[narwas] n. tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3072)

Example: People use the fruits as medicine to treat diabetes, "cancer" and ulcers. Collect ripe fruits, put the juice in a bottle and drink. The bark can be boiled in water and consumed to treat diabetes, 1 handfull of bark to 1 liter of water. Drink 3x daily to treat diabetes. It was said that Sam’s wife’s HA1C score went from 14 down to 6 using this remedy.

Scientific name: Morinda citrifolia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Yasur volcano black smoke and ash

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Coleus sp.

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

eye

Speaker: Martial Wahe

pig killing stick

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nikinapus] n. shrub, 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3067)

Example: Young boys make bows from the stems of this plant, and use them for hunting as the wood is hard and strong. If a boy needs a bow urgently, to hunt, he can use this.

Scientific name: Acalypha cf. repanda, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. copra bed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

family

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n. shrub, 2.5-3 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Evodia hortensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n my pupil (of eye)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. kava shoot with a double sprout

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of kava with short branches

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sandalwood

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of high prestige yam

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree with small green fruit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5145)

Example: Cut branches, dry in the sun until the leaves fall out,and then tie branches together to make broom. Stem used for canoe outrigger.

Scientific name: Murraya paniculata, Speaker: Johnson Noar

tuber pudding

Speaker: Martial Wahe

house parts: woven coconut mat used in thatching

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Yellowbarred Parrotfish

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Scarus dimidiatus 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

beer

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3038)

Example: Hunting: The wood of the tree is used, as the body of a spear, to hunt fishes and turtles. To fashion the spear, an appropriate length of wood is cut, debarked, heated (to straighten) and then topped with an iron point. Note: Iaruman is the name of the male form of this plant. Prane is the female form of this plant. This plant is considered the same as Rapanea amischocarpa.

Scientific name: Tapeinosperma scrobiculatum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. kind of wild mandarin, orange color

Speaker: Martial Wahe

how are you?

(Bislama) osem wanem yufala oraet ?

Speaker: Martial Wahe

culture hero name

Speaker: Martial Wahe

died laughing

(Bislama) det laf

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. arrow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

second (unit of time)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5093)

Example: For an earache, take a double handful of leaves, mash, and squeeze in your ear.

Scientific name: Calyptocarpus vialis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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. pathway

Speaker: Jean Eskar

coconut development stage 1

Example: Very small, not ready to eat or for any other use

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Tanna Fruit Dove

Example: Photo by Doug Janson / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Scientific name: Ptilinopus tannensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

sea snake black and white

n. tobacco

(Bislama) tapaka

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Jean Eskar

Blackfin squirrelfish

Example: Photo by Jan Messersmith, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Neoniphon opercularis via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5116)

Example: If a person gets cut while on reef, take leaves and burn them to an ash. Put this powder on the sore for one day to dry and heal cut. For constipation, take 1 handful bark, mash it, put with coconut water (one coconut’s worth), and drink a cup once. Don’t do other activites. This will clear bowel within a day. Very powerful.

Scientific name: Excoecaria agallocha, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

kind of shell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable skin, husk, covering, wrapping, shell, bark; empty shell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[tikinaʊ] n. small grass growing on large rock in middle of flowing stream. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3113)

Scientific name: Pogonatherum crinitum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. understory tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3143)

Example: The wood of this tree makes good house posts and is also used as firewood

Scientific name: Claoxylon, Speaker: Martial Wahe

two days from now

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree used for making house posts, has white fruit that birds like to eat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n slingshot

Speaker: Martial Wahe

window in traditional house (Bislama)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I’m cold

(Bislama) mi kolkol

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5141)

Scientific name: Geophila, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

kind of plantain, a small plantain

Example: Used for cooking (boiling)

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar