Nafe (Kwamera)

v 1. walk, move, be in motion, go, come; 2. combined with the interrogative prefix -ɨf-, implies how, in what manner; 3. with interrogatie prefix and transitive postclitic, implies where

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. play with, make faces at, coo at (a child); 2. welcome, greet; 3. ask something of, beg something from

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. follow, come behind; 2. do something afterwards

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr boil, toss (as the sea), fizz (as soda), bubble

Speaker: Martial wahe

v gargle, rinse one’s mouth

Speaker: Martial wahe

v drop (as a box or stone), let go of

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. wring, squeeze through a strainer (as kava); 2. walk with a cane

Speaker: Martial wahe

v/a not fear, fearless

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v go away

(Bislama) go lo we

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I cut a sugar cane

(Bislama) mi katem sugar can.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I am sad

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of seaweed

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

baby

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n pollen (of flowers)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. terrestrial fern growing in weedy patch with other herbs at edge of open forest heavily impacted by cyclone. Leaves dimorphic. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3253)

Example: Used as a medicine to treat children who cannot walk. Rub smashed leaves on the knee of a child, "he will walk." For a child about 1 year old, rub the leaves on the knee and underside of the foot. This will make the child walk "easily and quickly." and will make the leg "lighter."

Scientific name: Blechnum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Melanesian Flycatcher

Example: Photo by Tony Morris, License: CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Myiagra caledonica marinae, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. basket made of a woven coconut frond

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. 1. small taro roots, 2. garden (metaphorically)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n gate (made of bamboo)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5065)

Example: Tricks the rat, sees seeds from bottom, but when climbs herb, can’t see it--so name refers to tricking the rat. If a person drinks too much kava over many years, boil 5-6 whole plant for 15 minutes in water (1.5 L) and put in pot, drink 3 cups, 1x / day for 3 days to detoxify the effects of kava. A person who has drunk too much kava over a long time feels it in the body--weak, hard to wake early, appetite is low, body feels heavy.

Scientific name: Phyllanthus imbricatus, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n cicada

Speaker: Martial Wahe

my elder sister

Speaker: Wahe Martial

n. corn

(Bislama) kon

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Humpback grouper

Example: Photo by Richard Zerpe, License: CC BY 2.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Cromileptes altivelis via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Sixblotch hind, saddle grouper (deep sea)

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

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

bamboo tongs to pick up hot rocks from earth oven

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n fish species: possibly lung fish? (is this attested in Vanuatu?)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. semi-inalienable strip of coconut frond used as a rope

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5165)

Scientific name: Sterculia banksiana, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n house component (horizontal poles holding up roof frame)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of small plant with fragrant leaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[ganhɨm] your penis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Ember parrotfish, redlip parrotfish

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

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

Titan triggerfish

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

Scientific name: Balistoides viridescens via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

kind of taro, has yellow flesh

Example: Good for roasting

Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n hail

Speaker: Martial Wahe

plant (to be identified)

(Bislama) nalalas

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Black blotch emperor

Example: Photo by Barry Hutchins / Western Australian Museum, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Lethrinus semicinctus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Ornate emperor

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

Scientific name: Lethrinus ornatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kinds of yam. There are sub-varieties of this that produce tubers with either red or white flesh

Example: Only used for making lap-lap for kastom ceremonies

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

older brother

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5150)

Example: Poisonous plant. Planted near cultivated garden to kill virus in soil.

Scientific name: Volkameria inermis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. traditional house wall of wild cane or bamboo

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of coconut with red shell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. fruit (in general)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree with small white flowers

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of taro, has white flesh. The leaf petiole is dark red

Example: Only used for roasting

Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5111)

Example: Use leaf to line earth oven on top of stones to protect lap lap from burning. If you’re building a bush house in the forest, children can sleep on these leaves in a temporary house.

Scientific name: Microsorum grossum, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. well branched tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3125)

Example: Children from Tanna and throughout Vanuatu use this plant to make a slingshot. As a "medicine," when chickens are ruining your garden, if you plant this plant it will chase away the chickens.

Scientific name: Ervatamia orientalis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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

[nafare] n. tree growing in disturbed forest area along kwataren kastom road. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3095)

Example: The leaves are woven to make mats, hats, baskets, fans. When pollen is released from the flower it is said that fish in the sea are healthy. The roots are used for tying things, pound pieces of root and strip them off and weave into rope. A person can cut a root in a way that makes a brush to paint grass skirts and other objects. This rope can also be used to tie various leaves that are used to cover lap-lap. The leaves can be harvested, the fiber removed and woven into rope.

Scientific name: Pandanus tectorius, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

yesterday

Speaker: Martial Wahe

people, men

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. breadfruit

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

termite

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Ficus scabra, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Croton sp.

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. shrub, 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3258)

Example: A sharpened stick made from this plant is used to take the husk off of coconuts. The wood of this plant is used to make a child’s bow--carve the bark off and bend it with a string made from the banyon (Ficus) tree to both ends of the bow.

Scientific name: Acalypha grandis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

[nikinapus] n. shrub, 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3067)

Example: Young boys make bows from the stems of this plant, and use them for hunting as the wood is hard and strong. If a boy needs a bow urgently, to hunt, he can use this.

Scientific name: Acalypha cf. repanda, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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. terrestrial; leaves up to ca. 2-2.5 m long. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2616)

Scientific name: Calochlaena straminea, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3160)

Example: When a person is growing watermelons, you put a knife in the roots of the watermelon plants, and then cut a stick from this tree and drive it into the roots as well, to ensure greater numbers of watermelons will be grown.

Scientific name: Vitex trifolia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, growing in disturbed forest/garden area.

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Barringtonia asiatica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

pine cone

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. coconut spathe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. fur of mouse or rat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

beginning

Speaker: Martial Wahe

your heart

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bridge

Speaker: Martial Wahe

book

Speaker: Martial Wahe

reef, growing coral

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut parasite

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my eyelashes

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: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. Pisonia umbrellifera tree, very soft wood, big trunk and branches, has black stinging seed pods

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bamboo (used to refer to several introduced species)

(Bislama) pampu

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

West (cardinal direction)

Speaker: Martial wahe

Blue Wanderer

Example: Photo by melianie_and_max / iNaturalist, License: CC0 via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Tirumala hamata via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Forsten’s Parrotfish, Bluepatch Parrotfish

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

Scientific name: Scarus forsteni via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

South (cardinal direction)

Speaker: Martial wahe

Pacific yellowtail emperor

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

Scientific name: Lethrinus atkinsoni via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

kind of fish: spiny puffer?

Speaker: Martial Wahe

how are you?

(Bislama) osem wanem yufala oraet ?

Speaker: Martial Wahe

culture hero name

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[ʰrewi nɨmeri] n. thorn

Speaker: Martial Wahe

women’s bark skirt

Speaker: Martial Wahe

wind direction from the west

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. firefly, (according to Lindstrom 1986, 2. phosphorescent sea algae or fungus)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n path joining village with nakamal

Example: see more on Youtube

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. platform for sitting under

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5047)

Example: To increase milk flow in a nursing mother, take a double handful of leaves and put in 1 liter of water. Drink one bottle twice a day for three days.

Scientific name: Alternanthera brasiliana, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5124)

Example: Used for the construction of many things including walls for houses and benches.

Scientific name: Bambusa vulgaris, Speaker: Johnson Noar

take a life or take care

Example: take a care of something life tdon’t make die for example baby dog

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n island

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Bluespine unicornfish

Example: Photo by Ross D. Robertson / Shorefishes of the Neotropics, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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