Nafe (Kwamera)

v var. of -agihi

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 1. must, have to, be obligated to, ought; 2. ask, request; 3. insist on, continue (in doing), demand, do anyway, proceed against advice, strive, try hard

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. slide on, slip, strip off (as leaves); clean (as kava with coconut fibre), clear away debris, clear one’s throat; 3. sober up (from alcohol or kava) by clearing one’s throat with food or water; 4. massage

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. cry; 2. pity

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. husk, skin (as a coconut)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v tr wear around neck (as a necklace, neck ornament or tie)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr 1. start, be suprised by; 2. transplant, dig up (as a plant), scrape out (as used tobacco from a pipe)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v reach out, reach in, extend an arm

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr move, act, stand or leave simultaneously

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. wring, squeeze through a strainer (as kava); 2. walk with a cane

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr slide (as land), cave in

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v intr 1. cry out, call out; 2. smack one’s lips (as to call a pig)

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v swallow

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v root (as a pig)

Speaker: Martial wahe

look up and see a plan

(Bislama) tra look antap by you look wan plen.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

phrase can you look up

(Bislama) look antap

Speaker: Martial Wahe

chew

Speaker: Martial Wahe

scrape the coconut

(Bislama) sikrasem coconat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. bend down (imperative)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

go sit down

Speaker: Martial wahe

answer

Speaker: Martial Wahe

make fire

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[jarmaveis] big devil

Speaker: Martial Wahe

the day before yesterday

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n buttocks

Speaker: Martial wahe

[ganari] vagina

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, small

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Meryta neo-ebuca, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of plantain

Example: Used for cooking and lap-lap

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of breadfruit

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5153)

Example: To make tattoo, draw design and then take youngest emerging stem and rub along design. Follow design and it will burn a design in your skin. Birds eat fruits as do fruit bats.

Scientific name: Alchornea scandens, Speaker: Johnson Noar

tribe name, lives at Nuwekur

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kostron] lemon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Pacific Robin

Example: Photo by Paul Balfe / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Scientific name: Petroica multicolor septentrionalis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. herb growing on roadside along coast road. flowers bluish-purple. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3164)

Example: The leaves of this plant are used to treat diarrhea. Take a handful of leaves, chew them and suck out the liquid and swallow it, then spit out the fiber and all that remains in the mouth. Also known to be good as a cattle feed.

Scientific name: Desmodium canum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n door, doorway

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n trail

Speaker: Martial Wahe

area

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. pumpkin

(Bislama) kƗmkƗn

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Jean Pascal 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

plant to be identified used for basketry

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n bend in the road

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Red parrotfish

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

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

Giant trevally (deep sea)

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

Scientific name: Caranx ignobilis via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Brassy trevally (female) (reef fish)

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

Scientific name: Caranx papuensis via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Brick soldierfish

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

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

Yellowmargin triggerfish

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

Scientific name: Pseudobalistes flavimarginatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. plant (to be identified)

(Bislama) nalalas

Speaker: Phillip Wahe

n moon crater

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v tr hate

Speaker: Martial wahe

Orange-striped emperor

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

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

Ornate emperor

Example: Photo by Digital Archives of Taiwan / via catalog.digitalarchi License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

n. tree with green sweet-smelling flowers

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Pisonia grandis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. stage 5 in the development of coconuts, 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. tree, 15 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3235)

Example: The ripe fruits are the best food for the flying fox. Hunters know this. In older times, people ate the ripe fruit. The bark is used as a traditional "saucepan." Bark is rolled over food such as Island Cabbage or other edible leaves and put on top of the stone oven to cook.

Scientific name: Ficus granatum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n White Sands language, spoken in East Tanna

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n cadaver

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. to laugh

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. well branched tree, 10-12 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3032)

Example: Construction: The wood of this tree is used as timber wood. Hunting: Flying foxes are known to eat the fruits of this tree. If they are desired, hunters will gather near the tree when fruits are in season. Food: The ripe fruits (black) are consumed occassionally.

Scientific name: Syzygium kajewskii, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5038)

Example: Fruits edible when ripe. The stem is used for timber and sawn timber. Flowers attract fruit bats. Hunters, knowing this, hunt the bats at night.

Scientific name: Syzygium malaccense, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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. 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: Martial Wahe

plant used to make grass skirts

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. fork of a tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. traditional leaf medicine

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree with small green fruit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. terrestrial; leaves up to ca. 2-2.5 m long. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2616)

Scientific name: Calochlaena straminea, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. spear, 2. kind of tree

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n my left foot

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. decorative plant (Crinum sp.), Bislama: white lily. A kind of wild taro, eaten.

(Bislama) nuviavia

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sandalwood

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of fern, used to make ropes to fasten house parts, or canoe parts

Speaker: Martial Wahe

house parts: woven coconut mat used in thatching

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n moth

Speaker: Martial wahe

East (cardinal direction)

Speaker: Martial wahe

Eyestripe surgeonfish

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

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

wind direction from the north

Speaker: Martial Wahe

South (cardinal direction)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n parrotfish (general)

(Bislama) napoleon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my left hand

Speaker: Martial wahe

n my bicuspid (tooth)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. herb, 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3146)

Example: The leaves of this plant are used as a styptic, to reduce blood flow from a wound and promote faster healing of a sore. If a person has a sore or fresh cut that is oozing, the leaves are mashed and their "juice" is put directly on the affected area, twice daily until the wound is healed.

Scientific name: (comp), Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

kind of banana

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n trail joining two villages

Speaker: Martial Wahe

honey

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I fight you, you gonna pee

(Bislama) bae mi faetem you bae you pispis.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n month name (archaic, corresponding to November)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

sawfish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of shell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable flower

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bat, flying mammal

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of flowering shrub with prickly seed pods

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. large, well branched tree (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4236)

Example: 1. Pidgeons ear the fruits. 2. The wood, being pliable, is used to fashion the limbs of hunting bows. 3. The bole is used as posts in western style houses.

Scientific name: Dysoxylum aneityense, Speaker: Martial 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

n tidal pool, salt evaporation pool

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Yellowtail Scad (female)

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

Scientific name: Atule mate via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

I am fishing with a line

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial wahe

Cinnabar goatfish

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

Scientific name: Parupeneus heptacanthus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

goatfish, small red or silver

Speaker: Martial Wahe