Nafe (Kwamera)

v var. of -fwini

Speaker: Martial wahe

v curse

Speaker: Martial wahe

v wring, wring out (as kava from a strainer), squeeze by hand

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. twine (by rolling on one’s leg), file, rub out, hone

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v reflect, mirror, look in a mirror

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v 1. edge, weave a border (of a basket or mat); 2. be full (as a container of liquid), come up to the edge of a container; 3. conclude (as a discussion), reach an agreement; 4. whip, strike with a rope or stick

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. flow (as water), blow, push before (as the wind); 2. feel the need to urinate or defecate

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v intr clear (as the sky), break up (as clouds) dawn

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v 1. call out, cry out, sound, bark, neigh, ring; 2. cry, weep

Speaker: Martial wahe

v I run

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. small coconut, coconut fruit bud

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. crab

Speaker: Jean Eskar

phrase where you going?

(Bislama) you go wea

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Humpback red snapper, paddletail

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

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

Malabar blood snapper, saddletail snapper, large-mouthed nannygai

(Bislama) Red Snapa

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

Scientific name: Lutjanus malabaricus via FishBase, 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. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5161)

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.

Scientific name: Canavalia, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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

bat (flying fox)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. flying fox

Speaker: Martial Wahe

large, black supernatural fowl which crows at the end of the day

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5153)

Example: To make tattoo, draw design and then take youngest emerging stem and rub along design. Follow design and it will burn a design in your skin. Birds eat fruits as do fruit bats.

Scientific name: Alchornea scandens, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Netfin grouper (deep sea)

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

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

Red-tipped grouper (deep sea)

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

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

n. tree with a dense crown and edible fruit

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Burckella obovata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

kind of yam, produces tubers with white flesh. It is fast-growing and produces a large bunch of tubers

Example: Very sweet and sticks to the teeth when eaten

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

traditional spoon

Speaker: Martial 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 star

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n month name (archaic) corresponding to August

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Greasy grouper (reef fish)

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

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

brain coral

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kwanəraj] n. tree, 6-7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3101)

Example: People use this plant as a medicine to treat bad knees. Peel the bark, take 1 handful and put it in a cup of water until the water becomes black. Drink it 3x daily as needed until the knee pain disappears and the knee heals. Children use the seeds as a glue in school work.

Scientific name: Cordia dichotoma, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[kwanapwɨt] n. herb growing on roadside along coast road. Flowers bluish-purple. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3164)

Example: The leaves of this plant are used to treat diarrhea. Take a handful of leaves, chew them and suck out the liquid and swallow it, then spit out the fiber and all that remains in the mouth. Also known to be good as a cattle feed.

Scientific name: Desmodium canum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of bird trape ( triangle shape)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n parrot finch

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. species of orchid

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Dendrobium mohlianum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

boy (uncircumsized)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Humphead wrasse

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

Scientific name: Cheilinus undulatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Yellow Oriental Paper Wasp

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

Scientific name: Polistes olivaceus via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

dream

(Bislama) dream

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my scalp

Speaker: Martial wahe

goat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my large intestine

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. species of coconut with green nuts

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree, used in canoe construction

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

evening

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5126)

Scientific name: Phymatosorus scolopendria, Speaker: Johnson Noar

lightning

Speaker: Martial Wahe

two days from the present

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[ne̤pa̤rɨm] n. vine, growing in disturbed forest/garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3103)

Example: Before there were many root crops such as taro and cassava, people would use the roots of this plant as a food, after roasting it in the fire. The roots are said to be very large and edible.

Scientific name: Pueraria lobata, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[nijer] 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: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5092)

Example: Wood is hard to make house posts. Stem to make bow for hunting birds, fruit bat.

Scientific name: Casuarina equisetifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

exchange partner

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3078)

Scientific name: Acalypha wilkesiana, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. coconut spathe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

life

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree with stinging leaves (Semecarpus vitiensis)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. shrub to 1.5 m, flowers white (collection: Michael J. Balick #4728)

Example: The leaves of this plant are used to make a women’s grass skirt. Men use these leaves to put in a band around the arm as decoration. These leaves are also used to tie a kava root for a ceremony in the nakamal. For kastom ceremony, take coconut endosperm, chew with this leave and covery body. It makes the body smell very nice. When a person has a fever, mix this leaf with other leaves including Annona muricata and Citrus species. Then the person sits over a steaming pot and inhales it to reduce the fever and symptoms. If you need to go to a "tabu" place, where the spirit can mak

Scientific name: Euodia hortensis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Numrukwen moiety

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. bed, copra bed

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5067)

Example: Stem to make house posts. Put fruits in with sweet potato when planting to enable the sweet potato to yield a good crop.

Scientific name: Macaranga, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. fruit of nukwesi

Speaker: Martial Wahe

name of a star constellation

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5076)

Example: Leaves used in cooking to flavor soup. To cure sore known as "yaush" that is the size of a 50 vatu coin or larger, take 2-3 branches, collect leaves, put in pot, and warm. Wash the sore 3x day wash for 1-2 weeks. This disease is caused by flies and mosquitos. Yaush is the English name. Mosquito or fly bites the person, passes worm similar to filariasis, then a boil erupts and scratch it becomes big sore. Dry leaves and flowers, put in tin, and light it up to keep mosquitoes away. The smoke from this burning plant chases away mosquitoes like a coil.

Scientific name: Ocimum, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. Kwamera language

Speaker: Martial Wahe

darkness

Speaker: Martial Wahe

who? (singular)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

who? (plural)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree (Pometia pinnata)

(Bislama) nantao

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Spotted Crow Eggfly

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

Scientific name: Hypolimnas antilope via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

Great Eggfly

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

Scientific name: Hypolimnas bolina via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Lined surgeonfish

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

Scientific name: Acanthurus lineatus via FishBase

n parrotfish (general)

(Bislama) napoleon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

throw the stone

(Bislama) sakem stone

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my molar (tooth)

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

exchange relation

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Giant Moray

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

Scientific name: Gymnothorax javanicus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

coconut development stage 1

Example: Very small, not ready to eat or for any other use

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. a type of banana, often fermented to make banana beer

Speaker: Martial Wahe

father

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of taro

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of shell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n fish species: possibly a type of grouper

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, pale bark with vertical lines of lenticels. (collection: Laurence Ramon #330)

Scientific name: Claoxylon, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n family, household

Speaker: Lindstrom 1986

n. inalienable 1. classifier word for supporting aerial roots (as of a banyan, pandanus), 2. thorn

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Elongate unicornfish, slender unicornfish (deep sea)

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

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

Ribbontail stingray

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

Scientific name: Taeniura lymma via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & 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

Blue trevally (male)

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

Scientific name: Carangoides ferdau via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Green Sea Turtle

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

Scientific name: Chelonia mydas via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

shellfish type

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n dwarf, midget

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. transitive to strip like leaves, or pinch off

Speaker: Martial Wahe