Nafe (Kwamera)

v scrape out, spoon out

Speaker: Martial wahe

v/a 1. rest; 2. intoxicated, drunk

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. singe, burn (as hair off a pig), warm, dry by a fire; 2. cook (on a fire)

Speaker: Martial wahe

fruit

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n. a type of traditional exchange ceremony

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v cut my hair

(Bislama) katem hair blo mi

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. bite out or scrape with teeth

Speaker: Martial Wahe

day

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foreign, imported, from the east

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wheeled toy

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sleeping mat of woven pandanus

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n shooting star

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honored

Example: honored God

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. kind of tuber pudding baked with edible leaves (nuvas), 2. cup made from rolled young banana leaves, 3. respect, friendship, fellowship

Speaker: Jean Pascal 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

[kasusu] n. type of mushroom

Speaker: Martial Wahe

traditional dance

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial wahe

Orange-spotted grouper (deep sea)

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

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

[kwanjapɨp] n. weedy vine growing over boulders in dry streambed. Corolla pink turning bluish. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2794)

Scientific name: Desmodium intortum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

White-Edged Lyretail

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

Scientific name: Variola albimarginata via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. canarium nut fruit (variant 2)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut stage, 6th (sixth); has a small sprout

Speaker: Martial Wahe

num seven

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sweet plantain

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. understory treelet, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4210)

Scientific name: Psychotria milnei, Speaker: Martial Wahe

my elder brother’s son

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. rope, vine, genealogical line

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

egg of chicken

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of taro

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. pandanus fruit

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of tree

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n door, doorway

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. banana flower (lit. banana cock)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

boy (uncircumsized)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n barn owl (Tyto alba)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

mantis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Shoulderbar soldierfish

Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

bird

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of fish

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[naŋema:fu] n. tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3018)

Example: Construction: The timber of this plant is used as a wood to construct the posts of a house. It is also used to fashion paddles as an accessory to a canoe.

Scientific name: Turrillia lutea, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Rough triggerfish, spotted oceanic triggerfish, oceanic triggerfish

Example: Photo by Ross Robertson / Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific online information system, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Canthidermis maculata via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

plant material used to bind cyclone house posts

Speaker: Martial Wahe

fruit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my scalp

Speaker: Martial wahe

Thumbprint emperor, blackspot emperor

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

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

[naŋe] n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3141)

Example: Fruits have edible seeds. To prepare, sun dry the fruits, break kernal and roast or boil the nut inside. Is a common food plant. The wood makes good timber. The latex can be collected, put in a tin and then heated over a fire. It turns black and can be used as black paint. It also smells nice when heated.

Scientific name: Canarium, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

bamboo wall of house

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. species of coconut with green nuts

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nasasa] n. banyan growing next to house along main path. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3150)

Example: The bark of this tree is used to make a kastom strap, particularly worn in the Toka Dance, where people have different ranks, and the kastom belt of this bark shows a person’s rank.

Scientific name: Ficus cf. tinctoria, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of breadfruit, produces a very long stem, the highest of any breadfruit, and then forms fruits when it becomes a very tall tree

Example: The wood is no good for making canoes as it is too soft

Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

[næskoʊ] n. tree, 2-3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3099)

Example: The wood of this plant is used for an important "kastom" dance known as Toka. The stem is said to have a curve in it. Sam noted that the people dancing get something in return, such as a pig or kava.

Scientific name: Croton insularis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of plant with small purple flowers

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nau] machete, knife

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nari fem] n. sparsely branched tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3005)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Construction: The timber of this plant is used to createany part of a house. It is considered a strong wood. Medicine: This plant is used to treat muscle soreness. It can be prepared in tow ways. One way is to boil and branch of leaves and then bathe (“swim”) with the resulting water. Another way is to heat a branch over a fire and rub on sore area for approximately 1 minute, after showering. Note: This plant is recognized as similar to M. latifolia. However, the medicinal action of this plant is regarded as inferior to the former.

Scientific name: Melicope bonwickii, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5118)

Example: Young stems are used to support the roof of ther house. Use yellow sap for glue. Fruits and flowers eaten by flying fox. Same effect as poison tree, they do not fly correctly, often falling and can be harvested to eat.

Scientific name: Melicope latifolia, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. tree, 7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3246)

Example: The young stems are used to make rafter of the house. A "calendar plant," when this plant flowers it is a good time to hunt flying fox because during that season they have a great deal of fat. Leaves used in the treatment of male children who have been circumsized. Wrap pieces of coconut with these leaves,heat in fire for 5-10 minutes, squeeze the hot leaf-infused oil all over the body. Children are taken to the sea to bathe and this will help heal the sore when it is put all over the body. It also gives the child a nice smell.

Scientific name: Melicope latifolia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. breadfruit

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

vomit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nijer] n. tree to 30 m, dbh 2 m (collection: Michael J. Balick #4738)

Example: Wood is strong and good to make houses with, particuarly house posts. Also good for firewood.

Scientific name: Casuarina equisetifolia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. 1. kava, 2. driftwood

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. fish poison tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. part of the lemon tree or mandarin tree, a bean pod?

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. lower part of coconut leaf stem

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5033)

Example: Young leaves edible, boil with water or cook in coconut milk. Cook fruit in boiling water, then cook in coconut milk. Cook fruits for 6-10 minutes. He was taught this by his grandparents who showed him how to eat wild plants; his grandfather wasa historically significant person in the Port Resolution area, especially in reference to medicine.

Scientific name: Ficus wassa, Speaker: Johnson Noar

happiness

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree

(Bislama) navenu

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. Paama kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. your hair

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n moustache

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n. kind of vine with edible leaves

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cold, dry season

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who? (plural)

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giant clam

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n directional term indicating away from, sea, inland

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Small Giant Clam

Example: via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Tridacna maxima via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

v. intransitive walk uphill

Speaker: Wahe

kind of skink (green)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable banana sprout, sucker

Speaker: Martial Wahe

my mum, my mother

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub to 1 m tall, flowers red. ornamental plant in homestead garden. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4735)

Example: Ornamental plant

Scientific name: Rosa chinensis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n star path

Speaker: Martial wahe

exchange relation

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my lung

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Great barracuda

(Bislama) Barracuda

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

Scientific name: Sphyraena barracuda via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

grave

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kava bowl

Speaker: Martial Wahe

today pool of water

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub, 3-3.5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3245)

Example: Children eat the ripe fruits of this plant. If a person has a sore, mash the leaves and put it on the sore to heal it. To ease delivery of a child, squeeze juice from many leaves into a 1.5 l bottle and drink all at once. This will facilitate delivery.

Scientific name: Pipturus argenteus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of snail

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[trajmijen] n. liana growing in disturbed forest area along kwataren kastom road. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3096)

Example: People use this plant to soften the hair, by taking the roots and stem, pounding them with a stone, and squeezing the juice into the hair--it is said to make it very soft.

Scientific name: Nothocnide repanda, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

snapper fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[tʰãmijen] n. small tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2984)

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

Scientific name: Pipturus argenteus, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

unicornfish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

wind direction from the northeast (note that Lindstrom 1986 lists this as "south wind")

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Green jobfish

(Bislama) Salmon Fis

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

Scientific name: Aprion virescens via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

I’m cold

(Bislama) mi kolkol

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I sleep

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe