Nafe (Kwamera)

v. unwrap (as a tuber pudding), open (as an earth oven)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v paint (especially one’s face during ceremonial events)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. wear an ornament of leaves inserted into carved or woven armlets

Speaker: Jean Pascal 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/a immobile, confined to a mat or bed

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. intransitive garden, work in a garden

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v intr suckle, nurse

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr 1. go, walk, be in motion; 2. be unmarried; 3. shine (as the sun)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr rustle, swish, rasp, scrape

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

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

v shut the door

(Bislama) sarem door

Speaker: Martial Wahe

scrape the coconut

(Bislama) sikrasem coconat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

younger brother

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I cooked taro

(Bislama) mi kukum taro

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I feel a pain in my body

Speaker: Martial Wahe

thief

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of coconut with reddish fibre

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

me

(Bislama) mi

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. a kind of sweet potato

Speaker: Martial Wahe

friend

Speaker: Martial Wahe

caterpillar, millipede

Speaker: Martial Wahe

power stone

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of insect (large, sucks nectar)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of sweet potato

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n kind of shellfish, possibly abalone

Speaker: Martial Wahe

my brother in law, my brother-in-law

Speaker: Martial Wahe

stick wall around garden

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5161)

Example: Leaf mixed with Malaxis sp. (MJB 5154) to treat broken bone. Conjunctivitis (pink eye) drip juice from the stem into the eye 2x day 3 days. Fertility: To cleanse womb squeeze on stem into bottle with water and drink 1L a day for four days to get pregnant.

Scientific name: Canavalia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

One-spot snapper

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

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

Yellow-Edged Lyretail

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

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

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5115)

Example: Hardwood, for carving. For building house posts. If wood is dry when it is wet outside, this wood will light and burn faster than any other wood (due to high sap content).

Scientific name: Guettarda speciosa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

my younger brother’s son (my nephew)

Speaker: Wahe Martial

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: Johnson Noar

n. kind of banana with small fruit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of yam, related to kawehae with a large mass of tubers that have red flesh and are sweet. It has the same type of flesh as that variety but the leaves differ in shape

Example: If a person loses some of his yams in the garden to various conditions, such as poor soil or disease, these two varieties will always continue to grow, being very hardy and resilient. This yam was originally from Iankahi but now the village is losing this variety. However, some people in Port Resolution still grow it

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

place or destination

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. kind of luminous lichen, fungus, mushroom, 2. sea sponge, 3. soft corals, 4. comb and wattle of a fowl

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n waning crescent (moon phase)

Speaker: Martial wahe

[manariən nəʔpəŋ] n. shrub, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2971)

Example: Cultural: After a young boy is circumcised, a special kava (“Tapuga”) is prepared. The leaf of this tree is then tied to each branch of the tree to signify the ceremony.

Scientific name: Maoutia diversifolia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kava type

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of skink

Speaker: Martial Wahe

blue fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n canoe-shaped kava bowl

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of banana

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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. stage 1 in the development of coconuts, very small, not ready to eat or for any other use

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5130)

Example: This is male variety used to build the foundation of the house, to make the timbers for the floor (joist) and put Veitchia arecina (MB 4707) strips on top. Also used for crossbeams for roof of house. Planted in village to provide shade.

Scientific name: Ficus glandifera, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5039)

Example: This is the female type of 5037. Leaf is used to cover the top ridge of a roof on a house. Lasts 5 or more years. Women use the leaf for grass skirts. Take leaves, twist, tie in a line, dry in sun and then use to make skirt. Leaves have a nice fragrance.

Scientific name: Alpinia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of large fern

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of plantain, a medium sized plantain, is ca. 6” long with green and yellow color on peel

Example: Eaten ripe

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

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

Scientific name: Melicope latifolia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

tribe name

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of cassava, yields roots in 6 months after planting

Example: Used to prepare all types of food

Scientific name: Manihot esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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: Martial Wahe

argument

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. medicinal leaves, used to feed pigs to make them grow big, or for male erection

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my beard

Speaker: Martial wahe

tribe name

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. kind of tree (from which combs are carved), 2. comb

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. 1. spear, 2. kind of tree

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n the white of my eye

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of yam, sweet, edible, white color

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. charcoal

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut fruit stalk

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5129)

Example: Ornamental plant.

Scientific name: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. white kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coral

Speaker: Martial Wahe

name of a traditional road linking villages in South-East Tanna

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of banyan tree with large leaves and fruit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. soursop tree

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Annona muricata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n moth

Speaker: Martial wahe

Australian Lurcher

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

Scientific name: Yoma sabina via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of taro, has white flesh

Example: Is a soft taro variety good for boiling or roasting. It grows very tall

Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. vine growing up a ficus tree, growing in open forest heavily impacted by cyclone. flowers yellow; fruits brown and fibrous. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3231)

Example: To chase away pigs that invade a person’s garden, wrap leaves of this species around a stick, hit the pig with it and the pig will not return to the garden to eat the crops.

Scientific name: Trichosanthes dieniensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of wild mandarin, orange color

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree with small, compound leaves, used for firewood

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. part, piece (see ringinimwa)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

second (unit of time)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. pathway

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n ocean

Speaker: Martial wahe

Thank you

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Tanna island

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. herb, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3250)

Example: Children shoot the small hard seeds through a bamboo tube at lizards and butterflies, as a sort of game.

Scientific name: Canna indica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my liver

Speaker: Martial wahe

Golden spadefish

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

Scientific name: Platax boersii via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

father

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. house central post

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2980)

Example: Construction: The timber of this plant is used as a hardwood for any part of house. It is considered a strong wood.

Scientific name: Claoxylon fallax, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n fish species: possibly a type of grouper

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[tuwai] 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: Jean Pascal 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 cocoon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n a type of sea worm

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I sleep

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Bluespot mullet

Example: Photo by Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Moolgarda seheli via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Manybar goatfish

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

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

Black Soldier Fly

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

Scientific name: Hermetia illucens via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe