Nafe (Kwamera)

v 1. lean against; 2. believe in, depend on

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v shoot (a gun) together; throw (rock or stick) simultaneously

Speaker: Martial wahe

v hang, hang up, tie up

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr move, act, stand or leave simultaneously

Speaker: Martial wahe

ceremony

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adj. slippery

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v cut the hood branches

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of shell. Possibly genus Vasum.

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, Dec. 2017

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. (collection: Michael J. Balick #5107)

Example: For Asthma, take one handful of shaved stem with 1/2 L water. Boil in a pot 5-10 minutes, a drink 1 warm cup two times a day for one week.

Scientific name: Chamaesyce, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5159)

Example: To attract fish in the sea. Take the branches and mix with mashed coconut endosperm, put (throw) in sea and then use line and hook to catch reef fish there.

Scientific name: Phyllanthus, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. herb growing on roadside along coast road. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3165)

Scientific name: Portulaca oleracea, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5108)

Example: When woman does not have period for 2-3 months and is pregnant, people say the lizard could eat the baby. To avoid this, boil a handful of stem shavings in 1/2 L water, for 6 minutes and give this drink to the woman twice a day for 5 days. Then the bleeding will stop. There are also dietary restrictions: no coconut, oil, salt, curry. The woman can also not swim in sea for 5 days. But the baby will be healthy if these instructions are followed.

Scientific name: Achyranthes aspera, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sprawling herb, with erect flowering stems (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3237)

Example: Children take the inflorescence of this plant and use it to find and poke lizards hiding in the bush. For treatment of an unspecified spiritual sickness, chew 2, 2" pieces of the stem to get rid of the sickness, spitting the material on the hair and body of an ill person; use only 1 time.

Scientific name: Cyathula prostrata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

cup

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my headache (pain)

(Bislama) hed blo mi so.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n cricket

Speaker: Martial Wahe

stage of coconut development

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree with edible leaves

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. sapling, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4235)

Example: 1. When in flower, it is s a good time to hunt swefa, a type of sea mollusc.

Scientific name: Hedycarya dorstenioides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. coconut leaf basket

Speaker: Jean Eskar

fungus, small white

Speaker: Martial Wahe

general term for fungus

Speaker: Martial Wahe

longtail silver-biddy

Example: Photo by Rainer Kretzberg, License: CC BY 3.0

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

n. 1. small taro roots, 2. garden (metaphorically)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

traditional road name

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

[kawəwə] n. sparsely branched tree, 7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3044)

Example: Ceremonial: During a large kastom ceremony ("Nakwyari"), a branch of this plant is used to sweep the nakamal before the toka dance.

Scientific name: Meryta neo-ebudica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. tree, small

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Meryta neo-ebuca, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. thunder

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of insect (large, sucks nectar)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n name of a culture hero

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. fungus type

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, Oct. 2016

Speaker: Martial Wahe

wooden bench

Speaker: Martial Wahe

a kind of honeyeater, Wattled Honeyeater

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Broadbilled Flycatcher

Scientific name: Myiagra caledonica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. species of liana

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Piper austrocaledonicum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

fan

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Oriental sweetlips

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

Scientific name: Plectorhinchus vittatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

tribe name

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kwanrares] n. liana growing into canopy of dysoxylum, in open (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3034)

Scientific name: Lygodium reticulatum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Variable Goshawk

Example: Photo by olanuxer / Flickr, License: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Accipiter hiogaster, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n month name (archaic) corresponding to September

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kwenasənas] n. epiphyte growing on neonauclea forsteri trunk, about 2-3 m above ground (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2977)

Example: Ornamental: The tiny seeds, appearing as a powder, are used to decorate one’s face during kastom ceremonies. The plant is used when the fruit is yellow.

Scientific name: Dendrobium, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n larva

Speaker: Martial wahe

n volcano bomb

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n. garden clearing (marked by dead, leafless trees)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of shellfish

Scientific name: Strombiadae sp.?, Speaker: Martial Wahe

basket, flat with two handles

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Elongate surgeonfish (sea)

Example: Photo by Paddy Ryan / www.ryanphotographic.com, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

Brown surgeonfish

Example: Photo by David Burdick / via guamreefli License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Acanthurus nigrofuscus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of insect, wood boring

Speaker: Martial Wahe

death

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n. type of plant

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Pacific yellowtail emperor

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

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

Spangled emperor

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

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

[nameramir] n. liana, growing on myristica fatua in dense forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3041)

Example: Construction: The vine of this tree is used as rope to fasten members of a house or bundles of sugar cane. It is not considered a strong rope.

Scientific name: Hoya australis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. tree, 6-8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3262)

Example: Feed pigs with the bark of this tree, and mix it with pig food as well. When eaten, this bark will help make the pig grow fat. When the fruits are ripe, they get sticky and this can be used to trap birds. Put these fruits around a cut up papaya, and put that in a clear place--when the birds come to eat the papaya they get stuck by the fruits and can be caught.

Scientific name: Pisonia umbellifera, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

[napre:rɨp] n. terrestrial herb, 0.5 to 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3028)

Example: Ecological: This plant, which grows near streams, is known to hold water during the dry season. If the plant is harvested, then it is known that the stream will not continue to run. Thus, precaution is taken to keep this plant in good health.

Scientific name: Elatostema macrophyllum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

tattoo

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nakəskəs apran] n. small fern growing on decaying log in dense forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3121)

Scientific name: Asplenium cf. caudatum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5077)

Example: Stem used to make canoe. Easy to cut.

Scientific name: Hernandia nymphaeifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. heat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. small sapling, 1.5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3029)

Example: Fuel: Firewood Construction: Used to construct posts for houses. Tools: Wood is used to fashion handles for axes. Hunting: Wood is used to make the limbs of a bow. It is not considered the most suitable wood for this purpose.

Scientific name: Garcinia pseudoguttifera, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[narɨr] n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2972)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Fish Poison: To help catch fish, a bundle of leaves are squeezed and placed in a stream. After some time, the fish appear stunned and are caught.

Scientific name: Leucosyke australis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. fern used as chicken feed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. a kind of sugarcane, small

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. to love

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. epiphyte growing on a main branch of a glochidion tree, 2-3 m above ground (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3073)

Example: People use this to treat skin sores, by boiling a handful of leaves in a small amount of water and washing the sores with this. Wash 2-3x daily until the sore is better. It may take 3-4 weeks to heal the sore.

Scientific name: Pyrrosia, 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

n. epiphyte on trunk of ficus tree, growing in dense forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3128)

Example: Unspecified secret medicine

Scientific name: Belvisia revoluta, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. circumcision

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable stems with leaves of plants such as cane or banana

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of liana

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. mistletoe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of sugarcane (see -mƗmis)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nɨpunɨpun] spider web

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree (used for house posts)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Asian Magpie Moth

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

Scientific name: Nyctemera baulus via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Caper White

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

Scientific name: Belenois java peristhene via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Fuscous Swallowtail

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

Scientific name: Papilio fuscus via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

Monarch

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

Scientific name: Danaus plexippus via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

n rudder (of boat)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. kind of wild mandarin, orange color

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. black pig

Speaker: Martial Wahe

quantity of five coconuts

Speaker: Martial Wahe

good morning

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v cut

(Bislama) katem

Example: cut hood, or something

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of sugarcane

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. herb, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3250)

Example: Children shoot the small hard seeds through a bamboo tube at lizards and butterflies, as a sort of game.

Scientific name: Canna indica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5098)

Example: Leaves used to cover laplap and wrap and boil in pot. Kids use papaya petiole to shoot seeds -- game of hide and seen called chung.

Scientific name: Canna indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5132)

Example: Flower for decorating things like at marriage, church, opening of new building like dispensary. Ancient people, when needed water, take stem, mash 4-6 pieces and squeeze into coconut shell and drink it. So squeeze the stems together after mashing them along their entire length with wood post. This can be used to collect water today when a person is in the forest and thirsty. Leaves wrap banana laplap. Put in saucepan boil 20 minutes, toss out water, take leaf off and eat laplap. Leaf folded not tied. People say its native to Vanuatu

Scientific name: Heliconia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

your belly pain

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n a type of lobster: Caledonian mitten lobster, a.k.a. slipper lobster (Parribacus caledonicus)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Green jobfish

(Bislama) Salmon Fis

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

Scientific name: Aprion virescens via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[waɨsaisa] small devil with big penis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Little spinefoot, scribbled rabbitfish

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

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

v. transitive to strip like leaves, or pinch off

Speaker: Martial Wahe