Nafe (Kwamera)

v complement, praise

Speaker: Martial wahe

v/a immobile, confined to a mat or bed

Speaker: Martial wahe

v fight with a club, wield a club

Speaker: Martial wahe

v hang oneself or another

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. plant (certain plants such as taro, papaya, kava, sugarcane, manioc)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v close (as a door)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v drop (as a box or stone), let go of

Speaker: Martial wahe

v remember, recall, think about, ponder

Speaker: Martial wahe

v warm oneself, sit near a fire

Speaker: Martial wahe

v hang, hang up, tie up

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. peel, cut skins off tubers

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v 1. grate (tubers); 2. treat with traditional medicine (by spitting grated or masticated ingredients on the patient’s head)

Speaker: Wahe Martial

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

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v help, assist

Speaker: Wahe Martial

fruit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. to peel skin or husk

Speaker: Martial Wahe

go sit down

Speaker: Martial wahe

maggot

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. small tubercles which grow on kava root

Speaker: Martial Wahe

octopus

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. mat (woven of pandanus leaves)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. sleeping mat made of pandanus

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. a type of fungus that grows on trees, can be fried and eaten

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Yellow-banded snapper, hussar

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

Scientific name: Lutjanus adetii via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Malabar blood snapper, saddletail snapper, large-mouthed nannygai

(Bislama) Red Snapa

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

Scientific name: Lutjanus malabaricus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sapling, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4235)

Example: 1. When in flower, it is s a good time to hunt swefa, a type of sea mollusc.

Scientific name: Hedycarya dorstenioides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Eastern Barn Owl

Example: Photo by Christopher Watson, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Scientific name: Tyto javanica delicatula, Speaker: Martial Wahe

a type of brown fungus that grows on trees

Example: Young specimen of brown fungus. Photo by K. David Harrison, Oct. 2016

Broadbilled Flycatcher

Scientific name: Myiagra caledonica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Moorish idol

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

Scientific name: Zanclus cornutus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial wahe

Strawberry hind, strawberry grouper (deep sea)

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

Scientific name: Cephalopholis spiloparaea via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Two-striped sweetlips, giant sweetlips (male)

Example: Photo by Ross D. Robertson / Shorefishes of the Neotropics, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

n. copra

(Bislama) kopra

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of banana

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. liana growing into canopy of dysoxylum, in open (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3034)

Scientific name: Lygodium reticulatum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

before

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n traditional house

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. wild cane stalk used in the construction of trellises

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

chest

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n.

Speaker: Johnson Noar

n parrot finch

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. central spine of a coconut frond

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Robin

Scientific name: Petroica multicolor, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Pacific Dtella

Example: via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Gehyra oceanica via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

adj unripe (for example, a banana or pineapple)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Blue-spotted spinefoot, coral rabbitfish (fresh water)

Example: Photo by BS Thurner Hof / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Siganus corallinus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

ant

Speaker: Martial Wahe

blue fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of yam

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. plant (to be identified)

(Bislama) nalalas

Speaker: Phillip Wahe

[nakwanumɨn] rock earth oven

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kinds of yam. There are sub-varieties of this that produce tubers with either red or white flesh

Example: Only used for making lap-lap for kastom ceremonies

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

cousin (mother’s brother’s child)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n fire

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5069)

Example: To treat constipation, take 1 handful of leaf, squeeze in water (small beer bottle size) drink the bottle all at once to loosen stool. Ripe fruits are eaten--as they are very sweet.

Scientific name: Ficus septica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5091)

Example: When the fruit is ripe, it is put in a pot with water. Fill half of a large bag (2 liters) with fruit, add this to 2 liters of water and macerate the fruit in the water. Drink 2 cups/day of this extract, morning and afternoon, for one week to make skin oily when it is too dry. This is necessary, for example, when a person drinks too much kava and thir skin dries out. Eat young fruits as a protection from someone who wants to do you harm. It is said that the fruit has 10 eyes, and can watch after you. Cover fish with leaves to cook in a fire. Crush and boil pieces of the stem and leaves and

Scientific name: Morinda citrifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. creeping herb with white flowers and red-orange fleshy fruit. (collection: Laurence Ramon #333)

Scientific name: Geophila repens, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. heat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. taro

(Bislama) taro

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. a kind of sugarcane, small

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my nose

Speaker: Martial wahe

steps cut into earth

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree growing along ridge track in disturbed forest, next to garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2979)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood.

Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. large tree root

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of beach vine

Speaker: Martial Wahe

pond of water

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. epiphyte growing on a main branch of a glochidion tree, 2-3 m above ground (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3073)

Example: People use this to treat skin sores, by boiling a handful of leaves in a small amount of water and washing the sores with this. Wash 2-3x daily until the sore is better. It may take 3-4 weeks to heal the sore.

Scientific name: Pyrrosia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. pandanus

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. white kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n moustache

Speaker: Martial wahe

chest

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree with white bark, used for bows

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Ramie Moth

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

Scientific name: Arcte coerula via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

traditional stone axe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Ember parrotfish, redlip parrotfish

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

Scientific name: Scarus rubroviolaceus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

seawards

Speaker: Martial Wahe

South (cardinal direction)

Speaker: Martial wahe

Japanese large-eye bream

Example: Photo by FAO / Fishbase, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Gymnocranius euanus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

North (cardinal direction)

Speaker: Martial wahe

kind of fish: spiny puffer?

Speaker: Martial Wahe

hold or take something

Example: young people hold chew kava to drink. or old people walking with walking stick

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n weather magic (spells or rituals intended to influence the weather)

Speaker: Martial wahe

not long will be delight

(Bislama) stap broke delight

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of banana

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. glow, shine

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[Mountain beetwen imaki and yanarpon]

Speaker: Martial wahe

Tryon’s Hypselodoris

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

Scientific name: Hypselodoris tryoni via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Striped Phyllidopsis

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

Scientific name: Phyllidiopsis xishaensis via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

n youth, circumcised boy up to the age of marriage (i.e., approx. 5 to 18 years of age)

Speaker: Lindstrom 1986

n. Tanna island

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my right foot

Speaker: Martial wahe

kind of seaweed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable flower

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. once-branched tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3139)

Example: Stem used to plant kava (use it like a spade) but even when you have a spade, you should still use this to dig the hole. The leaf is used to make laplap, a food made from taro or yam with coconut and other foods added. Take the leaf and wrap the laplap and then roast the package on the fire or cook the leaf in a pot of water.

Scientific name: Cordyline fruticosa, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

place name: the highest mountain on Tanna Island

Speaker: Martial Wahe

unicornfish

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

Whitesaddle goatfish

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

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

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe