Nafe (Kwamera)

v intr call fowls, cluck

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. sweep, clear away garden debris

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v snack on, eat (coconut wrapped in fig leaves, for example)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr var. of akwɨpahar

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v var. of -skwini

Speaker: Wahe Martial

shine flying fox

Speaker: Martial wahe

ice

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. to strip off leaves, for example coconut leaves from a frond

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v go sleep

(Bislama) go silip

Speaker: Martial Wahe

type of sea urchin

Speaker: Martial Wahe

lady finger bananas

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

sandpiper

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. marigold

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of coconut with large ’eyes’

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

mullet (fish)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cephalopods

Speaker: Martial Wahe

phrase where you going?

(Bislama) you go wea

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. traditional broom

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. a type of fungus that grows on trees, can be fried and eaten

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Humpback red snapper, paddletail

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

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

n testicle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

stone wall

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cylindrical throwing club, throwing stick

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Broadbilled Flycatcher

Scientific name: Myiagra caledonica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5101)

Example: To treat ciguatera disease (fish toxin), boil a double handful of the male flower, in 2 liter water, 10-15 min. Drink all at once warm. Drink one pot daily for 2 days. Leaves and flowers to feed pigs. Fruit edible. Slice the green fruit and boil it to make soup or fry it in oil and make a salad. Ripe fruit to make jam.

Scientific name: Carica papaya, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

kind of breadfruit, medium-sized

Example: Cooked on a low fire as it has very soft flesh. Good tasting variety

Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

how many? how much?

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Moorish idol fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. flying fox flying

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my anus

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. copra

(Bislama) kopra

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. subshrub, 75 cm tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3236)

Example: This plant is used as a source of fiber to make grass skirts. Gather a lot of stems, place in seawater with a stone on top (the process known as retting) for one month. Collect the stems, pull off the bark and remove the fiber, allowing it to dry in the sun until it bleaches white, when it can be woven into the traditional grass skirt.

Scientific name: Urena lobata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub (1 to 1,5 m) (collection: Laurence Ramon #322)

Scientific name: Hanslia ormocarpoides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5165)

Scientific name: Sterculia banksiana, Speaker: Martial Wahe

discourse particle hesitation discourse particle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. epiphyte growing on neonauclea forsteri trunk, about 2-3 m above ground (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2977)

Example: Ornamental: The tiny seeds, appearing as a powder, are used to decorate one’s face during kastom ceremonies. The plant is used when the fruit is yellow.

Scientific name: Dendrobium, Speaker: Martial Wahe

grass skirt plant, sea soaked

Speaker: Martial Wahe

backbone

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. wild cane stalk used in the construction of trellises

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. swing, rope swing

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. leaf

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n waning crescent (moon phase)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. manioc (var. of manto)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Foxface

Example: Photo by Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Siganus vulpinus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

penis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5133)

Example: Stem for house building. Young leaves are very strong and used as plates during large kastom ceremonies. Sap can be used to cover sores from flies in order to protect it. Stem good for firewood as does not give much smoke--does not bother eyes as much as other wood.

Scientific name: Macaranga tanarius, Speaker: Johnson Noar

coconut development stage 4

Example: falls down, rats eat it, used to feed pigs and chickens

Speaker: Martial 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

[naŋe] n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3141)

Example: Fruits have edible seeds. To prepare, sun dry the fruits, break kernal and roast or boil the nut inside. Is a common food plant. The wood makes good timber. The latex can be collected, put in a tin and then heated over a fire. It turns black and can be used as black paint. It also smells nice when heated.

Scientific name: Canarium, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of tree

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. tree, 6-8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3262)

Example: Feed pigs with the bark of this tree, and mix it with pig food as well. When eaten, this bark will help make the pig grow fat. When the fruits are ripe, they get sticky and this can be used to trap birds. Put these fruits around a cut up papaya, and put that in a clear place--when the birds come to eat the papaya they get stuck by the fruits and can be caught.

Scientific name: Pisonia umbellifera, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. terrestrial; leaves up to ca. 2 m long. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2611)

Example: 1. When making a ground oven (nimum), these leaves are heaped on the stones, before the oven is buried with dirt.

Scientific name: Pneumatopteris glandulifera (Brack.) Holtt., Speaker: Martial Wahe

brain coral

Speaker: Martial Wahe

animal

Speaker: Martial Wahe

landslide

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Indian coral tree

Scientific name: Erythrina corallodendron, Speaker: Jean Pascal 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

[nəfkafa:i] n. liana growing on trunk of hedycarya dorstenioides, in dense forest along ridge. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3009)

Example: Animal Feed: The green leaves of this plant are used to feed pigs. Hunting: The inner part of the long dry rhizome is woven to create a pidgeon trap.

Scientific name: Epipremnum pinnatum, 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: Martial 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

bamboo rear wall of traditional (cyclone) house

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. small plant with variegated leaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. a kind of sugarcane, small

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[hipi:na] n. well branched tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3149)

Example: When young boys are circumcized, the leaf is mashed and rubbed on the skin of the boys who are sleeping in the nakamal--and mix with coconut oil to help hold it on the body. Said to help the person have better, smoother skin.

Scientific name: Murraya, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. shrub, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3160)

Example: When a person is growing watermelons, you put a knife in the roots of the watermelon plants, and then cut a stick from this tree and drive it into the roots as well, to ensure greater numbers of watermelons will be grown.

Scientific name: Vitex trifolia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

steps cut into earth

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. epiphyte on main trunks of canopy-sized trees, growing in dense forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3120)

Scientific name: Vittaria elongata, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. epiphyte on trunk of ficus tree, growing in dense forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3128)

Example: Unspecified secret medicine

Scientific name: Belvisia revoluta, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

his hair

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Nuwekur village, near Iatukwei

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of kava with crinkled leaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

big fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

please, sorry

Speaker: Martial Wahe

t.o Gossamer-winged Butterfly

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

Scientific name: Luthrodes cleotas 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

Blue and gold fusilier, scissortail fusilier (deep sea)

Example: Photo by Dennis Polack / Fishwise Professional, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Caesio caerulaurea via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

alien (from another island, country)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree with small, compound leaves, used for firewood

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n low tide

Speaker: Martial wahe

[ʰrawɨs] grass skirt

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[rɨŋkew] n. understory tree growing in area of Ianarawia ("high hill") settlement (village of Philip Wahe). (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3154)

Example: This tree is poisonous to goats, cattle-if they eat it they will die. The wood is used to make rafters for houses as well as burned as firewood.

Scientific name: Trema cannabina, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

straight

Speaker: Martial Wahe

wind direction from the west

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Giant Moray

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

Scientific name: Gymnothorax javanicus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

flower

Speaker: Martial Wahe

belt made of tapa, traditionally used to hold up men’s penis wrappers

Speaker: Martial Wahe

rope

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bat, flying mammal

Speaker: Martial Wahe

small bat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n Short-tailed Shearwater or Slender-billed Shearwater, a.k.a. mutton bird

Scientific name: Puffinus tenuirostris, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable 1. classifier word for supporting aerial roots (as of a banyan, pandanus), 2. thorn

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of skink

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Bulbnose unicornfish, humpnose unicornfish (deep sea)

Example: Photo by Jean-Lou Justine / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

kind of centipede

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I am sick

(Bislama) mi sik

Speaker: Martial Wahe

goatfish, small and red

Speaker: Martial Wahe

goatfish; this example is possibly a Cinnabar goatfish

Scientific name: Parupeneus heptacanthus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe