Nafe (Kwamera)

v 1. point; 2. teach, instruct

Speaker: Martial wahe

v avoid, draw back, shrink from

Speaker: Martial wahe

n camp

Speaker: Martial Wahe

adj. big, large

Speaker: Martial Wahe

can you squeeze me or massage me

(Bislama) tra skwisim mi.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of shell. Possibly genus Vasum.

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

morning star

Speaker: Martial Wahe

phrase I ask you

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial wahe

[karwasi] devil that has sex with pigs

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n house component (vertical poles supporting thatching)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

n. kind of breadfruit

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Moorish idol fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. corn

(Bislama) kon

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Brownspotted grouper (deep sea)

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

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

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5036)

Example: Young plants for roof rafters, larger plants used for house posts. Women who get pregnant with someone else besides husband use this to abort. Boil a double handful of scraped stem in water and drink 1 cup four times daily to abort. Fruits are edible. Cut it open and eat what’s inside.

Scientific name: Finschia chloroxantha, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Coral hind, coral grouper (deep sea)

Example: Photo by Jan Messersmith, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Cephalopholis miniata via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. canarium nut fruit (variant 2)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Red-breasted Pygmy Parrot

Scientific name: Micropsitta bruijnii rosea, Speaker: Martial Wahe

name of a star constellation

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n snapper fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

last born child

Speaker: Martial Wahe

egg

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. interior house radial long post

Speaker: Jean Eskar

[kwana:tɨs] n. herb to 75 cm tall, flowers purple (collection: Michael J. Balick #4731)

Example: The stems of this plant are bound together to make a local broom.

Scientific name: Stachytarpheta, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[kwani̤ni̤] n. herb to 1 m, flowers yellow (collection: Michael J. Balick #4730)

Example: The entire plant is pulled up, the stems bound together and used to make a local broom.

Scientific name: Sida, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5085)

Example: Sawn timber. Open ripe seed with stone or hammer, eat nut inside.

Scientific name: Terminalia catappa, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n.

Speaker: Johnson Noar

spear becket

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. central spine of a coconut frond

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

coconut leaf spine

Speaker: Martial Wahe

lung fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Robin

Scientific name: Petroica multicolor, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Pacific Dtella

Example: via inaturalist.org

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

[ganhɨm] your penis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. baked vegetable food eaten along with meat, food baked in an earth oven (other than tuber puddings)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Dusky parrotfish, swarthy parrotfish

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

Scientific name: Scarus niger via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Highfin parrotfish

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

Scientific name: Scarus longipinnis via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

damsel fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[mataga] wind

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Streamlined spinefoot, forktail rabbitfish (salt water)

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

Scientific name: Siganus argenteus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & 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

Speaker: Martial wahe

kind of insect, wood boring

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nakwas naniki:ri] n. rope with round green fruits. (collection: Laurence Ramon #326)

Scientific name: Salacia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n flint stone (for making fire)

Speaker: Martial wahe

type of ceremony

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Longfin emperor

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

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

n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5155)

Example: Young leaves are edible. Cook with meat and vegetables or boil leaves and mix with coconut milk.

Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. tree with green sweet-smelling flowers

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Pisonia grandis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. herbs, 1.5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3229)

Example: When performing the kastom ceremony "toka dance" the leaves are wrapped in a band and tied on the head of dancers.

Scientific name: Alpinia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. tree, small; Vanuatu Wild Fig

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Ficus granatum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5074)

Example: Used for food. Boil the leaves for 15-20 min, fry them, or put them in the earth oven to eat. They taste very good.

Scientific name: Microsorum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

tribe name

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[naturena] n. epiphyte growing in dense forest, along ridge. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3023)

Example: Ornamental: After one week of being sun-dried, men will place this plant in their arm band (“Tikinapuai”) during katom ceremonies.

Scientific name: Huperzia phlegmaria, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

thunder

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree to 6 m tall, dbh 40 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4740)

Example: Fruit used for local medicine. When a person is diagnosed with "cancer" in the local hospital, take a ripe fruit in a cup of water and macerate it until the smell of the fruit comes out in the water, drink every other day, 3x daily, morning noon and night. Also used for firewood.

Scientific name: Morinda citrifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5162)

Example: Fruits are edible, ripe, break open with hammer and eat seeds fresh. Stems for house posts. Stems for carving.

Scientific name: Cordia subcordata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5030)

Example: Fruits cooked and eaten. Young leaves can be fried or boiled and eaten as a vegetable, like a mix with vegetable and meat and cooked in earth oven. Stem to make canoe, very long lasting wood 5-12 years, very tight wood. Older stems good for house posts.

Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. coconut fibrous leaf sheath (used to strain kava)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5042)

Example: Leaf used to feed pigs--when looking for dried coconuts, gather this. The seeds are edible put them directly on fire and cook for 3-5 minutes.

Scientific name: Canavalia rosea, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. tree to 6 m tall, dbh 30 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4726)

Example: Green fruits are edible. To eat the leaves, cook them in boiling water for 5-10 minutes, eat with coconut milk. The younger leaves should be the ones harvested for eating. The leaves can also be used to bake a pig in an earth oven, wrap the leaves around the pig. The wood is good for firewood and a person can start the dried wood with no match. The leaves of this plant can be eaten with another, unspecified leaf to stop vomiting. When the fruits are ripe the flying fox and birds like to eat these fruits.

Scientific name: Ficus, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

tribe name

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5083)

Example: Wood is hard, making it good for canoe making. Also used to make the stick that holds outrigger to canoe (Nikiavet).

Scientific name: Vitex trifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

[nukunene] n. tree stump

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5033)

Example: Young leaves edible, boil with water or cook in coconut milk. Cook fruit in boiling water, then cook in coconut milk. Cook fruits for 6-10 minutes. He was taught this by his grandparents who showed him how to eat wild plants; his grandfather wasa historically significant person in the Port Resolution area, especially in reference to medicine.

Scientific name: Ficus wassa, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. decorative plant (Crinum sp.), Bislama: white lily. A kind of wild taro, eaten.

(Bislama) nuviavia

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. white kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. two day’ kava (i.e., one stays intoxicated for two days) (English "two days")

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. mistletoe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. leaf, foliage 2. sheet, leaf (of paper)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of sugarcane, small with brown color, very sweet

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Tahitian chestnut

Speaker: Martial Wahe

word, speech, talking

Speaker: Martial Wahe

wind direction: west-northwest wind

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my body

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. ginger, used in cooking and in tea, used medicinally in tea to clear lungs and throat phlegm

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of watermelon, round, small, very sweet with small seeds (from E. Auckland)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Blue-Barred Parrotfish

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

Scientific name: Scarus ghobban via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Longspine emperor

Example: Photo by Museum of New Zealand / Te Papa Tongarewa, License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Lethrinus genivittatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

kind of fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[pukar] n. pig

Speaker: Martial Wahe

mum, mother

Speaker: Martial Wahe

daylight

(Bislama) delaet

Speaker: Martial Wahe

afternoon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

eel, morray (general)

Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

coconut lorikeet

Speaker: Martial Wahe

call someone; laughter

(Bislama) singaot

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n youth, circumcised boy up to the age of marriage (i.e., approx. 5 to 18 years of age)

Speaker: Lindstrom 1986

bamboo slit gong used to signal approach by woman to nakamal

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

sea snake black and white

n my sole (of foot)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n nautilus shell. Possibly family Nautilidae

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Small toothed jobfish

Example: Photo by @perigor2000 / www.whatsthatfish.com/fish, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Aphareus furca via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

cockroach

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Bluespine unicornfish

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

Orangespine unicornfish

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

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

Doublebar goatfish

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

Scientific name: Parupeneus crassilabris via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe