Nafe (Kwamera)

v. wear an ornament of leaves inserted into carved or woven armlets

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v intr suckle, nurse

Speaker: Martial wahe

v nod (as one’s head)

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr live, stay at, exist at

Speaker: Martial wahe

v divide, separate, cut in half, come between (as two fighting men)

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v roll (as a cigarette), roll up (as a mat)

Speaker: Martial wahe

kill pig

Speaker: Martial wahe

don’t cry

(Bislama) no cry

Speaker: Martial Wahe

calendar

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n harbor, port

Speaker: Martial wahe

v go sleep

(Bislama) go silip

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. marigold

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

name of language spoken in South-west Tanna

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I drink water

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I catch a fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5159)

Example: To attract fish in the sea. Take the branches and mix with mashed coconut endosperm, put (throw) in sea and then use line and hook to catch reef fish there.

Scientific name: Phyllanthus, Speaker: Johnson Noar

chief

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. love

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

general term for fungus

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. terrestrial; uncommon. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2610)

Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

kind of insect (large, sucks nectar)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of spider

Speaker: Martial Wahe

num four

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. flying fox flying

Speaker: Martial Wahe

grouper (deep sea)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Whitespotted grouper (deep sea)

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

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

Blubberlip snapper

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

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

num five

Speaker: Martial Wahe

beginning

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of yam, has a round root, with white, soft, sweet flesh

Example: Only used for making lap-lap

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

coconut fruit bud

Speaker: Martial Wahe

baby food

Speaker: Martial 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

bladder

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Pacific Dtella

Example: via inaturalist.org

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

beetle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. kind of tree, 2. ladder made from a tree branch

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[the spelling "mahk" was transcribed by Goerg Forster on Capitain Cook’s 1774 visit t] Tanna ground dove (extinct species)

n marketplace, market

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

kind of mango, can be eaten when the skin is green

Scientific name: Mangifera indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Shoulderbar soldierfish

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

Scientific name: Myripristis kuntee via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

squirrel fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. mulberry

(Bislama) marmeri

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of skink

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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: Johnson Noar

n. kind of tree

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5084)

Example: Planted for shade near a village or near houses. Shade tree.

Scientific name: Acacia simplex, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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

my eyes

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 my eye

Speaker: Martial wahe

[napwejsen] n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3140)

Example: The wood from this tree makes strong house posts as well as timber for benches and can be used as firewood. If you don’t have soap, you can take the leaf, mash it up and wash with it--it produces a foam that cleans. Use for washing yourself, for example. If this tree has fruits, then people know that it is a good time to plant sweet potatoes and other crops.

Scientific name: Alphitonia zizyphoides, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. tree with green sweet-smelling flowers

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Pisonia grandis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

a “female” coconut that only has one fruit on the panicle of the inflorescence

Example: This variety is used for the kastom marriage ceremony, grated with Euodia hortensis and Alpinia purpurata and rubbed on the bride and groom. The significance of this kastom is to ensure that the two people will be truthful to their chief, their parents and their spouse

Scientific name: Cocos nucifera, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. kind of tree, used in canoe construction

Speaker: Jean Pascal 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

wild animal

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[natuwan] n. large tree, 10-14 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3124)

Example: The wood of this plant smells bad. It is locally called a type of "stink wood." When young children get circumsized in kastom ways, to change the leaves for their bandage, take off the bark of this stem, take the inside part and scrape it--mix a handful of the scrapings with grated coconut, put it together in a leaf, put it on the fire, heat it, when the coconut is browned, squeeze it together to get the "milk" that is yellow in color. When young children swim in saltwater to dry the cut from the circumcision, squeeze this on that area to help heal it.

Scientific name: Dysoxylum amooroides, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5060)

Example: Kastom medicine to ascertain the type of sickness a person has. Take two small 6 in. long branches with leaves, and place this on the person along with another unspecified plant. Will help diagnosis.

Scientific name: Breynia disticha, Speaker: Johnson Noar

daylight, sunshine

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. well branched tree, 3-4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3037)

Example: Hunting: Flying foxes are known to eat the fruit of this tree. When the bats are desired, hunters will gather near this tree. Ceremonial: During kava preparation, chewed kava roots are placed on the green leaves of this plant before extracting. Many leaves are used for this purpose. Fuel: To make a fire, dried sticks are rubbed together on a plane of wood. The friction creates smoldering ash over time, useful for ingniting dried material.

Scientific name: Ficus septica, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

big food festival

(Bislama) bigfala kakae

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree to 6 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Morinda citrifoli, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[makeihimap] n. small, sparsely branched shrub (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3033)

Example: Ceremonial: During kava preparation, chewed kava roots are placed on the green leaves of this plant before extracting. One of many leaves used for this purpose.

Scientific name: Macropiper latifolium, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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

n. fern tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[niŋ] n. large grass, growing in disturbed forest/garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3104)

Example: When thatching a house, put the coconut leaves on the crossbars, and then push the stem of this plant into the coconut leaves and bend them over to hold the coconut leaves. Use the stems of this plant as a support for yam vines. Use the stem to make arrows.

Scientific name: Miscanthus sinensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. plant (to be identified)

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Sterculia banksiana, Speaker: Martial Wahe

mountain beetwen imaki and high hill

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nukunene] n. tree stump

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my fist

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. terrestrial; leaves 1.0-1.5 m long. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2626)

Scientific name: Hypolepis elegans, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. very well branched tree, 6-8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3054)

Example: When this tree grows with straight stems it is used for house posts

Scientific name: Weinmannia denhami, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. circumcision

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree, used in traditional medicine

Speaker: Martial Wahe

alcoholic drink

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. his/her hair

Speaker: Martial Wahe

name of a traditional road linking villages in South-East Tanna

Speaker: Martial Wahe

eclipse (lunar?)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Pacific yellowtail emperor

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

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

n. house post outside (

(Bislama) pos

Speaker: Jean Eskar

my elder sisiter’s daughter

Speaker: Wahe Martial

kind of fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. mother, mama

Speaker: Martial Wahe

candy

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[Mountain beetwen imaki and yanarpon]

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. kind of yam

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I fight you, you gonna shit

(Bislama) by mi faetem you by yu sisit.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

braided coconut husk rope

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 island

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n house component: side wall of house made of wild cane and bamboo

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n tidal pool, salt evaporation pool

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of fish

Speaker: 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

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