Nafe (Kwamera)

v mount, reach the summit of a hill, come out on top, be on top

Speaker: Martial wahe

v deflect an object (as a football), cast off, shake off one’s body, abandon one’s supporters (as a leader)

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr stay behind, remain, lie down

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v tr wear a shirt

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v intr be or sit in the sun

Speaker: Martial wahe

v spit, spit out (as chewed kava onto a leaf to wait further preparation)

Speaker: Martial wahe

angel

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. plant modifier word used with yam ("nuk")

Speaker: Martial Wahe

ice

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. go away! (imeprative)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. to make twine, by twirling between the fingers

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. French

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I am happy

Speaker: Martial Wahe

baby

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Port Resolution

Speaker: Martial Wahe

rectangular coconut basket

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3226)

Example: This is a "calendar plant," tied to the sea. When it flowers, it is time to harvest sea urchins. The dry wood is used to mke a fire when a person has no matches.

Scientific name: Hedycarya dorstenioides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5073)

Example: To treat scabies, collect 5 whole plants, remove the soil, then boil in a bucket of water for 10-20 min and wash the scabies 2x daily for 2 weeks or until the scabies is dry.

Scientific name: Adiantum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

kind of shellfish

Scientific name: Littorinidae sp., Speaker: Martial Wahe

[karwasi] devil that has sex with pigs

Speaker: Martial Wahe

earth oven stones

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. species of liana

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Piper austrocaledonicum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my cheek

Speaker: Martial wahe

pig jawbone for ceremonial use

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

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

Blue sea chub, snubnose chub, topsail drummer

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

Scientific name: Kyphosus cinerascens via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

my younger brother’s son (my nephew)

Speaker: Wahe Martial

[kwana:tɨs] n. herb to 75 cm tall, flowers purple (collection: Michael J. Balick #4731)

Example: The stems of this plant are bound together to make a local broom.

Scientific name: Stachytarpheta, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of banana with small fruit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

half beak fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

lung fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Golden Whistler

Scientific name: Pachycephala pectoralis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. paper

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n. coconut leaf roof thatching

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Jean Eskar

Brassy trevally (female) (reef fish)

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

Scientific name: Caranx papuensis via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Sabre squirrelfish

Example: Photo by Andy A. Lewis / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Sargocentron spiniferum via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Violet squirrelfish

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

Scientific name: Sargocentron violaceum via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Foxface

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

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

kind of insect, wood boring

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my rib

Speaker: Martial wahe

[na̤məri] n. tree, growing in disturbed forest/garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3106)

Example: The wood of this tree is hard and people use it to make a bow. Cut the stem, heat it over a fire to make it stronger and then carve it to the size desired.

Scientific name: Acacia spirorbis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5155)

Example: Young leaves are edible. Cook with meat and vegetables or boil leaves and mix with coconut milk.

Speaker: Johnson Noar

[namrami:ri] n. tree, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3001)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Construction: The timber of this plant is used to create any part of a house. It is considered a strong wood. Hunting: Pidgeons are attracted to this plant for their fruit. As a result, hunters gather around this plant when they desire to hunt the pidgeon.

Scientific name: Phyllanthus ciccoides, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

first born child

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n planet

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. kind of yam (high prestige)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. well branched tree, 10 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3111)

Example: People use trunk for houseposts as the stem is very straight. The stem also can be used for firewood.

Scientific name: Syzygium myriadenum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

knot made of vine and holding together posts of cyclone house

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. hardwood and fruit tree; taun tree, island lychee

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Pommetia pinnata, 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 dri

Scientific name: Morinda citrifolia, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. flowering tree

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Syzygium malaccense, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5030)

Example: Fruits cooked and eaten. Young leaves can be fried or boiled and eaten as a vegetable, like a mix with vegetable and meat and cooked in earth oven. Stem to make canoe, very long lasting wood 5-12 years, very tight wood. Older stems good for house posts.

Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5114)

Example: Weave bark fiber to make slings, grass skirt for ladies, hats and baskets. To do this, rett outer bark in sea for 1 week to rot everything but the fiber, take remaining fiber, dry in sun and use as a fiber for weaving.

Scientific name: Hibiscus tilliaceus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

large grass skirt plant

Speaker: Martial Wahe

small grass skirt plant

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. traditional medicine

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. kava, 2. driftwood

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n the white of my eye

Speaker: Martial wahe

year

Speaker: Martial wahe

[nukwe:raŋ] 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: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. tree with spiky red and yellow flowers, not used for anything

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree with fragrant bark (used as house posts)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5168)

Example: When a person becomes the chief, he embodies this tree, as this tree is considered the chief of all plants and always helps the community.

Scientific name: Ficus glandifera, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. rubber tree, bark used in tapa production

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. fruit (general)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

their heart

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. fruit of nukwesi

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5060)

Example: Kastom medicine to ascertain the type of sickness a person has. Take two small 6 in. long branches with leaves, and place this on the person along with another unspecified plant. Will help diagnosis.

Scientific name: Breynia disticha, Speaker: Johnson Noar

spider web

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5145)

Example: Cut branches, dry in the sun until the leaves fall out,and then tie branches together to make broom. Stem used for canoe outrigger.

Scientific name: Murraya paniculata, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. kind of tree (used for hosue rafters)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree with scented bark, can be used for timber

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bamboo (used to refer to several introduced species)

(Bislama) pampu

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Blue-spotted large-eye bream

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

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

kind of crab that lives in dirty water

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my left hand

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. woman’s or men’s grass skirt (women’s are longer, men’s shorter)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

chicken

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Whitespotted Surgeonfish

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

Scientific name: Acanthurus guttatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. small house posts that support thatch

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. father (my)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree growing in house area in village (collection: Michael J. Balick #4719)

Example: This tree is planted by people around household areas to hold embankments and prevent soil from eroding

Scientific name: Ficus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

strong

Example: something strong like rock; hood or something had to break it.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

fork (as in a tree)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n star path

Speaker: Martial wahe

Willan’s Chromodoris

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

Scientific name: Chromodoris willani 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 ceremonial circumcision exchange cycle

Speaker: Lindstrom 1986

sea snake black and white

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

Blackfin squirrelfish

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

Scientific name: Neoniphon opercularis via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. foreskin

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n cricket

Speaker: Martial Wahe

ginger (Bislama, English)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

small bat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

snapper fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

village between itapua and kwaraka

Speaker: Martial wahe