Nafe (Kwamera)

v light up

Speaker: Martial wahe

v/a be daylight, dawning

Speaker: Martial wahe

adj. be spoiled, rotten, stink (as food)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v. cut bush for a garden, scratch (one’s head)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v fight with a club, wield a club

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. strive, work at and succeed, go where there is no road, beat through the bush or heavy seas; 2. persevere, go ahead with anyway, pester

Speaker: Martial wahe

v strike down, kill at a blow

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. drop, let go of, throw away, discard; 2. stop doing, leave, die, no longer exist; 3. dodge (as a thrown stone)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v var. of -rukwahagɨn

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v 1. push (as a stalled truck); 2. insert

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v carry by hanging on an elongated object, carry on a pole, carry on a finger

Speaker: Wahe Martial

can you squeeze me or massage me

(Bislama) tra skwisim mi.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. take! or hold! (imperative)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Port Vila

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I catch a fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I pray at the church

(Bislama) mi pray lo churche aos

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

friend

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Collared Kingfisher

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

Scientific name: Todiramphus chloris, Speaker: Martial Wahe

buttocks

Speaker: Martial Wahe

tribal group name

Speaker: Martial Wahe

a small mushroom, grows only on trees, edible when fried, not pliable, difficult to break by hand

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Dory snapper

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

Scientific name: Lutjanus fulviflamma via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of breadfruit, produces small round fruits with small projections (described as small needles) on the outside of the fruit. The tree is very tall

Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

[karwarwar] thunder

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. hot rocks

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Surge grouper (deep sea)

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

Scientific name: Epinephelus socialis via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree. mature green fruit with an abundant white latex, edible (collection: Laurence Ramon #321)

Scientific name: Garcinia pseudoguttifera, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

kind of taro, has reddish-white flesh like a guava fruit, and has a reddish leaf petiole

Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. well branched tree, 10 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3036)

Example: Tools: The roots of this plant are used as a rope to fasten pig’s feet during the kastom ceremony. Landscape: This tree is planted as a shelter tree. Hunting: Pidgeons are known to eat the fruits of this tree. When hunters desire these birds, they will gather near to this tree. Fuel: The dried wood of this tree is used as a firewood.

Scientific name: Ficus kajewskii?, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n vent in Yasur crater

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5166)

Example: For the kastom ceremonies, this can provide the face paint color yellow. Cut open the ripe fruit and paint directly with this. Prior to artificial colors, people used this for yellow and Bixa orellana for red to paint faces and skin.

Scientific name: Dendrobium, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. fruit of the niemis tree

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of banyan tree (var. of ruviru)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

unicorn fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Pacific Dtella

Example: via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Gehyra oceanica via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

n. kind of tree, variety of niemƗs

Speaker: Jean Pascal 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. mango

(Bislama) magko

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n full moon (moon phase)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n moonset

Speaker: 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

penis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

gladness or hug

Example: hug your mother if longtime no see her

Speaker: Martial Wahe

dream

(Bislama) dream

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v tr hate

Speaker: Martial wahe

Ambon emperor

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

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

Slender emperor

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

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

garden

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5160)

Example: Take bundle of stems, put under the sea, with a stone on top, after a week, put the remainder on top of the stone and it will calm the sea. Sore chest from carrying too much wight -- double hanful of leaves, mash into 1 liter water -- drink 1 liter/day for 9 days.

Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. tree with green sweet-smelling flowers

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Pisonia grandis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. palm, Veitchia sp.

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. herb to 2-3 m tall in secondary forest clearing, flowers white with yellow-red corolla. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4724)

Example: this plant is used to make the head lei, Kuanari, to welcome visitors. It is also used as an ornamental around local houses.

Scientific name: Alpinia speciosa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

nail (Bislama?)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

goat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my breath

Speaker: Martial wahe

I am angry

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree to 30 m, dbh 2 m (collection: Michael J. Balick #4738)

Example: Wood is strong and good to make houses with, particuarly house posts. Also good for firewood.

Scientific name: Casuarina equisetifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. sea hearse tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Mountain beetwen yatukwei and High hill

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5015)

Example: Take 1 double handful of leaves, mix with dry coconut, roast in fire -- cover w/ banana leaf, tie up roast in fire for 5-10 min, take it down to the sea and the boys who have been circumcised 2 weeks before wash the sore with it. Dries up sore faster and wash skin and adds a fragrance to it. To treat strong fever, take knife and squeeze stem and put shavings on a leaf take 1 handful and mix with water and fill up a cup and pout into 1 bottle -- in morning and afternoon and consume 1 liter/day repeat for second day fever will do down in a few days.

Scientific name: Dysoxylum aneityense, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5102)

Example: Cook young leaves in water for 5 min and then eat.

Scientific name: Polyscias fruticosa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of vine

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of beach vine

Speaker: Martial Wahe

fat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n vegetable

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5139)

Example: Ornamental plant. Known to be poisonous.

Scientific name: Cascabela thevetia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of taro

Example: Good for roasting in an earth oven and has a very nice taste

Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5129)

Example: Ornamental plant.

Scientific name: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. ordinary kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

his heart

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sandalwood

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Three-Stripe Fusilier

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

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

coconut leaf stalk

Speaker: Martial Wahe

yam trellis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my body

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. 1. kind of tree, 2. bent staff or stick used by toka dancers

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

grass hopper

Ficus sp. (kind of nukwesi)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[posokoni] lightning that stuns or kills fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my molar (tooth)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. father, dad

Speaker: Martial Wahe

my mother died

(Bislama) mami blo mi det

Speaker: Martial Wahe

daylight

(Bislama) delaet

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my esophagus

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. green onions (English shallot)

(Bislama) sarat

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of sugarcane

Speaker: Martial Wahe

clam

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my liver

Speaker: Martial wahe

canoe parts: outrigger float (also denotes people who live close to the sea, as opposed to people who live inland)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. house central post

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5124)

Example: Used for the construction of many things including walls for houses and benches.

Scientific name: Bambusa vulgaris, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. tree, 6 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Claoxylon fallax, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

tomorrow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of yam, thought to be from Wallis and Futuna, considered a “traveling yam” that has gone to many islands. The flesh is somewhat hard and not sweet

Example: Used to make lap-lap to guests and family to welcome them

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

I am fishing with a line

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe