Nafe (Kwamera)

v hold to, hang on, grasp, hook, put one’s arms around

Speaker: Martial wahe

v push down, poke down

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr yawn

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr suckle, nurse

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. roll, push; 2. rattle (as a can full of small rocks)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. to ask

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. 1. dig (as with a spade), 2. sprout

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v buy, pay a salary, pay someone for something

Speaker: Martial wahe

feast

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v fill, stuff (as tobacco into a pipe), insert (as food into a bamboo section to bake)

Speaker: Martial wahe

phrase can you look up

(Bislama) look antap

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. house vertical support posts

Speaker: Martial Wahe

younger brother

Speaker: Martial Wahe

dig the soil

Speaker: Martial wahe

Vanuatu

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I am happy

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I don’t like rain

(Bislama) mi no likem rain

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I eat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. lichen

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. 1. sand fly, 2. sand crab

Speaker: Martial Wahe

boy children

Speaker: Martial Wahe

squid

Speaker: Martial Wahe

old grandparents

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of stick bug

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. small taro roots, 2. garden (metaphorically)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of water plant

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. epiphytic orchid on tree, growing in dense cloud forest. flowers white. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4219)

Example: The yellow seeds are used are used to paint faces. The use is currently practiced by children and thought to be an archaic use.

Scientific name: Dendrobium, Speaker: Martial Wahe

footbridge made of wood and bamboo

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of basket woven with young coconut leaves.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

traditional spoon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of shell, with smooth black color

Example: edible shell, boiled in the saucepan or roasted in the fire

Speaker: Martial Wahe

num nine

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

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

my younger brother’s son (my nephew)

Speaker: Wahe Martial

n. rope, vine, genealogical line

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. inalienable the remnant of the planted taro form which a new tuber has developed (at the base of the harvested root)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable root

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n barnacle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n baking stones in earth oven

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Striated Surgeonfish, Lined Bristletooth, small silver scaled fish

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

Scientific name: Ctenochaetus striatus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[ganhɨm] your penis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of mango, the fruit of this variety is round and has a very nice smell

Scientific name: Mangifera indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n my ear

Speaker: Martial wahe

[nakua tanna] riverbed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of banana

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of tree (bark used as rope)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of coconut with red shell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. his or her coconut

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. stage 1 in the development of coconuts, very small, not ready to eat or for any other use

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5128)

Example: Medicine for gonnorhea. Collect two plants and clean their roots, boil whole in 2 liters water, boil 20-40 minutes, drink the mixture hot, 2 cups a day, 3 weeks. This condition presents as a burning in the penis, along with other issues. For heavy cough, take double handful leaf, boil 10-15 minutes in 1 liter water, 2 cups day warm, for 5 days. Pods used to calm children by shaking as rattle, when they are crying.

Scientific name: Cassia, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. sugarcane

Speaker: Martial Wahe

breast

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. well branched tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3125)

Example: Children from Tanna and throughout Vanuatu use this plant to make a slingshot. As a "medicine," when chickens are ruining your garden, if you plant this plant it will chase away the chickens.

Scientific name: Ervatamia orientalis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n my nerves

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 #5088)

Example: Leaf used to thatch house. Chew base of stem as sugar cane - it’s sweet.

Scientific name: Miscanthus sinensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5106)

Example: If someone has swollen legs or arms, like from bruises or boils, crush leaves and rub on the swollen area twice a day for 1 week, or until sores disappear. For anemia, take a double handful of leaves, squeeze into 1 L water, and drink one bottle three day for 2 weeks.

Scientific name: Plectranthus scutellarioides, 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. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3248)

Example: When people chew the kava root for processing, they spit it on this leaf. It is sort of a magic leaf for picking up a person--put 4 leaves together, 2 per side and then lift the person up.

Scientific name: Macropiper latifolium, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5127)

Example: Medicinal use. For back pain, take double handful of leaf, mash it in 1/2 liter of water, squeeze into cup. Drink 2 cups / day, morning and afternoon for 5 days.

Scientific name: Nephrolepis biserrata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. hibiscus tree (Hibiscus tiliaceus)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

excrement

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bamboo rear wall of traditional (cyclone) house

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. royal palm tree

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. round house

Speaker: Jean Eskar

Mountain beetwen yatukwei and High hill

Speaker: Martial wahe

coconut shell for drinking

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: Johnson Noar

n. tree, growing in disturbed forest/garden area.

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Barringtonia asiatica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nuas] island cabbage

Speaker: Martial Wahe

creek

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. charcoal

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my pupil (of eye)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n my big toe

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. inalienable friut stem (as of an orange, mango, pumpkin, etc.)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

name of a star constellation

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n moonbeam

Speaker: Martial wahe

axe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial wahe

kind of coconut which is long and narrow

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

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: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

his brother

Speaker: Martial Wahe

daughter

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my right hand

Speaker: Martial wahe

n sound

Speaker: Martial wahe

Orbicular batfish

Example: Photo by Elias Levy / Flickr, License: CC BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Platax orbicularis via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

planting hole (for banana, taro)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Blackfin squirrelfish

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

Scientific name: Neoniphon opercularis via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of tree

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Homalanthus nutans, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. large, well branched tree (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4236)

Example: 1. Pidgeons ear the fruits. 2. The wood, being pliable, is used to fashion the limbs of hunting bows. 3. The bole is used as posts in western style houses.

Scientific name: Dysoxylum aneityense, Speaker: Martial Wahe

cockroach

Speaker: Martial Wahe

wheelbarrow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

African pompano (female)

Example: Photo by Bernie Dupont, License: CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Alectis ciliaris via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Common ponyfish (female)

Example: Photo by John E. Randall / FishBase EOL, License: CC BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Leiognathus equulus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial wahe

goatfish, small and red

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Twosaddle goatfish

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

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