Nafe (Kwamera)

v 1. curve, twist, make crooked, stretch, fold (as banana leaves for a hat), fold back on; 2. divert, influence, cause someone or thing to act correctly or wrongly, discipline, drive or lead astray, drive before one (as a cow), chase

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v snack on, eat (coconut wrapped in fig leaves, for example)

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v intr smack lips (as to call a dog)

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v intr strive, do with effort

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v 1. drop, let go of, throw away, discard; 2. stop doing, leave, die, no longer exist; 3. dodge (as a thrown stone)

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v overtake, bypass

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v scrub, manipulate

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v 1. prepare, make ready (implies secrecy?); 2. act alone or anti-socially, avoid agreement

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v 1. trade, exchange (goods, blows); 2. fight with clubs)

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v. bite out or scrape with teeth

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v. to fight with

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child

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n. a minor kava drinking place, see imwarɨm

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foreign, imported, from the east

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caterpillar, millipede

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n shooting star

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n. wolf spider

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Mangrove red snapper, mangrove jack

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

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

Moluccan snapper

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

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

[kapuapu] n. green salamander

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n testicle

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kind of shellfish

Scientific name: Littorinidae sp., Speaker: Martial Wahe

Whipfin silver-biddy

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

Scientific name: Gerres filamentosus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

gate

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traditional dance

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[koa̤pe] n. tree in house area near village, 5 m tall (collection: Michael J. Balick #4720)

Example: The fruit of this tree is edible. The stem yields posts for building houses. The wood from the tree is said to be very strong, so larger parts of the tree can be used for house construction. The leaves are used to treat diarrhea. A person chews 4 leaves at a time as long as needed.

Scientific name: Psidium guajava, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Trigger fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5117)

Example: The flower stick is cut at both ends and used as a trumpet by the children. The root of this type is poisonous; other types are used as food.

Scientific name: Tacca leontopetaloides, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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: Emmanuel Maasi

bamboo tongs to pick up hot rocks from earth oven

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5147)

Example: Ripe fruits applied to paper and used as glue.

Scientific name: Cordia dichotoma, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. large, well branched tree (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4245)

Example: 1. The fruits are chewed for their juice and the remainder spit out. Locals refer to this as drinking the fruit. 2. The wood of the tree can be used as a post or rafter in either western-style or traditional style homes. 3. When in flower it is considered an appropriate time to clear a garden path for planting. When in fruit, it is time to plant yams in one’s garden.

Scientific name: Garcinia pseudoguttifera, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of coconut, produces the smallest coconut, with an oblong shape

Example: It is said that when children play in the bush they like to find this coconut to eat. The local name refers to children—small in size, just like a child. It is not considered a good variety for an adult to eat

Scientific name: Cocos nucifera, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n eyeball

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n scorpion fish

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egg of chicken

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[kwani̤ni̤] n. herb to 1 m, flowers yellow (collection: Michael J. Balick #4730)

Example: The entire plant is pulled up, the stems bound together and used to make a local broom.

Scientific name: Sida, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. inalienable fruit, offpsring

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n. drinking straw (made from immature banana leaves)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. a fruit with yellow skin and red seeds, edible, grows on low vines

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n. paper

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n. local tea leaves

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n spark (of fire)

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kind of cassava. When the soil is good, this variety produces the largest root. A man named Charley got it from Port-Vila and brought it to Port Resolution and it is named for him

Scientific name: Manihot esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

soldier fish

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bird

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n. kind of wild yam (see namhu)

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kind of plantain from Fiji

Example: Used for cooking

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

kind of cycad (?)

Example: To make a tabu sign for your land, crops or to block access to the sea, meaning that this area is blocked from fishing and diving, cross two of the leaves in an “X” shape and stick in the soil or sand. People will know to stay away

Scientific name: Microcycas semannii, Speaker: Johnson Noar

kind of coconut, characterized by a round fruit with a reddish color on the top of the fruit

Scientific name: Cocos nucifera, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Black-and-White Snapper

Example: Photo by dachalan / Flickr, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Macolor niger via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. epiphyte; prominent ridge on abaxial surface of costa. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2614)

Example: 1. Fowl sometimes lay their eggs in the center of these ferns.

Scientific name: Asplenium australasicum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. flowering plant or tree

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Elatostema, 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: Johnson Noar

[narwas] n. tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3072)

Example: People use the fruits as medicine to treat diabetes, "cancer" and ulcers. Collect ripe fruits, put the juice in a bottle and drink. The bark can be boiled in water and consumed to treat diabetes, 1 handfull of bark to 1 liter of water. Drink 3x daily to treat diabetes. It was said that Sam’s wife’s HA1C score went from 14 down to 6 using this remedy.

Scientific name: Morinda citrifolia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. tree, growing in disturbed forest/garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3107)

Example: Used to trap birds. Cut the stem of this plant and collect the sap. Take a small vine locally known as Nanupi, and roll the vine into a ball, infuse it with white latex which then turns brown, put it in a papaya or banana tree--when a bird comes to feed on the fruit of those trees, it gets stuck to the ball and can’t leave. This is good for harvesting small birds to be eaten.

Scientific name: Ochrosia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. large, well branched tree (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4240)

Example: 1. A locally revered kestrel, known as tikurkak, makes it’s nest with the leaves.

Scientific name: Weinmannia denhamii, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5042)

Example: Leaf used to feed pigs--when looking for dried coconuts, gather this. The seeds are edible put them directly on fire and cook for 3-5 minutes.

Scientific name: Canavalia rosea, Speaker: Johnson Noar

I am angry

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life

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home

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tribe name

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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5017)

Example: Collect young leaves and boil in water or fry it and eat as a cabbage. To cover fish for cooking, take petiole with many leaves and bend to cover fish and put in sauce pan. When cooked eat fish and leaves.

Scientific name: Polyscias cumingiana, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5158)

Example: When a person is stung by a jellyfish, take 5-6 leaves and whip the sore for 5-10 minutes and this will reduce the soreness of the wound.

Scientific name: Ipomoea pes-caprae, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. epiphyte on syzygium myriadenum, outside of transect. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2608)

Example: 1. A locally revered kestrel, known as tikurkak, makes its bed with the fronds of this fern.

Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5139)

Example: Ornamental plant. Known to be poisonous.

Scientific name: Cascabela thevetia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

happiness

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n. kava shoot with a double sprout

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n. Two day kava (one stays intoxicated for two days)

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n. wild kava

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branched coral

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ashes

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coconut leaf stalk

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chest

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foam

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n directional term indicating away from, sea, inland

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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

Lesson’s thicklip, stiped sweetlips

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

Scientific name: Plectorhinchus lessonii via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[pinerew] Red-Bellied Fruit Dove

Example: Sub-adult Red-bellied Fruit Dove. Photo by Papier K / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Scientific name: Ptilinopus greyii, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. house post outside (

(Bislama) pos

Speaker: Jean Eskar

middle finger

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n my baby teeth (deciduous teeth)

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dad

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n. tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2992)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Hunting: Pidgeons are known to eat the fruit of this plant. As a result, hunters will cluster about these trees to hunt this animal. Construction: The timber of the plant is used to make roof members of local houses.

Scientific name: Parasponia andersonii, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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

Kawakawa

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

Scientific name: Euthynnus affinis via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. large herb, growing at edge of garden. bracts red. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3071)

Example: People use this to cover or wrap banana and cassava prior to cooking in a boiling pot; when the food is cooked the leaf is discarded. Flowers used for decoration. This is an imported cultivated plant.

Scientific name: Heliconia indica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5152)

Example: Leaf used to cover boils on skin. Mash leaf slightly and cover boil. Leaf pulls out liquid from boil. Use this for 3 days, changing the leaf 2x daily. Young plants (branch) for toothache to reduce pain. Boil in water and wash painful area. Use as needed until pain subsides. Also can collect insects in dried stems and use these to feed chickens. (Hymenoptera).

Scientific name: Homalanthus nutans, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

ginger (Bislama, English)

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kind of tick

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kind of yam, thought to be from Wallis and Futuna, considered a “traveling yam” that has gone to many islands. The flesh is somewhat hard and not sweet

Example: Used to make lap-lap to guests and family to welcome them

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

I will sleep soon

(Bislama) mi stap silip nao.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I love my mum

(Bislama) mi likem mami blo mi

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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5141)

Scientific name: Geophila, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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Humpback unicornfish

Example: Photo by wahe Martial

Scientific name: Naso brachycentron via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5020)

Example: To treat flu take, a handful of leaves and squeeze them into a cup. Add water, and give to the sick person to drink. Takethis mixture once in the morning and once in the afternoon for two to three days to treat the flue. One can also take four pieces of the stem, about teo to 3 inches ling, chew, and spit juice onto the sick person’s whole body. 1 cup am/ 1 cup afternoon. 2-3 days to treat flu. Take 4 pieces of stem 2-3" long, chew and spit on stick on sick person, spit on whole body. 2x day, 2-3 days as for cup morn and afternoon. Spit helps to chase evil spirit out of body. Common

Scientific name: Bidens pilosa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n volcano

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Yellowstriped goatfish

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

Scientific name: Upeneus vittatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe