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-atia(i)
ia-kesi nukuaii-nahii
kakurai iakurai
konuwak arwerew
White-Edged Lyretail
Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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kwanare-yaku
kwanatis
kwarwasei
n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5120)
Example: When parents go away to a feast or garden, children take a pile of soil 12 in. diameter, put this flower on top, surround wth some ashes and then hide in the house to wait to see if the dwarf spirit appears (Karwase Haruase). Sometimes the spirit will come and then scare the children. Ancestors used these spirits and games to teach children to stay together and not wander alone. As the dwarf spirit will take you.
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nanumi nɨkafai
n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5154)
Example: To treat broken bones combine two handfuls of Commelina diffusa and 2 handfuls of this whole Orchid. Then take half of that and rub on broken bone area (e.g. leg). The Kastom doctor will then make a cut with a sharp piece of bamboo along break. The bone is then wrapped with the leaf of this orchid, then take the pother half of the mixture, mash in water 1.5 liter, and give person to drink. This treatment will help join bone back together.
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natuan
n. large tree, 10-14 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3124)
Example: The wood of this plant smells bad. It is locally called a type of "stink wood." When young children get circumsized in kastom ways, to change the leaves for their bandage, take off the bark of this stem, take the inside part and scrape it--mix a handful of hte scrapings with grated coconut, put it together in a leaf, put it on the fire, heat it, when the coconut is browned, squeeze it together to get the "milk" that is yellow in color. When young children swim in saltwater to dry the cut from the circumcision, squeeze this on that area to help heal it. Another use is to tr
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neirapin
nevau
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.
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ning
n. large grass, growing in disturbed forest/garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3104)
Example: When thatching a house, put the coconut leaves on the crossbars, and then push the stem of this plant into the coconut leaves and bend them over to hold the coconut leaves. Use the stems of this plant as a support for yam vines. Use the stem to make arrows.
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nitei nitei
nkawahai-rea
nkhaourakou
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.
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nurabup
nɨkapáu
nɨkoko
pasuwa
Small Giant Clam
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Caper White
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Filament-Finned Parrotfish
Example: Photo by Leonard Low, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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Green humphead parrotfish, bumphead parrotfish
Example: Photo by Klaus Stiefel / Flickr, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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takiew
Asian Tramp Snail
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tukraus
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.
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ray (general)
Example: Photo by Anne Hoggett / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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Flathead grey mullet, sea mullet, grey mullet
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All content copyright © Nafe (Kwamera) community. (2015)
Nafe (Kwamera) Talking Dictionary produced by Martial Wahe, K. David Harrison, and Jeremy Fahringer (2015-2020).
Botanical consultants: Michael J. Balick, Gregory M. Plunkett, Laurence Ramon, Tom A. Ranker, Sean Thackurdeen, and Calvin Heiman. Field data transcribed by Isabella Mandis.
Nafe language contributors include Martial Wahe, Jean Pascal Wahe, Chief Johnson Noar, Emmanuel Maasi, Marie Emmanuel Maasi and others as credited within the dictionary entries. Based in part on materials from Lindstrom, Lamont (1986) Kwamera Dictionary. Pacific Linguistics. Series C, No. 95. Canberra: Australian National University.
The Nafe-English Talking Dictionary was made possible by award no. 1555675 from National Science Foundation for
“Collaborative Research: Plant, Fungal and Linguistic Diversity of Tafea Province, Vanuatu.” This support is gratefully acknowledged.
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Nafe (Kwamera) Talking Dictionary.
Swarthmore College.
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