Nafe (Kwamera)

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

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. make twine (by rolling on one’s leg or on one’s thigh)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v kick, stub one’s foot

Speaker: Martial wahe

v leap, jump up to, fly off (as a bird), take off (as a plane)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v shadow, shade, eclipse, block light

Speaker: Wahe Martial

drown

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v intr intersect, cross, lie across

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Wahe Martial

don’t climb

Speaker: Martial wahe

v I cut my hand

Speaker: Martial Wahe

turtle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of turtle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. small coconut, coconut fruit bud

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

the northern islands

Speaker: Martial Wahe

you

(Bislama) yu

Speaker: Martial Wahe

holy place

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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n. hoe, adze

Speaker: Martial Wahe

digging stick, taro planting stick

Speaker: Martial Wahe

longtail silver-biddy

Example: Photo by Rainer Kretzberg, License: CC BY 3.0

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

kind of insect (large, sucks nectar)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Common Myna

Example: Photos by Byron Chin / Flickr, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Acridotheres tristis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

pig pen

Speaker: Martial Wahe

her brother

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Camouflage grouper (deep sea)

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

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

Foursaddle grouper (deep sea)

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

Scientific name: Epinephelus spilotoceps via FishBase, 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

[konparɨm] arrow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Blacksaddled coralgrouper (deep sea)

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

Scientific name: Plectropomus laevis via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

grating board for coconut

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of breadfruit, produces a long breadfruit that tastes very good

Example: The stem of the tree is good for making a canoe

Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

num eight

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub (1 to 1,5 m) (collection: Laurence Ramon #322)

Scientific name: Hanslia ormocarpoides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Brassy chub, lowfin drummer

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

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

name of a star constellation

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of shell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my testicle

Speaker: Martial wahe

n morning star (see kofetatea)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. herb to 50 cm, flowers pink (collection: Michael J. Balick #4721)

Example: This plant is used to treat diarrhea. A person takes 1 handful of leaves, washes the soil off, chews them and gets the juice out of the leaves, spits out the fibers and left over parts of the leaves. Chew this regularly until the diarrhea goes away if a person has a bad case; for a mild case, chew only once. It is said that a person has to "listen to the plant" until the diarrhea stops. It is said to be better for this condition than Psidium (guava).

Scientific name: Desmodium, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

baby food

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Barringtonia edulis (Cut Nut Tree)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[nokukəpran] n. herb growing on large rock in open area, in middle of flowing stream. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3117)

Example: People use this plant to treat heartburn and when they get indigestion. Take the leaf and wrap it with Ficus leaves ("manasus" unclear what species), chew them together and swallow the juice until the pain goes away.

Scientific name: Emilia sonchifolia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of banyan tree (var. of ruviru)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. bird trap (pyramidal structure made of wild cane)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Purple-winged Mantis

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

Scientific name: Tenodera australasiae via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Mountain

Speaker: Martial Wahe

listening

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. mulberry

(Bislama) marmeri

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Brown surgeonfish

Example: Photo by David Burdick / via guamreefli License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

Bluelined surgeonfish

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

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

dorsal fin

Speaker: Martial Wahe

ant

Speaker: Martial Wahe

triggerfish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n cliff

Speaker: Martial Wahe

fruit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

fog

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree with green sweet-smelling flowers

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Pisonia grandis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. species of coconut with green nuts

Speaker: Martial Wahe

two days ago

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my vertebrae

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. kind of yam, edible, white or purple color

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree (signals the taro harvest)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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 my nerves

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. plant; giant fern

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Angiopteris evecta, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree to 6 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Morinda citrifoli, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[neke hmup] n. herb to 2 m tall, growing on the edge of a homestead (collection: Michael J. Balick #4723)

Example: This plant is used to lift a person up--take two leaves together and make a "seat" and put it under a person, they can then be lifted up by the two people with a leaf on each side of that person. Use the leaf of this species to wrap rolled leaves of wild tobaco, to protect it and keep it fresh and moist.

Scientific name: Piper methysticum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n volcanic ash plain

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

year

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. tree, 10-12 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3142)

Example: The wood from this tree makes a very good timber. Hunters know that the flying fox and pigeons like to eat the ripe fruits from this tree, so hunt near them when it is ripe.

Scientific name: Elaeocarpus angustifolius, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. banana leaf, frond

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut stage, large sprout

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree (Cerbera odollam) (with poisonous fruit with white sap inside tree and fruit)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. hibiscus

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. wild kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. coconut spathe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of sugarcane, small with brown color, very sweet

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable leaves (usually indicates plurality): plants, plantation, trees, etc.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. edible root plant type

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bait for fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of vine with edible leaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cold, dry season

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of banyan tree, bark used for tapa cloth

Speaker: Martial Wahe

axe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

t.o Gossamer-winged Butterfly

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

Scientific name: Luthrodes cleotas via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

Pacific longnose parrotfish

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

Scientific name: Hipposcarus longiceps via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

alien (from another island, country)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

daughter

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Claret-breasted Fruit Dove

Scientific name: Ptilinopus viridis lewisii, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n low tide

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n honeycomb

Speaker: Martial wahe

[tanaka sori] thank you

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

earth, soil

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of centipede

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of plantain, has large fruits

Example: Used for cooking

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

kind of crab that live only in the beach

Speaker: Martial Wahe

my elder sisiter;s husband

Speaker: Wahe Martial