Nafe (Kwamera)

v 1. lean against; 2. believe in, depend on

Speaker: Martial wahe

v/a be daylight, dawning

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v remember, recall, think about, ponder

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v. peel, cut skins off tubers

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v. to slap

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v. to stick with a knife or spear

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white

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adv., adj. wild, in the bush

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younger brother

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go fart

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I catch a fish

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v I paddle a canoe

(Bislama) mi badel lo kawenu

Speaker: Martial Wahe

fly

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n. rake

Speaker: Jean Eskar

your headache (pain)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Two-spot red snapper, twinspot snapper, red bass

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

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

Malabar blood snapper, saddletail snapper, large-mouthed nannygai

(Bislama) Red Snapa

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

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

n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5073)

Example: To treat scabies, collect 5 whole plants, remove the soil, then boil in a bucket of water for 10-20 min and wash the scabies 2x daily for 2 weeks or until the scabies is dry.

Scientific name: Adiantum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

[karat] carrot

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kasusu] n. type of mushroom

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n kind of shellfish, possibly abalone

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wooden bench

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n. kind of yam

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

command to dogs (sic)

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Giant grouper (deep sea)

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

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

n. large herb, 0.5 to 1 m tall; adlay millet

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Coix lacryma-jobi, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kwanpir] n. liana growing on coconuts and ficus trees, at edge of disturbed agro-forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3087)

Example: The fiber from the stem is used to make a local rope used to tie thatch on the house. Also used to make an armband to put on the Nisei (Euodia hortensis) leaves (Plunkett et al.#3077).

Scientific name: Flagellaria indica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Oriental sweetlips

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

Scientific name: Plectorhinchus vittatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

kind of yam, produces tubers with white flesh. It is fast-growing and produces a large bunch of tubers

Example: Very sweet and sticks to the teeth when eaten

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

[krawasi] n. we (two) are smoking

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n. tree, 2-3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3031)

Example: Ceremonial: Following circumcision, boys will perform a ritual shower using a mixture of this plant and coconut. The leaves of this plant are mixed with the copra of the coconut and squeezed with water over the boys’ heads. Construction: The wood of this tree is used as rafters in house construction.

Scientific name: Melicope, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. understory treelet, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4210)

Scientific name: Psychotria milnei, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Blue sea chub, snubnose chub, topsail drummer

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

Scientific name: Kyphosus cinerascens via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n scorpion fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

backbone

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n. sweet potato

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[kwarwisiwir] n. epiphyte growing in dense forest. Flowers yellow-orange to bright orange. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3047)

Example: Ornamental: Flowers are used to decorate houses.

Scientific name: Dendrobium, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

plant name: kind of weed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n slingshot (Bislama?)

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noun a dried leaf used to ceremonially wrap kava root

Example: see more on Youtube

dove

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Quoy’s parrotfish

Example: Photo by zsispeo, License: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr

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

Rivulated parrotfish, surf parrotfish

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

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

n. kind of breadfruit tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Black jack (deep sea)

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

Scientific name: Caranx lugubris via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of cassava. The man who went to Port-Vila and brought this variety back to Port Resolution was Robert Rwae and it is named for him

Scientific name: Manihot esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

damsel fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

sun

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volcanic glass shards (Pele’s hair)

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mud

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n. clouds

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[napɨk] kind of tree

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n. kind of yam (high prestige)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

knot made of vine and holding together posts of cyclone house

Speaker: Martial Wahe

type of coconut leaf sheath with thick fibres used to strain kava (see nenha)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sparsely branched tree, 15 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3232)

Example: Timber. Birds are known to eat this fruit so people can hunt near the tree. Unspecified medicine.

Scientific name: Myristica fatua, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. plant; giant fern

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Angiopteris evecta, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5146)

Example: Stem used to make bow. Stem for ax handle.

Scientific name: Allophylus cobbe, Speaker: Johnson Noar

[nakatirew] n. shrub, 3-5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3157)

Scientific name: Hibiscus rosasinensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. breadfruit

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5114)

Example: Weave bark fiber to make slings, grass skirt for ladies, hats and baskets. To do this, rett outer bark in sea for 1 week to rot everything but the fiber, take remaining fiber, dry in sun and use as a fiber for weaving.

Scientific name: Hibiscus tilliaceus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

large grass skirt plant

Speaker: Martial 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. small tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3132)

Example: Straight stem used for spear shaft

Scientific name: Tapeinosperma, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n swamp

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

n sunbeam

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5086)

Example: In ancient times during cyclone season when no food could be harvested, collect the stem and take the white flesh out of center, and bake in the ground oven. Young leaves cooked like island cabbage and eaten. 2 petiole put together and used to grate banana and fresh taro for cooking. Can split the trunk in pieces to make flooring for house. Nailed to joists/supports.

Scientific name: Sphaeropteris lunulata, Speaker: Johnson Noar

[nurapap] 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: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. ordinary kava

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your heart

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bush

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n my eyebrows

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spider web

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n. the time after harvest when yam gardens are gradually consumed and replanted

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Humphead wrasse (female)

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

Scientific name: Cheilinus undulatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

bamboo (used to refer to several introduced species)

(Bislama) pampu

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of fish with black color

Scientific name: clown unicorn fish, Speaker: Martial Wahe

thumb

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5026)

Example: Used to wipe yam for good luck when planting. Take leaves and wipe the yam tuber. Once this tuber is planted, it will grow better due to the luck blessing.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. father (my)

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my mother died

(Bislama) mami blo mi det

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n. kind of thorny beach vine with purple flowers

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fork (as in a tree)

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coconut scoop

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I fight you, you gonna shit

(Bislama) by mi faetem you by yu sisit.

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n my lung

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planting hole (for banana, taro)

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father

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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5098)

Example: Leaves used to cover laplap and wrap and boil in pot. Kids use papaya petiole to shoot seeds -- game of hide and seen called chung.

Scientific name: Canna indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. large herb, growing at edge of garden. bracts red. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3071)

Example: People use this to cover or wrap banana and cassava prior to cooking in a boiling pot; when the food is cooked the leaf is discarded. Flowers used for decoration. This is an imported cultivated plant.

Scientific name: Heliconia indica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of taro

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kind of seashell

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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5023)

Example: The wood can be used to make poled for cattle fences. Fruits are sweet and edible. They are also very juicy, and can satisfy thirst. Take bark off of the tree and scrape the green inner bark of tree off. Cover a boil with these pieces to reduce the size and help it heal. Apply once a day for three days.

Scientific name: Pipturus argenteus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. understory tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4208)

Scientific name: Schefflera neoebudica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n tidal pool, salt evaporation pool

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garden bed

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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: Emmanuel Maasi

n dwarf, midget

Speaker: Martial wahe

Bluespine unicornfish

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