Nafe (Kwamera)

v. sweep, clear away garden debris

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v sit on, sit astride (as on a horse)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v suck on, savor (as candy), keep in one’s mouth

Speaker: Martial wahe

green

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v throw, throw away, discard

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr be or sit in the sun

Speaker: Martial wahe

v lead (as an animal), tie a rope around to lead, drive, drive on

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v carry by hanging on an elongated object, carry on a pole, carry on a finger

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v 1. spear, stick, pierce, throw (an elongated object); 2. put down, insert, stick something into the ground, plant (as a tree), join; 3. clap, applaud, pat, ringbark (as to kill a tree); 4. be proud, sassy, disrespectful, preen (because of praise)

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v. to make twine, by twirling between the fingers

Speaker: Martial Wahe

toy ball made of coconut leaf

Speaker: Martial Wahe

go fart

Speaker: Martial wahe

go dive

Speaker: Martial wahe

Vanuatu

Speaker: Martial Wahe

sandpiper

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Futuna

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I am happy

Speaker: Martial Wahe

fly

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. (collection: Michael J. Balick #5107)

Example: For Asthma, take one handful of shaved stem with 1/2 L water. Boil in a pot 5-10 minutes, a drink 1 warm cup two times a day for one week.

Scientific name: Chamaesyce, Speaker: Johnson Noar

[jerema se menari] jungle devil

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of sweet potato with dark flesh

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5108)

Example: When woman does not have period for 2-3 months and is pregnant, people say the lizard could eat the baby. To avoid this, boil a handful of stem shavings in 1/2 L water, for 6 minutes and give this drink to the woman twice a day for 5 days. Then the bleeding will stop. There are also dietary restrictions: no coconut, oil, salt, curry. The woman can also not swim in sea for 5 days. But the baby will be healthy if these instructions are followed.

Scientific name: Achyranthes aspera, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Spanish flag, stripey

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

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

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5028)

Example: To reduce the pain of labor, squeeze double handful of leaves into 1 cup of cool water and give to the mother to drink.

Scientific name: Achyranthes aspera, Speaker: Martial Wahe

skull

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bat (flying fox)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

command to dogs (sic)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[konparɨm] arrow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Darkfin hind, flagtail grouper (deep sea)

Example: Photo by Digital Archives of Taiwan / via catalog.digitalarchi License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

n. tree, 2-3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3031)

Example: Ceremonial: Following circumcision, boys will perform a ritual shower using a mixture of this plant and coconut. The leaves of this plant are mixed with the copra of the coconut and squeezed with water over the boys’ heads. Construction: The wood of this tree is used as rafters in house construction.

Scientific name: Melicope, Speaker: Martial Wahe

long tailed thriller

Scientific name: Lalage leucopyga, Speaker: Martial Wahe

ankle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n green snail

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of taro, has reddish-white flesh

Example: Good for cooking and making lap-lap

Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. kind of tree; its loss of leaves signifies the beginning of the cool season

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. liana growing on coconuts and ficus trees

Example: Useful rope for Tanna’s peoples, for tightening a traditional house, canoe and other uses. Photo taken at Mount Simian, south Tanna, Vanuatu, by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Smilax Vitiensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. almond tree (Terminalia catappa)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. sweet potato that is planted close to yams

Speaker: Martial Wahe

club, used for dancing

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. red pepper, hot pepper

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Pacific Dtella

Example: via inaturalist.org

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

Highfin parrotfish

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

Scientific name: Scarus longipinnis via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Tripletail wrasse

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

Scientific name: Cheilinus trilobatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

squirrel fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Vermiculated spinefoot, vermiculate rabbitfish

Example: Photo by Rick Winterbottom / FishWise Professional, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Siganus vermiculatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of wild yam (see namhu)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

ant

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of taro, has yellow flesh

Example: Good for roasting

Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n moon crater

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. tapa belt (used to hold up penis wrappers, exchanged during nakwiari dances)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of banana

Example: Eaten ripe

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5156)

Example: This is female type. MJB 5068 is male type. When person has diarrhea with blood (dysentry) take a double handful of leaves and mash them in 2 liter water, boil, drink warm 1 cup 3x day until the condition goes away. Stem used for roofing- attac hes to the rafters so thatching and leaves can be attached.

Scientific name: Polyscias schmidii, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Lemonfish, gold-spotted sweetlips (male)

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

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

n. herb to 2-3 m tall in secondary forest clearing, flowers white with yellow-red corolla. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4724)

Example: this plant is used to make the head lei, Kuanari, to welcome visitors. It is also used as an ornamental around local houses.

Scientific name: Alpinia speciosa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 5-6 m h (collection: Laurence Ramon #318)

Scientific name: Ficus granatum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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: Emmanuel Maasi

n my waist

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. flowering shrub or tree

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Tabernaemontana pandacaqui, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sparsely branched tree, 15 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3232)

Example: Timber. Birds are known to eat this fruit so people can hunt near the tree. Unspecified medicine.

Scientific name: Myristica fatua, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. plant (to be identified)

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Syzygium aneityense, Speaker: Martial Wahe

valley, ravine

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[ne̤wo] n. tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3079)

Example: Used to treat pain. When a baby has an injection in the hospital, such as a vaccine, people take 1 handful of leaves, boil in a small amount of water to concentrate the resulting "juice" that comes out of the leaves, and put this fluid on the site of the pain, the injection, covering it with a leaf for 5-10 minutes, 2-3x daily until the baby stops crying.

Scientific name: Hibiscus tiliaceus, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

small grass skirt plant

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nikinapas] n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3078)

Scientific name: Acalypha wilkesiana, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. blue water tree, used for timber and canoe building, artistic carving

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nɨkərə] n. small tree, 2.5-3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3076)

Example: If a person has a sore body or headache, someone else chews the leaf of this plant and spits the chewed leaf on the specific part of the person where the pain is found. The herb should stick to that part of the body and be applied 1x in the morninig and 1x in the afternoon, leaving the plant on the person as long as it stays.

Scientific name: Breynia disticha, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

the power or the strongest

Speaker: Martial Wahe

steps cut into earth

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. to love

Speaker: Martial Wahe

pond of water

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. trunk of tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3039)

Example: Fuel: Dried wood of this plant is used as firewood. Not: This plant is considered the mountain form. There is another form, Nowaripen, found near the sea.

Scientific name: Ixora aneityensis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. kind of tree, leaves used to set chewed kava on, bark infusions for treatment of coughs

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. inalienable fruit, offspring

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

morning

Speaker: Martial Wahe

soursop fruit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Three-stripe fusilier

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

Scientific name: Pterocaesio trilineata via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

my elder brother

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

bull

Speaker: Martial Wahe

something not straight

(Bislama) kruket

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bag

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n honeycomb

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. pathway

Speaker: Jean Eskar

Giant Moray

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

Scientific name: Gymnothorax javanicus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

kava type

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kava bowl

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of taro

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n nautilus shell. Possibly family Nautilidae

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, Dec. 2017

Speaker: Martial Wahe

flower

Speaker: Martial Wahe

rope

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. branched tree, growing next to Ianarawia ("high hill") settlement (village of Philip Wahe). (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3153)

Example: The leaves of this plant are used by women to make grass skirts. Slice the leaf lengthwise, fold or roll them up, put to dry in sun until it becomes white. At that point it is used to make the grass skirt.

Scientific name: Dracaena sp., Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

whale species

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Spotted Unicornfish

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

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

Bulbnose unicornfish, humpnose unicornfish (deep sea)

Example: Photo by Jean-Lou Justine / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Naso tonganus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

wheelbarrow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5159)

Example: To attract fish in the sea. Take the branches and mix with mashed coconut endosperm, put (throw) in sea and then use line and hook to catch reef fish there.

Scientific name: Phyllanthus, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

village between itapua and kwaraka

Speaker: Martial wahe