Nafe (Kwamera)

   toy ball made of coconut leaf

Speaker: Martial Wahe

   grave

Speaker: Martial Wahe

   buoy used to float fishing nets (Bislama?)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

   turtle shell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

   kind of shell. Possibly genus Vasum.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• shells

n.    well branched tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3091)

Scientific name: Dillenia biflora

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: The leaf can be used to wrap food for carrying, for example, wrapping up crabs.

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Dilleniaceae

   axe (of stone, for traditional canoe carving)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Semantic domains:

• canoe

   lady finger bananas

Scientific name: Bislama

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Semantic domains:

• botany
• banana

   kind of banana, a small banana; very sweet

Scientific name: Musa spp.

Speaker: Johnson Noar

Semantic domains:

• botany
• banana

   sandpiper

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Semantic domains:

• birds

n.    type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5079)

Scientific name: Psidium guajava

Speaker: Johnson Noar

Example: Fruits eaten when they turn yellow and are ripe.

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Myrtaceae

   Common ponyfish

Scientific name: Leiognathus equulus via FishBase

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by John E. Randall / FishBase EOL, License: CC BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Semantic domains:

• fish

   Striped ponyfish

Scientific name: Leiognathus fasciatus, Aurigequula fasciatus via FishBase

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• fish

   Longfin African conger, moustache conger

Scientific name: Conger cinereus via FishBase

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• fish

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

Scientific name: Chamaesyce

Speaker: Johnson Noar

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.

Semantic domains:

• botany

n.    type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5141)

Scientific name: Geophila

Speaker: Johnson Noar

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Rubiaceae

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

Scientific name: Phyllanthus

Speaker: Johnson Noar

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.

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Phyllanthaceae

[ jaku jaku ]

n.    kind of herb (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3165)

Scientific name: Portulaca oleracea

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Semantic domains:

• herb
• botany
• family Portulacaceae

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

Scientific name: Portulaca oleracea

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Portulacaceae

   Iakunwis, home of Nipikinwan tribe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Semantic domains:

• placename

   mullet (fish)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Semantic domains:

• fish

   Milkfish

Scientific name: Chanos chanos via FishBase

Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• fish

   kind of crab

Speaker: Martial Wahe

   squid

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Semantic domains:

• fish

   cephalopods

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[ jare̤mə̤ ]

n.    herb, growing along open garden path. Flowers yellow. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3084)

Scientific name: Bidens pilosa

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Example: This plant is used to treat diarrhea in a baby 1-6 months old. The mother takes 4, 1" pieces and chews them, spitting it into the baby’s mouth 2x daily, once in the morning and once in the afternoon until the diarrhea stops. Sometimes if the baby is sick from a spirit such as a yam, taro or sea spirit, the mother takes 2, 1" pieces of stem and 2, 1" pieces of Acalypha wilkesiana petiole (Plunkett et.al. #3081) and chews the two species together and spits on the affected baby, telling the spirit to "go away and leave the baby alone.

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Asteraceae

n.    herb, growing along open garden path. flowers yellow. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3084)

Scientific name: Bidens pilosa

Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Example: This plant is used to treat diarrhea in a baby 1-6 months old. The mother takes 4, 1" pieces and chews them, spitting it into the baby’s mouth 2x daily, once in the morning and once in the afternoon until the diarrhea stops. Sometimes if the baby is sick from a spirit such as a yam, taro or sea spirit, the mother takes 2, 1" pieces of stem and 2, 1" pieces of Acalypha wilkesiana petiole (Plunkett et.al. #3081) and chews the two species together and spits on the affected baby, telling the spirit to "go away and leave the baby alone.

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Asteraceae

   Iatukwei village

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Semantic domains:

• placename

   fan-tailed cuckoo

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Semantic domains:

• birds

   Spotted Unicornfish

Scientific name: Naso brevirostris via FishBase

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• fish

   octopus

Speaker: Martial Wahe

   stonefish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Semantic domains:

• fish

Speaker: Martial wahe

   Rough triggerfish, poisonous

Scientific name: Canthidermis maculata via FishBase

Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Example: A poison fish which can sometimes be eaten. Photo by Ross Robertson / Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific online information system, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Semantic domains:

• fish
• food

   canoe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: see more on Youtube

Semantic domains:

• canoe
• material culture

   wheeled toy

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Scientific name: Achyranthes aspera

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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.

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Amaranthaceae

   Tiger Cowry

Scientific name: Cypraea tigris via inaturalist.org

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: via inaturalist.org

Semantic domains:

• mollusks

Speaker: Martial wahe

n.    traditional broom

Speaker: Martial Wahe

   sleeping mat of woven pandanus

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n.    coconut development stage 3

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Overripe, can be put into seawater for up to 3 months to ferment, then drunk for intoxication

Semantic domains:

• coconut

n.    rake

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n.    rake

Speaker: Jean Eskar

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

Scientific name: Cyathula prostrata

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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.

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Amaranthaceae

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

Scientific name: Achyranthes aspera

Speaker: Johnson Noar

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.

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Amaranthaceae

n.    terrestrial fern growing in weedy patch with other herbs at edge of open forest heavily impacted by cyclone. Leaves dimorphic. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3253)

Scientific name: Blechnum

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Used as a medicine to treat children who cannot walk. Rub smashed leaves on the knee of a child, "he will walk." For a child about 1 year old, rub the leaves on the knee and underside of the foot. This will make the child walk "easily and quickly." and will make the leg "lighter."

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Blechnaceae

   Collared Kingfisher

Scientific name: Todiramphus chloris

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• birds

   American Cockroach

Scientific name: Periplaneta americana via inaturalist.org

Speaker: Martial wahe

Example: Photo by buggirl13 / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

Semantic domains:

• insects

   Melanesian Flycatcher

Scientific name: Myiagra caledonica marinae

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Tony Morris, License: CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr

Semantic domains:

• birds

   collared kingfisher

Scientific name: Todirhamphus chloris

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Semantic domains:

• birds

n.    a type of fungus that grows on trees, can be fried and eaten

Speaker: Martial Wahe

   t.o Golden Silk Orb-weaver

Scientific name: Nephila tetragnathoides via inaturalist.org

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• arachnids

   t.o. Jumping Spider

Scientific name: Athamas whitmeei via inaturalist.org

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• arachnids

   Dome Web Spider

Scientific name: Cyrtophora moluccensis via inaturalist.org

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• arachnids

   Giant Golden Orbweaver

Scientific name: Nephila pilipes via inaturalist.org

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• arachnids

   Scarlet Percher

Scientific name: Diplacodes haematodes via inaturalist.org

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• insects

   Yellow-striped Flutterer

Scientific name: Rhyothemis phyllis via inaturalist.org

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• insects

   Yellow-banded snapper, hussar

Scientific name: Lutjanus adetii via FishBase

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• fish

   Mangrove red snapper, mangrove jack

Scientific name: Lutjanus argentimaculatus via FishBase

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• fish

   Two-spot red snapper, twinspot snapper, red bass

Scientific name: Lutjanus bohar via FishBase

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• fish

   Moluccan snapper

Scientific name: Lutjanus boutton via FishBase

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• fish

   Spanish flag, stripey

Scientific name: Lutjanus carponotatus via FishBase

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• fish

   Blackspot snapper

Scientific name: Lutjanus ehrenbergii via FishBase

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• fish

   Dory snapper

Scientific name: Lutjanus fulviflamma via FishBase

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Andrew J. Green / Reef life Survey, License: CC-BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Semantic domains:

• fish

   Blacktail snapper

Scientific name: Lutjanus fulvus via FishBase

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by zsispeo, License: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr

Semantic domains:

• fish

   Humpback red snapper, paddletail

Scientific name: Lutjanus gibbus via FishBase

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• fish

   Common bluestripe snapper

Scientific name: Lutjanus kasmira via FishBase

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• fish

   Bigeye snapper

Scientific name: Lutjanus lutjanus via FishBase

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• fish

   Malabar blood snapper, saddletail snapper, large-mouthed nannygai

( Bislama ) Red Snapa

Scientific name: Lutjanus malabaricus via FishBase

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• fish

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

Scientific name: Hedycarya dorstenioides

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: People use this plant for firewood

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Monimiaceae

   Plicate Nerite

Scientific name: Nerita plicata via inaturalist.org

Speaker: Martial wahe

Example: via inaturalist.org

Semantic domains:

• mollusks

   kind of shell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Semantic domains:

• shells

Speaker: Martial wahe

   Vella Lavella White-Eye

Scientific name: Zosterops vellalavella

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Semantic domains:

• birds

n.    type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5109)

Scientific name: Mimosa pudica

Speaker: Johnson Noar

Example: To treat strong fever or flu, boil one handful of stem and leaves in 1 liter of water for 5 minutes. Drink this liquid warm, one cup a day for two days.

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Fabaceae

n.    type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5110)

Scientific name: Leucaena leucocephala

Speaker: Johnson Noar

Example: Leaves fed to pig. Women string the seeds to make necklaces to sell. If the libido of a male is too strong ("bamboo is too strong"), mix juice from leaves and mix with 1/2 L water and drink 2 cups 1 day.

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Fabaceae

n.    Cassias, type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5110)

Scientific name: Leucaena leucocephala

Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Example: Leaves fed to pig. Women string the seeds to make necklaces to sell. If the libido of a male is too strong ("bamboo is too strong"), mix juice from leaves and mix with 1/2 L water and drink 2 cups 1 day.

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Fabaceae

n.    type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5109)

Scientific name: Mimosa pudica

Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Example: To treat strong fever or flu, boil one handful of stem and leaves in 1 liter of water for 5 minutes. Drink this liquid warm, one cup a day for two days.

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Fabaceae

   Teal Emo Skink

Scientific name: Emoia cyanogaster via inaturalist.org

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• reptiles

[ kəkwapu ]

n.    tree, 3-4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2978)

Scientific name: Hedycarya dorstenioides

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Example: Agricultural: When this plant is in flower, it is said that an edible shellfish (Suefa) is ready to be harvested. Light: A dry portion of wood is also used by older men as a "lightstick". Fuel: Two dry sticks are rubbed together as firestarter, in the absence of matches.

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Monimiaceae

n.    tree, 3-4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2978)

Scientific name: Hedycarya dorstenioides

Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Example: Agricultural: When this plant is in flower, it is said that an edible shellfish (Suefa) is ready to be harvested. Light: A dry portion of wood is also used by older men as a "lightstick". Fuel: Two dry sticks are rubbed together as firestarter, in the absence of matches.

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Monimiaceae

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

Scientific name: Hedycarya dorstenioides

Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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.

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Monimiaceae

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

Scientific name: Hedycarya dorstenioides

Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Monimiaceae

n.    type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5028)

Scientific name: Achyranthes aspera

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: To reduce the pain of labor, squeeze double handful of leaves into 1 cup of cool water and give to the mother to drink.

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Amaranthaceae

   kind of crabe

Speaker: Martial wahe

n.    type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5073)

Scientific name: Adiantum

Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Example: To treat scabies, collect 5 whole plants, remove the soil, then boil in a bucket of water for 10-20 min and wash the scabies 2x daily for 2 weeks or until the scabies is dry.

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Pteridaceae

   kind of tree mushroom

Speaker: Martial Wahe

   kind of mushroom

Speaker: Martial Wahe

   general term for fungus

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n.    type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5072)

Scientific name: Melicope

Speaker: Johnson Noar

Example: House posts, rafters, good for building in Tanna. Scrape stem in cup and squeeze with water into a glass to give someone with heavy menstrual bleeding. 1 stem to fill a cup, mix with water, 1 liter /day for 7 days. Shark causes bleeding, maybe the person ate too much shark. This will solve that. This plant is called "medicine of the shark".

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Rutaceae

   kind of seashell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Semantic domains:

• shells
• sea life

n.    type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5161)

Scientific name: Canavalia

Speaker: Johnson Noar

Example: Leaf mixed with Malaxis sp. (MJB 5154) to treat broken bone. Conjunctivitis (pink eye) drip juice from the stem intp the eye 2x day 3 days. Fertility: To cleanse womb squeeze on stem into bottle with water and drink 1L a day for four days to get pregannt.

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Fabaceae

   Deep-bodied silver-biddy

Scientific name: Gerres erythrourus via FishBase

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Rick Winterbottom / FishWise Professional, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Semantic domains:

• fish

   Whipfin silver-biddy

Scientific name: Gerres filamentosus via FishBase

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• fish

   longtail silver-biddy

Scientific name: Gerres longirostris via FishBase

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• fish

   Slender silver-biddy

Scientific name: Gerres oblongus via FishBase

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Semantic domains:

• fish

   Common silver-biddy

Scientific name: Gerres oyena via FishBase

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Andrey Ryanskiy / FishBase, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Semantic domains:

• fish

   kind of sea shell; droga

( Bislama ) Droka

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: eatable shell, boiled in the saucepan or roasted in the fire

Semantic domains:

• shells

n.    type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5164)

Scientific name: Entada phaseoloides

Speaker: Johnson Noar

Example: Fresh vine is collected and used to tie parts of the house together. Can drink water from stem. Fruits-seed used as necklace especially for kastom dance.

Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Fabaceae