Nafe (Kwamera)

v 1. rub, rub off, scrub, clean by scrubbing, wash; 2. rub against

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. make twine (by rolling on one’s leg or on one’s thigh)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v close (as a door)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v remember, recall, think about, ponder

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr make war, fight (as local groups)

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v warm, light a fire to warm a sick person, newborn baby, or new house

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v divide, separate, cut in half, come between (as two fighting men)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v use a pillow, sleep on a traditional wooden pillow

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. prepare, make ready (implies secrecy?); 2. act alone or anti-socially, avoid agreement

Speaker: Wahe Martial

cut my penis( circumsision)

Speaker: Martial wahe

go sit down

Speaker: Martial wahe

adj. distant, far

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3226)

Example: This is a "calendar plant," tied to the sea. When it flowers, it is time to harvest sea urchins. The dry wood is used to mke a fire when a person has no matches.

Scientific name: Hedycarya dorstenioides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n house component (vertical poles supporting thatching)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of sweet potato

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of yam, produces tubers with red, hard, sweet flesh

Example: Used for kastom ceremonies as it has a large bundle of tubers

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

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

Whitespotted grouper

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

Scientific name: Epinephelus coeruleopunctatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

v vers

(Bislama) vesem

Example: joined something like robe or joined relationship between two people.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4233)

Example: 1. The inner skin of the stem is used to weave grass skirts and nambas. 2. Pidgeons eat the fruits.

Scientific name: Wikstroemia indica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n small stones, pebbles

Speaker: Martial Wahe

my elder sisiter’s son

Speaker: Wahe Martial

club, with serrated edges

Speaker: Martial Wahe

baby food

Speaker: Martial Wahe

fish hook

Speaker: Martial Wahe

roots of pandanus

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of yam, produces tubers with white flesh, that are soft and sweet

Example: Only used in soup. The origin of this variety is thought to be Fiji, and the local name means “From Fiji”

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

noun a dried leaf used to ceremonially wrap kava root

Example: see more on Youtube

n moonset

Speaker: Martial wahe

Mountain

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of breadfruit, produces a large fruit with a smooth skin and very sweet flesh

Example: When a person eats it, the teeth feel sticky

Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

kind of cassava, produces a tall plant with small roots

Example: Small roots are roasted in the earth oven or over the fire

Scientific name: Manihot esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. mandarin orange, tangerine

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kava type

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Shadowfin soldierfish

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

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

Spotted parrotfish (deep sea)

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

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

ghost

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Longface emperor

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

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

older brother

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Ringtail surgeonfish

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

Scientific name: Acanthurus blochii via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. 1. kind of tree, 2. small plant with red flowers (var. of nanas), the sap is dangerous it can cause a rash

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my eye

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. kind of tree (var. of napa)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[napwejsen] n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3140)

Example: The wood from this tree makes strong house posts as well as timber for benches and can be used as firewood. If you don’t have soap, you can take the leaf, mash it up and wash with it--it produces a foam that cleans. Use for washing yourself, for example. If this tree has fruits, then people know that it is a good time to plant sweet potatoes and other crops.

Scientific name: Alphitonia zizyphoides, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n weather forecast

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Black-and-White Snapper

Example: Photo by dachalan / Flickr, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Macolor niger via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. a poison tree, has orange and white flowers, you must wash hands if you touch it

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. clouds

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. stage 5 in the development of coconuts, a ripe nut, dry and brown on outside, with developed flesh which falls from the tree, not good for eating but used for pressing coconut oil

Speaker: Martial Wahe

a “female” coconut that only has one fruit on the panicle of the inflorescence

Example: This variety is used for the kastom marriage ceremony, grated with Euodia hortensis and Alpinia purpurata and rubbed on the bride and groom. The significance of this kastom is to ensure that the two people will be truthful to their chief, their parents and their spouse

Scientific name: Cocos nucifera, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. kind of tree with small white flowers

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[naswajoʊ] n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3108)

Scientific name: Ficus, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

advice

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5049)

Example: Used for house posts, rafters, and other construction-- very good for building in Tanna. Scrape the stem and put the pieces into a cup. Squeeze these pieces through with water, pour into a glass, and give to someone with heavy menstrual bleeding. 1 stem used to fill a cup, and drink one liter a day forone week. It is thought that shark meat causes bleeding. This will solve that. This plant is called "medicine of the shark".

Scientific name: Melicope, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3026)

Example: Hunting: The wood of the tree is used, as the body of a spear, to hunt fishes and turtles. To fashion the spear, an appropriate length of wood is cut, debarked, heated (to straighten) and then topped with an iron point. Note: Iaruman is the name of the male form of this plant. Prane is the female form of this plant.

Scientific name: Rapanea amischocarpa, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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

blood

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Ficus scabra, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n bone

Speaker: Martial wahe

[nima purupuo] n. chief’s round house

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n. fern, used for tying bundles of wild cane in house construction

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. belt and penis wrapper

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5158)

Example: When a person is stung by a jellyfish, take 5-6 leaves and whip the sore for 5-10 minutes and this will reduce the soreness of the wound.

Scientific name: Ipomoea pes-caprae, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n sunbeam

Speaker: Martial wahe

pine cone

Speaker: Martial Wahe

exchange of birds

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of pandanus

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n my heart

Speaker: Martial wahe

his heart

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. dragon plum (Dracontomela vitiense)

(Bislama) nakatambol

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. driftwood

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut parasite

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. ashes for cleaning, ashes after fire

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Dark-Banded Fusilier, Neon Fusilier

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

Scientific name: Pterocaesio tile via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

wrasse (general name)

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut leaf stalk

Speaker: Martial Wahe

fish net

Speaker: Martial Wahe

1. night, 2. day (24 hour period)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Painted sweelip, dotted sweetlips (male)

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

Scientific name: Plectorhinchus picus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

South (cardinal direction)

Speaker: Martial wahe

Grass emperor

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

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

n. kind of Tahitian chestnut

Speaker: Martial Wahe

hold or take something

Example: young people hold chew kava to drink. or old people walking with walking stick

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. ?? s/he asks you

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n sound

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. mother, mama

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. mother (my)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[tras] n. shrub to 1 m tall, flowers red. Ornamental plant in homestead garden. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4735)

Example: Ornamental plant

Scientific name: Rosa chinensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of banana

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5040)

Example: Fruits edible. People drinking kava eat a fruit after drinking. Say that it makes kava stronger. Boil leaves with Euodia (MJB 5031) when a person has a strong cough to cure it. Double handful of each plant in 1 liter water and boil for 20 minutes. Wash your with it and drink 1 cup in evening (cold) for 4 days.

Scientific name: Annona muricata, Speaker: Johnson Noar

coconut scoop

Speaker: Martial Wahe

yam mound

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of shell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

devil

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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.

Scientific name: Dracaena sp., Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

your belly pain

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n house component, eaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n family, household

Speaker: Lindstrom 1986

Dash-and-dot goatfish

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

Scientific name: Parupeneus barberinus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Doublebar goatfish

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

Scientific name: Parupeneus crassilabris via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe