Nafe (Kwamera)

adj. cooked, done, ready to be eaten, ripe (can be used in the imperative, for example speaking to food, "be ready!"

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v/a 1. glad, happy; 2. hug, hold (onto a person)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v carry piggyback

Speaker: Martial wahe

v gossip, tell on, betray, tell tales behind one’s back, inform about

Speaker: Martial wahe

v complement, praise

Speaker: Martial wahe

v gum (as one’s food)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr stay behind, remain, lie down

Speaker: Martial wahe

v sleep, close (as one’s eyes, or the leaves of a plant at night), blink

Speaker: Martial wahe

v spread, spread out

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. sprout (as kava, banana, sugarcane)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v 1. spear, stick, pierce, throw (an elongated object); 2. put down, insert, stick something into the ground, plant (as a tree), join; 3. clap, applaud, pat, ringbark (as to kill a tree); 4. be proud, sassy, disrespectful, preen (because of praise)

Speaker: Wahe Martial

don’t climb

Speaker: Martial wahe

seawards

Speaker: Martial Wahe

buoy used to float fishing nets (Bislama?)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

dig the soil

Speaker: Martial wahe

I pick the fruit tree of all the fruit

(Bislama) mi pikimap fuit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of turtle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[ianarɨm] Aneityum Island

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. crab

Speaker: Jean Eskar

octopus

Speaker: Martial Wahe

adj late

Speaker: Martial wahe

tabu place, taboo place

Speaker: Martial Wahe

boy

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of basket made of coconut leaves

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of crabe

Speaker: Martial wahe

kind of shellfish

Scientific name: Littorinidae sp., 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

a children’s game

Speaker: Martial Wahe

jaw, door frame, gate

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. flying fox flying

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5136)

Example: To tie the wall of a house, strip off leaves and tie fresh to house.

Scientific name: Flagellaria indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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

type of laplap

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of banana

Speaker: Martial Wahe

beginning

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n morning star (see kofetatea)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: 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

n. kind of tree; its loss of leaves signifies the beginning of the cool season

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. species of orchid

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Dendrobium mohlianum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

club, with rounded head

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n baking stones in earth oven

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

Common dolphinfish, mahi mahi

(Bislama) Mahi Mahi

Example: Photo by Alex Kerstitch / Shorefishes of the Eastern Tropical Pacific, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Coryphaena hippurus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Green winged ground pigeon

Scientific name: Chalcophaps indica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Common parrotfish, palenose parrotfish

Example: Photo by Andy A. Lewis / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

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

Scientific name: Mangifera indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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

Ghost Ant

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

Scientific name: Tapinoma melanocephalum via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

Shadowfin soldierfish

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

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

kind of pandanus

Example: The green leaves are used to weave mats, baskets and hats. The stem is used for making houseposts and also burned as firewood. The ripe fruits are cut open and the seeds are removed and eaten—they taste like coconut and are eaten fresh

Scientific name: Pandanus tectorius, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. almond, Canarium indicum

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Rough triggerfish, spotted oceanic triggerfish, oceanic triggerfish

Example: Photo by Ross Robertson / Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific online information system, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Canthidermis maculata via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

type of ceremony

Speaker: Martial Wahe

older brother

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. his or her coconut

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5097)

Example: This tree is planted to mark the area of a Nakamal. Young roots used as bowstring..

Scientific name: Ficus prolixa, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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: Johnson Noar

n my tongue

Speaker: Martial wahe

kind of plantain, a medium sized plantain, is ca. 6” long with green and yellow color on peel

Example: Eaten ripe

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

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: Emmanuel Maasi

coconut leaf sheath

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub, 4-6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3090)

Example: This plant is known as "fishbone leaf" as the edge of the leaf tears away and the remaining part is serrated. It is a powerful medicine that is secret.

Scientific name: Leea indica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5122)

Example: Peel stem and chop pieces of stem and pieces of stem of Pipturus argenteus (MB 5121), add fresh water, squeeze in hair, rub head in one direction, do this for one month then hair will turn blond color (for Toka dance) and will also help dreadlocks.

Scientific name: Nothocnide repanda, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. Croton sp.

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. treelet, 1.5 to 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4243)

Example: 1. Known as the spirit of kava, the inner stem of young leaves can be eaten as bush fodder.

Scientific name: Macropiper latifolium, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. small tree, 2.5-3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3076)

Example: If a person has a sore body or headache, someone else chews the leaf of this plant and spits the chewed leaf on the specific part of the person where the pain is found. The herb should stick to that part of the body and be applied 1x in the morninig and 1x in the afternoon, leaving the plant on the person as long as it stays.

Scientific name: Breynia disticha, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5061)

Example: Use stem to build roof rafters. Before people had matches, this plant was used to light fires by rubbing one stem of this against another piece of the same tree.

Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my nose

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. oleander

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. canoe oar, paddle

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n. kind of vine

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4213)

Example: 1. Ripe fruits are used by children in a game to imitate the devil. 2. It is considered tapu to make firewood from this tree. It tis thought the yam stems will dry and the fruits will be sub-par as a result.

Scientific name: Melastoma malabathricum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut development stage 7; sprouting coconut.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. ordinary kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of kava with variegated leaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Two day kava (one stays intoxicated for two days)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

your heart

Speaker: Martial Wahe

air

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. coals

Speaker: Martial Wahe

season of the year when yams are growing, before yam harvest (Oct. through March)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial wahe

Singapore parrotfish, greenthroat parrotfish

Example: Photo by Rick Stuart-Smith / Reef Life Survey, License: CC BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

n my baby teeth (deciduous teeth)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n my canine tooth

Speaker: Martial wahe

daylight

(Bislama) delaet

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my vocal chords

Speaker: Martial wahe

n my nostril

Speaker: Martial wahe

second (unit of time)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. platform for sitting under

Speaker: Martial Wahe

tabu, taboo

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

type of traditional dance

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[waɨsaisa] small devil with big penis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

window in traditional house (Bislama)

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

Gold-saddle goatfish

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

Scientific name: Parupeneus cyclostomus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & 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