Nafe (Kwamera)

v 1. rub, rub off, scrub, clean by scrubbing, wash; 2. rub against

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v dir come from (especially by walking)

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v. wear an ornament of leaves inserted into carved or woven armlets

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v intr stay behind, remain, lie down

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v intr leave, exit, escape, run away

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v intr have diarrhoea

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v sleep, close (as one’s eyes, or the leaves of a plant at night), blink

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v spread, spread out

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v 1. edge, weave a border (of a basket or mat); 2. be full (as a container of liquid), come up to the edge of a container; 3. conclude (as a discussion), reach an agreement; 4. whip, strike with a rope or stick

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v overtake, bypass

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v stand (implies more than one person)

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v intr clear (as the sky), break up (as clouds) dawn

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v 1. shoot, throw (a round object), connect, tie or join together; 2. comb, coif hair in traditional male fashion

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adj. thirsty

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n anchor (of boat)

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v. bend down (imperative)

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axe (of stone, for traditional canoe carving)

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v I scratch taro

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mullet (fish)

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child

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sleeping mat of woven pandanus

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n kind of locust

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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. 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: Johnson Noar

kind of coconut, has a medium-sized fruit

Example: Eaten when a bit young and still has the water inside. The flesh and water are eaten together. The water is said to be the sweetest of any coconut

Scientific name: Cocos nucifera, Speaker: Johnson Noar

kind of breadfruit, produces small round fruits with small projections (described as small needles) on the outside of the fruit. The tree is very tall

Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n kind of bird (collared fantail)

Scientific name: Rhipidura fulginosa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

shelled coconut

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a kind of honeyeater, Wattled Honeyeater

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n. pawpaw, papaya

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how many? how much?

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Snubnose dart

Example: Photo by John E. Randall, License: CC BY-NC 3.0

Scientific name: Trachinotus blochii via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n grasshopper

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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5161)

Example: Leaf mixed with Malaxis sp. (MJB 5154) to treat broken bone. Conjunctivitis (pink eye) drip juice from the stem into the eye 2x day 3 days. Fertility: To cleanse womb squeeze on stem into bottle with water and drink 1L a day for four days to get pregnant.

Scientific name: Canavalia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Starspotted grouper (deep sea)

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

Scientific name: Epinephelus hexagonatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. large herb, 0.5 to 1 m tall; adlay millet

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Coix lacryma-jobi, Speaker: Martial Wahe

num eight

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long tailed thriller

Scientific name: Lalage leucopyga, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n month name (archaic) corresponding to September

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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: Emmanuel Maasi

[kwenasənas] n. epiphyte growing on neonauclea forsteri trunk, about 2-3 m above ground (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2977)

Example: Ornamental: The tiny seeds, appearing as a powder, are used to decorate one’s face during kastom ceremonies. The plant is used when the fruit is yellow.

Scientific name: Dendrobium, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of yam, produces a tuber with reddish flesh. The tuber can be up to 2 meters long and very hard inside, taking a long time to boil. It is easy to grow

Example: During boiling, the water is said to turn red in color and then changes to whatever the color is of what it is being cooked with

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

fish hook

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n. kind of tree (bark used in the production of tapa cloth)

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n. kind of sweet potato

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kind of seaweed

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Robin

Scientific name: Petroica multicolor, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Tanna fruit dove

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

Scientific name: Ptulinopus tannensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n new moon (moon phase)

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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. almond, Canarium indicum

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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

Scientific name: Salacia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. small, round wild yam

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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5130)

Example: This is male variety used to build the foundation of the house, to make the timbers for the floor (joist) and put Veitchia arecina (MB 4707) strips on top. Also used for crossbeams for roof of house. Planted in village to provide shade.

Scientific name: Ficus glandifera, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5127)

Example: Medicinal use. For back pain, take double handful of leaf, mash it in 1/2 liter of water, squeeze into cup. Drink 2 cups / day, morning and afternoon for 5 days.

Scientific name: Nephrolepis biserrata, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. kind of tree

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village betwen yatukwei and tapir

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disturbance

(Bislama) disteb

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n. flowering shrub or tree

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Tabernaemontana pandacaqui, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5066)

Example: Stem used for sawn timber. Eat the nut inside the large fruit. To do this, peel skin off nut and eat raw.

Scientific name: Allophylus cobbe, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. herb to 2 m tall, growing on the edge of a homestead (collection: Michael J. Balick #4723)

Example: This plant is used to lift a person up--take two leaves together and make a "seat" and put it under a person, they can then be lifted up by the two people with a leaf on each side of that person. Use the leaf of this species to wrap rolled leaves of wild tobaco, to protect it and keep it fresh and moist

Scientific name: Piper methysticum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

pig killing stick

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black newou plant

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[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. treelet, 1.5 to 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4243)

Example: 1. Known as the spirit of kava, the inner stem of young leaves can be eaten as bush fodder.

Scientific name: Macropiper latifolium, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. kava, 2. driftwood

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n. garden

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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: Johnson Noar

horizon

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n sunbeam

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n. tree, 10-12 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3142)

Example: The wood from this tree makes a very good timber. Hunters know that the flying fox and pigeons like to eat the ripe fruits from this tree, so hunt near them when it is ripe.

Scientific name: Elaeocarpus angustifolius, Speaker: Martial Wahe

dance

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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5168)

Example: When a person becomes the chief, he embodies this tree, as this tree is considered the chief of all plants and always helps the community.

Scientific name: Ficus glandifera, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. kind of tree

(Bislama) navenu

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kind of red soil found in south Tanna

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[nɨpeiaka] n. dry coconut husk

Example: see more on Youtube

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coconut fibre, outer husk, coir

Example: see more on Youtube

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n. Xanthosperma, Bislama: Fiji Taro

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tuber pudding

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

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storm

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Bleeker’s parrotfish

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

Scientific name: Chlorurus bleekeri via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Green humphead parrotfish, bumphead parrotfish

Example: Photo by Klaus Stiefel / Flickr, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Bolbometopon muricatum via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

directional term: when facing the sea, to one’s right

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Claret-breasted Fruit Dove

Scientific name: Ptilinopus viridis lewisii, Speaker: Martial Wahe

quantity of five coconuts

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n. woman’s or men’s grass skirt (women’s are longer, men’s shorter)

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eel, morray (general)

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wind direction from the west

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n trail joining two villages

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Dark-Banded Fusilier, Neon Fusilier

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

Scientific name: Pterocaesio tile via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n fish species: jackfish, wahoo

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Vanuatu Petrel

Scientific name: Pterodroma occulta, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[twitwi] 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: 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

Gray unicornfish (deep sea)

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

Scientific name: Naso caesius via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I am sick

(Bislama) mi sik

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n volcano

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