Nafe (Kwamera)

v gum (as one’s food)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v avoid, draw back, shrink from

Speaker: Martial wahe

v/a 1. shake (as a tree); 2. shaky, loose, slack

Speaker: Martial wahe

v warm oneself, sit near a fire

Speaker: Martial wahe

v var. of -rukwahagɨn

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v rely on, be sure of, expect that someone will do, depend on, believe in (as a supernatural being)

Speaker: Wahe Martial

feast

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n anchor (of boat)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. to fight with

Speaker: Martial Wahe

type of sea urchin

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

absent minded

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. crab

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n. ancestor

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Aneityumese

Speaker: Martial Wahe

where is your village?

(Bislama) ples blo yu wea.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

today

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Tiger Cowry

Example: via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Cypraea tigris via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

old grandparents

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, growing in disturbed forest/garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3102)

Example: People use this plant for firewood

Scientific name: Hedycarya dorstenioides, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Slender silver-biddy

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

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

n. vine, to 4 m off forest floor (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3260)

Example: This is a famine food. Cut the vine, clean the outside of it, remove bark, put the vines on a hot stone oven, cover with leaves (unspecified) and one hour later the vine is edible.

Scientific name: Entada phaseoloides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

[karwasi] devil that has sex with pigs

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Cardinal Honeyeater

Scientific name: Myzomela cardinalis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n beche-de-mer, sea slug

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Moorish idol

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

Scientific name: Zanclus cornutus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5153)

Example: To make tattoo, draw design and then take youngest emerging stem and rub along design. Follow design and it will burn a design in your skin. Birds eat fruits as do fruit bats.

Scientific name: Alchornea scandens, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Blacksaddle grouper (deep sea)

Example: Photo by J. E. Randall, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

Snubnose grouper (deep sea)

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

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

White-Edged Lyretail

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

Scientific name: Variola albimarginata via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree used for fence posts

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n star

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Humpnose big-eye bream

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

Scientific name: Monotaxis grandoculis via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

cow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. one

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kwanəraj] n. tree, 6-7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3101)

Example: People use this plant as a medicine to treat bad knees. Peel the bark, take 1 handful and put it in a cup of water until the water becomes black. Drink it 3x daily as needed until the knee pain disappears and the knee heals. Children use the seeds as a glue in school work.

Scientific name: Cordia dichotoma, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. tree, 6-7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3101)

Example: People use this plant as a medicine to treat bad knees. Peel the bark, take 1 handful and put it in a cup of water until the water becomes black. Drink it 3x daily as needed until the knee pain disappears and the knee heals. Children use the seeds as a glue in school work.

Scientific name: Cordia dichotoma, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. kind of vine, used as rope

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

coconut leaf spine

Speaker: Martial Wahe

mantis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n moonset

Speaker: Martial wahe

surgeonfish, small with curly pattern

Speaker: Martial Wahe

lizard

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of skink

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of insect, wood boring

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n star constellation

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Acasia spirorbis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Pink ear emperor

Example: Photo by FAO / Fishbase, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

your eye

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3013)

Example: Hunting: Birds are attracted to this plant for their fruits. As a result, hunters gather around this plant when they desire to hunt these birds.

Scientific name: Psychotria milnei, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5128)

Example: Medicine for gonnorhea. Collect two plants and clean their roots, boil whole in 2 liters water, boil 20-40 minutes, drink the mixture hot, 2 cups a day, 3 weeks. This condition presents as a burning in the penis, along with other issues. For heavy cough, take double handful leaf, boil 10-15 minutes in 1 liter water, 2 cups day warm, for 5 days. Pods used to calm children by shaking as rattle, when they are crying.

Scientific name: Cassia, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n thing, object, being

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[naturena] n. epiphyte growing in dense forest, along ridge. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3023)

Example: Ornamental: After one week of being sun-dried, men will place this plant in their arm band (“Tikinapuai”) during katom ceremonies.

Scientific name: Huperzia phlegmaria, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

two days from the present

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. parasite on fallen ficus branch, growing in dense forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3136)

Example: When a person sees this in flower, they know that the taro is ready for harvest. Birds like the fruit and so boys like to hunt the birds near the plant.

Scientific name: Amyema aneityensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. breadfruit

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[nɨŋgare̤me] n. shrub, 4-6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3090)

Example: This plant is known as "fishbone leaf" as the edge of the leaf tears away and the remaining part is serrated. It is a powerful medicine that is secret.

Scientific name: Leea indica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. primary forest

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5123)

Example: Young leaves are edible fresh or can be boiled for 5 min in pot. Can roll young leaves around coconut pieces and eat it with salt. Green fruits edible. Red fruits boiled, salted and eaten.

Scientific name: Ficus scabra, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. royal palm tree

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. large, well branched tree (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4220)

Example: 1. Flying foxes, pidgeons and rats consume the fruits. 2. The wood is used as a commercial timber.

Scientific name: Elaeocarpus angustifolius, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5061)

Example: Use stem to build roof rafters. Before people had matches, this plant was used to light fires by rubbing one stem of this against another piece of the same tree.

Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. handle of axe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

life

Speaker: Martial Wahe

earthquake

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5082)

Example: Wood is very hard and good for making canoe. Wood is good to build house (house posts). Takes seeds from dried fruit, break them open, boil in water and collect oil that rises to the top. This oil used as massage oil. Rub oil from dried seeds in hair to kill lice.

Scientific name: Calophyllum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

canoe parts: sail

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. small tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3132)

Example: Straight stem used for spear shaft

Scientific name: Tapeinosperma, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. tree with spiky red and yellow flowers, not used for anything

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of yam, sweet, edible, white color

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. epiphyte on dead tree in open area at edge of forest and garden. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3138)

Example: Secret medicine--not to discuss

Scientific name: Scyphularia pycnocarpa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

my hair

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of banana

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of kava with many small branches

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of kava with smooth outer bark

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of kava artificially sprouted at an upper node of a planted cutting (large tapuga are exchanged during circumcision feasts)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

book

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Tahitian chestnut

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bait for fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n navel (belly button)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. period of the year preceding the yam harvest (October through March)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial wahe

Ficus sp. (kind of nukwesi)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Claret-breasted Fruit Dove

Scientific name: Ptilinopus viridis lewisii, Speaker: Martial Wahe

awareness or preaching

Example: awareness of health or church gospel

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my vocal chords

Speaker: Martial wahe

n fork in the road

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n youth, circumcised boy up to the age of marriage (i.e., approx. 5 to 18 years of age)

Speaker: Lindstrom 1986

n my sole (of foot)

Speaker: Martial wahe

barracuda (general name)

Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & 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

boiled coconut milk

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of stingray

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of plantain, has large fruits

Example: Used for cooking

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

ray (general)

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

Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. kind of yam, edible, yellow or white color, from New Caledonia

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Roundjaw bonefish

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

Scientific name: Albula glossodanta via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial wahe