Nafe (Kwamera)

v complement, praise

Speaker: Martial wahe

v hang onto, perch (as a bat), hang up (as a kerosene lantern)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v life up, stand up (from a prone position), arise, life something which is on the ground

Speaker: Martial wahe

v tr eat, consume

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Martial wahe

v bury, conceal, hide

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v 1. slide, crawl on one’s backside, crab-walk; 2. sit (as a baby who cannot yet walk)

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v 1. tie up, attach, bind, wrap in leaves (as food to bake), wear (something tied on); 2. carry on a pole with a man taking each end, carry on one’s back

Speaker: Martial wahe

ceremony

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v cut tree stump

(Bislama) katem stampa blo hood.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. intransitive walk downhill

Speaker: Martial Wahe

turtle shell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I run with speed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

thief

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[jarmaveis] big devil

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

a small mushroom, grows only on trees, edible when fried, not pliable, difficult to break by hand

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. wolf spider

Speaker: Martial Wahe

assistance, help

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: Emmanuel Maasi

pig pen

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. pawpaw, papaya

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Snubnose dart

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

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

his sister, my sister

Speaker: Martial Wahe

her brother

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. pineapple

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Harlequin Sweetlips, Many-Spotted Sweetlips, Spotted Sweetlips (female)

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

Scientific name: Plectorhinchus chaetodonoides via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

baby

Speaker: Martial Wahe

beginning

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n small stones, pebbles

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. banana leaf

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. one

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of vine

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5137)

Example: Stem to build house posts. Can be used to make pipe. Ripe fruits, remove nut and eat food.

Scientific name: Ochrosia elliptica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. garden clearing (marked by dead, leafless trees)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. orange (fruit)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of fern (var. of nƗnhupwi)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

adj unripe (for example, a banana or pineapple)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

surgeonfish, small with curly pattern

Speaker: Martial Wahe

lizard

Speaker: Martial Wahe

blue fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nejɨk] n. herb, growing as weed in kava garden. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3148)

Example: If a tree is dying from fungal infection, this plant should be planted near one’s garden, near crops or that tree to help protect crops from that disease.

Scientific name: Plectranthus scutellarioides, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

house fish or cave fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5133)

Example: Stem for house building. Young leaves are very strong and used as plates during large kastom ceremonies. Sap can be used to cover sores from flies in order to protect it. Stem good for firewood as does not give much smoke--does not bother eyes as much as other wood.

Scientific name: Macaranga tanarius, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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

my eyes

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my large intestine

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

leaves used to lure fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. puffball

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Scientific name: Melicope latifolia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sparsely branched shrub, 1.5-2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3083)

Example: This plant is used as an ornamental, and is important to plant on graves. The color signifies a grave.

Scientific name: Codiaeum variegatum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. understory plant, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4209)

Example: 1. Ripe fruits are used to feed pigs. The food is considered to fatten the pigs and is fed to them accordingly.

Scientific name: Cyrtandra, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. copra bed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n armpit

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5095)

Example: In times of disaster, can roast root in fire like sweet potatoe 20 min--chew the root to get the sweet tasting food and spit out fiber.

Scientific name: Pueraria montana, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n first quarter (moon phase)

Speaker: Martial wahe

canoe parts: sail

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3160)

Example: When a person is growing watermelons, you put a knife in the roots of the watermelon plants, and then cut a stick from this tree and drive it into the roots as well, to ensure greater numbers of watermelons will be grown.

Scientific name: Vitex trifolia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree, leaves used for penis wrapper (Related to nepek tree)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, growing in disturbed forest/garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3109)

Example: People use the seeds and stem of this tree for fish poison. Pound the seed and wood and put it in a pool in the ocean at low tide. Fish are stunned and can be harvested.

Scientific name: Barringtonia asiatica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5094)

Example: Leaves gathered to feed pigs.

Scientific name: Ipomoea indica, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. liana growing into the canopy of dense forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3046)

Example: Agricultural: When it is time to harvest the first crop of yam (~ April 1st), the 1st yam (’Nuk’) is put inside the hole from where it was harvested with one or two green leaves of this plant.

Scientific name: Oxera lehuntei, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n swamp

Speaker: Martial wahe

Red Jungle Fowl (female)

Example: Photo by Lip Kee, License: CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Gallus gallus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n tremor

Speaker: Martial wahe

bone

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. semi-inalienable 1. leaf stalk (of a coconut, banana, etc.), 2. leaf stalk scar (on coconut tree trunk)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of sugarcane, small with brown color, very sweet

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree with small green fruit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nɨpeiaka] n. dry coconut husk

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. luminescent fungi or algae; something bright, sparkling like the lights of the city

Speaker: Martial Wahe

house parts: woven coconut mat used in thatching

Speaker: Martial Wahe

soursop fruit

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

[peha] axe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Pacific bullethead parrotfish

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

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

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

wave, surf

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: Martial Wahe

n. black pig

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[ramasi] n. to smoke

Speaker: Jean Eskar

chicken

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[rerenakwaŋ] n. herb growing on roadside along coast road. Flowers yellow. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3166)

Example: Children are said to chew the branches of this plant to give them a "bigger (stronger) voice.

Scientific name: Sonchus oleraceus, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

my dad

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. father (my)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of sugarcane

Speaker: Martial Wahe

banana (general term)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[tamekɨn] notches cut into tree trunk, either as marking or foothold

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 worth0, and drink a cup once. Don’t do other activites. This will clear bowel within a day. Very powerful.

Scientific name: Excoecaria agallocha, Speaker: Johnson Noar

[te:raŋ] 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: Jean Pascal Wahe

[tuprapwej] 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: 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

n tidal pool, salt evaporation pool

Speaker: Martial Wahe

dolphin

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of plantain, has large fruits

Example: Used for cooking

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

I will sleep soon

(Bislama) mi stap silip nao.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of crab that live only in the beach

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. to bite off or pull off with the teeth, as sugarcane or coconut husks

Speaker: Martial Wahe