Nafe (Kwamera)

I cooked taro

(Bislama) mi kukum taro

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I build a house

(Bislama) mi stap workem aos.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I run

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I scratch taro

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I weave a mat or basket

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I brushed the new garden

(Bislama) brasem new garen

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I rake (brush) or weed the herb

(Bislama) go weed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I am happy

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I chew kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I don’t like rain

(Bislama) mi no likem rain

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I eat manioc and taro fiji

(Bislama) mi kakae manioc mo taro fiji

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I sleep

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I climb a tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I eat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I feel a pain in my body

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I drink kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I drink water

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I killed the pig

(Bislama) mi kilim pig

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I planted taro

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I planted kava

(Bislama) mi planem kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

phrase I planted the island cabbage

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I catch a fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I cut the tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I cut a sugar cane

(Bislama) mi katem sugar can.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I cut my hand

Speaker: Martial Wahe

make fire

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I watch the cows

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I paddle a canoe

(Bislama) mi baddle le kenou

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I paddle a canoe

(Bislama) mi badel lo kawenu

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I am listening

(Bislama) mi lisen

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. I see

(Bislama) mi look

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I pray at the church

(Bislama) mi pray lo churche aos

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I run with speed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I pick banana

(Bislama) mi karem banana.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I read a book

(Bislama) mi ridim book

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I am fishing with a canoe or boat...

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I dig taro’s bed for planting

(Bislama) mi tikim hol blo taro

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I dig yam

(Bislama) dikim yam

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I shoot an arrow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I pick the fruit tree of all the fruit

(Bislama) mi pikimap fuit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I pick the fruit tree of all the fruit

(Bislama) mi pikimap fuit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I pick a coconut

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I am sad

Speaker: Martial Wahe

fly

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. lichen

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

phrase I ask you

Speaker: Martial Wahe

thief

Speaker: Martial Wahe

turtle

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 #5141)

Scientific name: Geophila, 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

kind of turtle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Scientific name: Portulaca oleracea, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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

Scientific name: Portulaca oleracea, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. sand fly, 2. sand crab

Speaker: Martial Wahe

child orphans

Speaker: Martial Wahe

boy children

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Iakunwis, home of Nipikinwan tribe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. small tubercles which grow on kava root

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of yam, produces a tuber with white flesh and is easy to grow

Example: Has a spreading habit in the garden. The tuber is soft and easy to boil

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. kind of seaweed

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of coconut with large ’eyes’

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of coconut with reddish fibre

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[ianarɨm] Aneityum Island

Speaker: Martial Wahe

chief

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Lenakel

Speaker: Martial Wahe

mullet (fish)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Milkfish

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

Scientific name: Chanos chanos via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

mullet

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Aneityum

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

me

(Bislama) mi

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. flood, standing water

Speaker: Martial Wahe

flood

Speaker: Martial Wahe

baby

Speaker: Martial Wahe

child

Speaker: Martial Wahe

absent minded

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of crab

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. small coconut, coconut fruit bud

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

a stage of coconut development

Speaker: Martial Wahe

squid

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cephalopods

Speaker: Martial Wahe

day

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

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.

Scientific name: Bidens pilosa, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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

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.

Scientific name: Bidens pilosa, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

crayfish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[iarɨkwever] n. drum

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[iarumanu] chief

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of banana

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

the northern islands

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Iatukwei village

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. a kind of sweet potato

Speaker: Martial Wahe

fan-tailed cuckoo

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. crab

Speaker: Jean Eskar

Spotted Unicornfish

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

Scientific name: Naso brevirostris via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[jerema se menari] jungle devil

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. devil

Speaker: Martial Wahe

water devil

Speaker: Martial Wahe

sea devil

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[jarmaveis] big devil

Speaker: Martial Wahe