Nafe (Kwamera)

v soar, circle (as a bird)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. flatter, praise; 2. talk duplicitously, act hypocritically, change one’s side in a dispute

Speaker: Martial wahe

v tr warm, dry by fire

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr stop raining, clear

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v. stick magically treated wild cane around garden plants

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v intr dive (as in the sea), skin dive

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v 1. call out, cry out, sound, bark, neigh, ring; 2. cry, weep

Speaker: Martial wahe

v succeed, win, better act or interact such that one comes out ahead (implying another loses), belittle another, be lucky

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v roll (as a cigarette), roll up (as a mat)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. plant modifier word used with yam ("nuk")

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cut your penis

Speaker: Martial wahe

pull the plants

Speaker: Martial wahe

answer

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. French

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Futuna

Speaker: Martial Wahe

snake

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I climb a tree

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I am sad

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adj late

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Collared Kingfisher

Example: Photo by JJ Harrison, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Scientific name: Todiramphus chloris, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n month name (archaic, corresponding to October)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my ass (buttocks)

Speaker: Martial wahe

my headache (pain)

(Bislama) hed blo mi so.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. coconut leaf basket

Speaker: Jean Eskar

thunder

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n named rock formation on Yasur volcano

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. species of liana

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Piper austrocaledonicum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

pig pen

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. epiphytic orchid on tree, growing in dense cloud forest. flowers white. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4219)

Example: The yellow seeds are used are used to paint faces. The use is currently practiced by children and thought to be an archaic use.

Scientific name: Dendrobium, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n type of woven mat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, h= 15 m. young brown elongate fruits with a greyish green fleshy calyx. Thick branchlets with the leaves at the top. White latex. For the locals it is the main kind of burckella obovata (round fruits). (collection: Laurence Ramon #332)

Scientific name: Burckella, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5099)

Example: Fruits edible and sold in market to earn money.

Scientific name: Dracontomelon vitiense, Speaker: Johnson Noar

[konparɨm] arrow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Painted sweetlips (male)

Example: Photo by Dr. Dwayne Meadows / NOAA, License: Public Domain via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Diagramma pictum via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & 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

club, with star shaped head

Speaker: Martial Wahe

before

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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

n. kind of vine

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. inalienable root

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. kind of luminous lichen, fungus, mushroom, 2. sea sponge, 3. soft corals, 4. comb and wattle of a fowl

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n barn owl (Tyto alba)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Brick soldierfish

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

Scientific name: Myripristis amaena via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Violet squirrelfish

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

Scientific name: Sargocentron violaceum via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

lizard

Speaker: Martial Wahe

creek

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n urine

Speaker: Martial wahe

mud

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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.

Scientific name: Malaxis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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

during fight

Speaker: Martial Wahe

tribe name

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Indian coral tree

Scientific name: Erythrina corallodendron, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

disturbance

(Bislama) disteb

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. large tree, 10-14 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Dysoxylum mole, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. epiphyte. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2624)

Example: 1. The plant is used entirely to produce grass skirts, known as raus. First the plant is retted in hot water and left to sun dry. Then portions of the plant are sewn together or draped over a waist band to form an ankle-length skirt.

Scientific name: Phlegmariurus oceanianus, 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

n. plant (to be identified)

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Syzygium aneityense, Speaker: Martial Wahe

large grass skirt plant

Speaker: Martial Wahe

excrement

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of thick grass

Speaker: Martial Wahe

tribe name

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2975)

Example: Animal Feed: The whole plant is fed to pigs to keep them fat and healthy. It is referred to as “pig medecine” and is given once per week.

Scientific name: Cyrtandra obovata, 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, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3010)

Example: Construction: The timber of this plant is used as a hardwood for any part of a house. It is considered one of the finest woods for this purpose. Ornamental: Branches of this tree are used to create carvings.

Scientific name: Fagraea berteroana, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5067)

Example: Stem to make house posts. Put fruits in with sweet potato when planting to enable the sweet potato to yield a good crop.

Scientific name: Macaranga, Speaker: Johnson Noar

heart

Speaker: Martial Wahe

my heart

Speaker: Martial Wahe

canoe parts: outrigger spar, boom

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. mistletoe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable small offshoot tubers

Speaker: Martial Wahe

air

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n moonlight

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bush

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Bleeker’s parrotfish

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

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

my younger brother’s daughter (my niece)

Speaker: Wahe Martial

kind of fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. black pig

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Ficus sp. (kind of nukwesi)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

good morning

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[rɨŋkew] n. understory tree growing in area of Ianarawia ("high hill") settlement (village of Philip Wahe). (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3154)

Example: This tree is poisonous to goats, cattle-if they eat it they will die. The wood is used to make rafters for houses as well as burned as firewood.

Scientific name: Trema cannabina, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

frigate bird?

Speaker: Martial Wahe

home

Speaker: Martial Wahe

wind direction from the west

Speaker: Martial Wahe

fork (as in a tree)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut lorikeet

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I fight you, you gonna pee

(Bislama) bae mi faetem you bae you pispis.

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. 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: Johnson Noar

Banded Sea Krait

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

Scientific name: Laticauda colubrina via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

father

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sea

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. small flying fox

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Emperor Nautilus

Example: via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Nautilus pompilius via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

kind of land crab

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of centipede

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I love my mum

(Bislama) mi likem mami blo mi

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of yam, has white flesh, soft and sweet, with a very large tuber, and is easy to grow

Example: If it grows in good conditions, the tubers are so large that it takes two people to carry it on a pole

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar