Nafe (Kwamera)

v var. of -fwini

Speaker: Martial wahe

v start, be surprised by something

Speaker: Martial wahe

v gum (as one’s food)

Speaker: Martial wahe

kill dog

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. to clean brush, sweep or weed a garden, to clean for preparation, like kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

peeled taro (skin out)

(Bislama) skinimtaro

Speaker: Martial Wahe

can you squeeze me or massage me

(Bislama) tra skwisim mi.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. marigold

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

I rake (brush) or weed the herb

(Bislama) go weed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I eat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Lenakel

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

star pattern

Speaker: Martial Wahe

t.o Golden Silk Orb-weaver

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

Scientific name: Nephila tetragnathoides via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Humpback red snapper, paddletail

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

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

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5072)

Example: House posts, rafters, good for building in Tanna. Scrape stem in cup and squeeze with water into a glass to give someone with heavy menstrual bleeding. 1 stem to fill a cup, mix with water, 1 liter /day for 7 days. Shark causes bleeding, maybe the person ate too much shark. This will solve that. This plant is called "medicine of the shark".

Scientific name: Melicope, Speaker: Johnson Noar

kind of insect (large, sucks nectar)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kwanjere] n. tree, 12-13 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3089)

Example: The nut inside of the fruit contains sap. Cut a fruit in half and stick it to a person’s arm, and then take it off, put earth on the place where the sap is, and it makes a temporary tatoo that lasts for 3-4 days. This fruit is the best flying fox food, and when the tree has ripe fruits many flying foxes go there to feed, and hunters know this. The fruits are eaten by people as well.

Scientific name: Burckella obovata, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. liana growing on coconuts and ficus trees

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Flagellaria indica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

agreement

Speaker: Martial Wahe

num ten ("five five")

Speaker: 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

n pumice

Speaker: Martial wahe

backbone

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of small plant with fragrant leaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n parrot finch

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. drinking straw (made from immature banana leaves)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

coconut leaf spine

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of edible legume

Speaker: Martial Wahe

beetle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

type of woven pandanus mat with thick strands

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of cassava, has yellow flesh—the name means “yellow curry”

Scientific name: Manihot esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Blue-spotted spinefoot, coral rabbitfish (fresh water)

Example: Photo by BS Thurner Hof / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

Golden-lined spinefoot, lined rabbitfish

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

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

lizard

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of skink

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Peregrine falcon

Scientific name: Falco peregrinus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. plant (to be identified)

(Bislama) nalalas

Speaker: Phillip Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5112)

Example: To make rain, take four branches, mixed with Zingiber zerumbet (5078). Leave for one week until it rots and smells bad. Move it to the land and it will rain. Leaf is used to stop lightning and thunder. Take four leaves mash, cut a forked stick of Natchy (5019) take outer bark off, put in fire to warm it, wrap with leaf, put in ffront of you in ground and when lightning is coming break off the fork and the thunder will stop. Children eat the fruits.

Scientific name: Maesa ambrymensis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

fog

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n drought, lack of rain

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. kind of tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. taro (Colocasia)

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Alpinia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of large fern

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

type of coconut leaf sheath with thick fibres used to strain kava (see nenha)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. herb growing on roadside along coast road. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3168)

Example: This plant can be used to tell the sex of an as yet unborn baby. Two people hold the stem and tear it. If three threads from the corners of the stem come off, the baby will be a boy; if all 4 corners of the stem come off, the baby will be a girl. Two people start tearing the stem from both sides of the cut stem.

Scientific name: Cyperus sp., Speaker: Martial Wahe

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. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5118)

Example: Young stems are used to support the roof of ther house. Use yellow sap for glue. Fruits and flowers eaten by flying fox. Same effect as poison tree, they do not fly correctly, often falling and can be harvested to eat.

Scientific name: Melicope latifolia, Speaker: Johnson Noar

big food festival

(Bislama) bigfala kakae

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5063)

Speaker: Johnson Noar

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: 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 #5122)

Example: Peel stem and chop pieces of stem and pieces of stem of Pipturus argenteus (MB 5121), add fresh water, squeeze in hair, rub head in one direction, do this for one month then hair will turn blond color (for Toka dance) and will also help dreadlocks.

Scientific name: Nothocnide repanda, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. fruit of nikwa

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 vegetable

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5064)

Example: To treat burns, take 8 tips of this fern, chew it and put on as a poutltice on burn itself, leaving it for 2 days. This will dry the sore faster and heal it faster.

Scientific name: Pyrrosia lanceolata, Speaker: Johnson Noar

kind of taro

Example: Good for roasting in an earth oven and has a very nice taste

Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

clay

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. circumcision

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of cone shell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

reef passage, channel

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree, used in traditional medicine

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. hibiscus

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. black kava (stems are black color)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bridge

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable small offshoot tubers

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. ashes for cleaning, ashes after fire

Speaker: Martial Wahe

fruit stalk (as on a banana)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n navel (belly button)

Speaker: Martial wahe

meat

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. luminescent fungi or algae; something bright, sparkling like the lights of the city

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Humphead wrasse (female)

Example: Photo by Anne Hoggett / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Cheilinus undulatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

bamboo (used to refer to several introduced species)

(Bislama) pampu

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

butterfly

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Marbled parrotfish, seagrass parrortfish

Example: Photo Philippe Bourjon / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Leptoscarus vaigiensis via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & 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

Palecheek parrotfish, Japanese parrotfish

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

Scientific name: Chlorurus japanensis via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Steephead parrotfish

Example: Photo by charlie20 / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Chlorurus microrhinos via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. house post outside (

(Bislama) pos

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n. lightning at sea that stuns fish, making them easy to catch

Speaker: Martial Wahe

following day

Speaker: Martial Wahe

my bad luck (1st person poss.)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. the first shoot of any young plant

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my bicuspid (tooth)

Speaker: Martial wahe

his/her mum, his/her mother

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

afternoon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

African Giant Snail

Example: Photo by buggirl13 / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Lissachatina fulica via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

n. tobacco

(Bislama) tapaka

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Jean Eskar

father

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[tikinaʊ] n. small grass growing on large rock in middle of flowing stream. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3113)

Scientific name: Pogonatherum crinitum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[tʰãmijen] n. small tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2984)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood.

Scientific name: Pipturus argenteus, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

club, used for dancing

Speaker: Martial Wahe

boiled coconut milk

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of plantain, has large fruits

Example: Used for cooking

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

Ocellated eagle ray

Example: Photo by Anne Hoggett / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Aetobatus ocellatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Blue trevally (male)

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

Scientific name: Carangoides ferdau via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Yapkapin village, home of Nawasu tribe

Speaker: Martial Wahe