Nafe (Kwamera)

v crawl, walk carefully (as on a narrow path or cliff edge)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. weigh, scale, measure, measure out; 2. hook down (as a coconut with a bamboo pole)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr hoot, screech, call (as a bat), creak

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. come from, start at (as a place); 2. in interrogative constructions: which, where

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v curse

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v intr see

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr dive (as in the sea), skin dive

Speaker: Wahe Martial

put in order

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n anchor (of boat)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. bite out or scrape with teeth

Speaker: Martial Wahe

pull the plants

Speaker: Martial wahe

n airport

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Port Vila

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snake

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v I eat

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cephalopods

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adj. distant, far

Speaker: Martial Wahe

boy

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t.o Golden Silk Orb-weaver

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

Scientific name: Nephila tetragnathoides via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Plicate Nerite

Example: via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Nerita plicata via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

n. type of flowering plant; box bean or St. Thomas’ bean

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Entada phaseoloides, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. interior house cross post

Speaker: Jean Eskar

a children’s game

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Brown Fantail

Example: Photo by flyingkiwigirl / Flickr, License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Rhipidura drownei, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of taro

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

her sister

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n type of woven mat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n mosquito larva

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Snubnose grouper (deep sea)

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

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

coconut stage, 6th (sixth); has a small sprout

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kwanokuma] n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2976)

Example: No use disclosed.

Scientific name: Melastoma malabathricum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n my testicle

Speaker: Martial wahe

initial stage of coconut development

Example: Coconut fruit bud

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bead

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Pacific Dtella

Example: via inaturalist.org

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

type of woven coconut frond mat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

brown pheasant dove

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Tanna fruit dove

Example: Photo by Doug Janson / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Scientific name: Ptulinopus tannensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n new moon (moon phase)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Violet squirrelfish

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

Scientific name: Sargocentron violaceum via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

house fish or cave fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nakua tanna] riverbed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n moon crater

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v tr hate

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Ornate emperor

Example: Photo by Digital Archives of Taiwan / via catalog.digitalarchi License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Lethrinus ornatus 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

[namrami:ri] n. tree, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3001)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Construction: The timber of this plant is used to create any part of a house. It is considered a strong wood. Hunting: Pidgeons are attracted to this plant for their fruit. As a result, hunters gather around this plant when they desire to hunt the pidgeon.

Scientific name: Phyllanthus ciccoides, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of cycad (?)

Example: To make a tabu sign for your land, crops or to block access to the sea, meaning that this area is blocked from fishing and diving, cross two of the leaves in an “X” shape and stick in the soil or sand. People will know to stay away

Scientific name: Microcycas semannii, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Harry hotlips (female)

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

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

play, game

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of yam, has tubers with two colors in the same root—both white and red and is sweet and soft

Example: Is a special yam for paying dowry

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. something to do

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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: Martial Wahe

n. sugarcane

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree (signals the taro harvest)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. sparsely branched tree, 15 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3232)

Example: Timber. Birds are known to eat this fruit so people can hunt near the tree. Unspecified medicine.

Scientific name: Myristica fatua, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my nerves

Speaker: Martial wahe

[nafare] n. tree growing in disturbed forest area along kwataren kastom road. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3095)

Example: The leaves are woven to make mats, hats, baskets, fans. When pollen is released from the flower it is said that fish in the sea are healthy. The roots are used for tying things, pound pieces of root and strip them off and weave into rope. A person can cut a root in a way that makes a brush to paint grass skirts and other objects. This rope can also be used to tie various leaves that are used to cover lap-lap. The leaves can be harvested, the fiber removed and woven into rope.

Scientific name: Pandanus tectorius, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[nakɨskɨs] n. parasite on fallen ficus branch, growing in dense forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3136)

Example: When a person sees this in flower, they know that the taro is ready for harvest. Birds like the fruit and so boys like to hunt the birds near the plant.

Scientific name: Amyema aneityensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5123)

Example: Young leaves are edible fresh or can be boiled for 5 min in pot. Can roll young leaves around coconut pieces and eat it with salt. Green fruits edible. Red fruits boiled, salted and eaten.

Scientific name: Ficus scabra, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nɨkɨskɨs] n. parasitic epiphyte growing on upper branches of fagraea berteroana, in dense forest along ridge. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3012)

Example: Hunting: Birds are attracted to this plant for their flowers. As a result, hunters gather around this plant when they desire to hunt these birds.

Scientific name: Amyema aneityensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. lower part of coconut leaf stem

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of yam, edible, white color

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of vine

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n. large tree root

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n. canarium nut fruit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my fist

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your hair

Speaker: Martial Wahe

earth oven

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[njuri ne nipuka] n. herb growing on roadside along coast road. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3169)

Example: This plant is used by dogs who have an upset stomach. They go to eat this grass and then their stomachs feel better. Pigs feed on this grass.

Scientific name: Eleusine indica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

beginning

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut leaf sheath fibre

Speaker: Martial Wahe

reef passage, channel

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Example: Ornamental plant.

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

n. his/her hair

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of fern, can be used to clean kava root

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Marr’s Fusilier, Twinstripe Fusilier

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

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

n. period of the year preceding the yam harvest (October through March)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my blood

Speaker: Martial wahe

Pacific bullethead parrotfish

Example: Photo by John Turnbull, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Chlorurus spilurus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Harry hotlips, blubberlip

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

Scientific name: Plectorhinchus gibbosus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

awareness or preaching

Example: awareness of health or church gospel

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my right hand

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. inalienable banana sprout, sucker

Speaker: Martial Wahe

women’s bark skirt

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of banana

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n honeycomb

Speaker: Martial wahe

solar panel

Speaker: Martial Wahe

exchange relation

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. pathway, footpath

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Jean Eskar

Kawakawa

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

Scientific name: Euthynnus affinis via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

sawfish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of yam, produces a tuber with white flesh and is said to be the original yam from this place on Tanna. It is harder to grow than many yams

Example: There is a story that an evil spirit stole this yam during the time of the ancestors, taking it from this area to the other side of the volcano. Because the spirit took the best part of the yam, leaving the worst part, this one became hard to grow

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4246)

Example: 1. The inner bark is used to prepared a medicine to relieve upset stomachs. First, the inner bark is scratched until a handful is produced. Then the bark is squeezed with water until a small glass is filled. The decoction is consumed to relive upset stomachs. 2. The leaves are used to fashion a poultice to heal sores and boils.

Scientific name: Pipturus argenteus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[təkrowus] n. once-branched tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3139)

Example: Stem used to plant kava (use it like a spade) but even when you have a spade, you should still use this to dig the hole. The leaf is used to make laplap, a food made from taro or yam with coconut and other foods added. Take the leaf and wrap the laplap and then roast the package on the fire or cook the leaf in a pot of water.

Scientific name: Cordyline fruticosa, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of tree (best wood for making bows)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[waɨsaisa] small devil with big penis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Yellowfin goatfish

Example: Photo by John Turnbull, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Mulloidichthys vanicolensis via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe