Nafe (Kwamera)

v intr urinate

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v 1. stir (as with a spoon), crank; 2. swing one’s arms (as in a nupu dance)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. construct, build (a house, table, canoe), repair; 2. specialise, make well, have knowledge of, be wise in

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v intr var. of akwɨpahar

Speaker: Wahe Martial

ice

Speaker: Martial wahe

n camp

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5079)

Example: Fruits eaten when they turn yellow and are ripe.

Scientific name: Psidium guajava, Speaker: Johnson Noar

kind of crab

Speaker: Martial Wahe

absent minded

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[jare̤mə̤] n. herb, growing along open garden path. Flowers yellow. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3084)

Example: This plant is used to treat diarrhea in a baby 1-6 months old. The mother takes 4, 1" pieces and chews them, spitting it into the baby’s mouth 2x daily, once in the morning and once in the afternoon until the diarrhea stops. Sometimes if the baby is sick from a spirit such as a yam, taro or sea spirit, the mother takes 2, 1" pieces of stem and 2, 1" pieces of Acalypha wilkesiana petiole (Plunkett et.al. #3081) and chews the two species together and spits on the affected baby, telling the spirit to "go away and leave the baby alone.

Scientific name: Bidens pilosa, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. English

Speaker: Martial Wahe

friend

Speaker: Martial Wahe

num three

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n clear sky

Speaker: Martial Wahe

longtail silver-biddy

Example: Photo by Rainer Kretzberg, License: CC BY 3.0

Scientific name: Gerres longirostris via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

footbridge made of wood and bamboo

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

n beche-de-mer, sea slug

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Moorish idol fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n morning star

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. corn

(Bislama) kon

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5153)

Example: To make tattoo, draw design and then take youngest emerging stem and rub along design. Follow design and it will burn a design in your skin. Birds eat fruits as do fruit bats.

Scientific name: Alchornea scandens, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Netfin grouper (deep sea)

Example: Photo by Molly Varghese / Fishbase, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

Orange-spotted grouper (deep sea)

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

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

n. lemon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of breadfruit, produces a long breadfruit that tastes very good

Example: The stem of the tree is good for making a canoe

Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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

dog

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n vent in Yasur crater

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

[kwanəraj] n. tree, 6-7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3101)

Example: People use this plant as a medicine to treat bad knees. Peel the bark, take 1 handful and put it in a cup of water until the water becomes black. Drink it 3x daily as needed until the knee pain disappears and the knee heals. Children use the seeds as a glue in school work.

Scientific name: Cordia dichotoma, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5115)

Example: Hardwood, for carving. For building house posts. If wood is dry when it is wet outside, this wood will light and burn faster than any other wood (due to high sap content).

Scientific name: Guettarda speciosa, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. wild cane stalk used in the construction of trellises

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of yam, produces a tuber with reddish flesh. The tuber can be up to 2 meters long and very hard inside, taking a long time to boil. It is easy to grow

Example: During boiling, the water is said to turn red in color and then changes to whatever the color is of what it is being cooked with

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. nutmeg

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

spear becket

Speaker: Martial Wahe

a stage of coconut development

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bladder

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cyclone house

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. orange (fruit)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

mantis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. leaf

Speaker: Jean Eskar

brown pigeon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Ember parrotfish, redlip parrotfish

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

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

listening

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Bluefin trevally (male) (reef fish)

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

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

Sabre squirrelfish

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

Scientific name: Sargocentron spiniferum via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Elongate surgeonfish (sea)

Example: Photo by Paddy Ryan / www.ryanphotographic.com, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Acanthurus mata 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 canoe-shaped kava bowl

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Titan triggerfish

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

Scientific name: Balistoides viridescens via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. plant (to be identified)

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Salacia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

sleep, sleepiness

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree, used in canoe construction

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. puffball

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of yam (high prestige)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

knot made of vine and holding together posts of cyclone house

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5144)

Example: Sawn timber. Very hard wood. Fruit bats enjoy eating from this tree. Hunters know this and will go there to hunt.

Scientific name: Syzygium nomoa, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5091)

Example: When the fruit is ripe, it is put in a pot with water. Fill half of a large bag (2 liters) with fruit, add this to 2 liters of water and macerate the fruit in the water. Drink 2 cups/day of this extract, morning and afternoon, for one week to make skin oily when it is too dry. This is necessary, for example, when a person drinks too much kava and thir skin dries out. Eat young fruits as a protection from someone who wants to do you harm. It is said that the fruit has 10 eyes, and can watch after you. Cover fish with leaves to cook in a fire. Crush and boil pieces of the stem and leaves and

Scientific name: Morinda citrifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. sparsely branched shrub, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3081)

Example: The leaves of this plant are warmed over a fire and put warm on the legs of a person who is cold or has a headache, such as from a fever that comes with the flu. See 3076 for additional comments on this technique.

Scientific name: Acalypha wilkesiana, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nemra:pɨp] n. epiphyte growing in dense forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2991)

Example: Hunting: Flying foxes are attracted to this plant for their flowers. As a result, hunters gather around this plant when they desire to hunt the flying fox.

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of tree with stinging leaves

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. primary forest

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of tree with edible leaves and fruit (species of fig)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. Tahitian chestnut

Speaker: Martial Wahe

home

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nisej] n. shrub, 2.5-3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3077)

Example: This plant is used as a fiber; dry the leaves in the sun, and use them to make a grass skirt or other type of dress. Person in photo with this fiber on his arm is Narau Nasiv.

Scientific name: Euodia hortensis, 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

kind of breadfruit, has small fruits that are more oblong than round

Example: The stem of this variety is good for canoe-making as it will last for many years of use

Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

artery

Speaker: Martial Wahe

creek

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nui jasori] river

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

n. subshrub, 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3161)

Example: The leaf of this plant is added to soup in which meat is being cooked, for example, turtle meat, which has a strong smell. If this leaf is placed in the pot, it will make the soup smell better

Scientific name: Ocimum sanctum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. herb growing on roadside along coast road. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3169)

Example: This plant is used by dogs who have an upset stomach. They go to eat this grass and then their stomachs feel better. Pigs feed on this grass.

Scientific name: Eleusine indica, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

kind of yam, produces a tuber with a white flesh and red skin. It is easy to grow

Example: Soft when cooked

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. kind of parasitic vine (philodendron?)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of kava with smooth outer bark

Speaker: Martial Wahe

your heart

Speaker: Martial Wahe

my face

Speaker: Martial Wahe

foreigners, Europeans

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Humphead wrasse (male)

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

soursop fruit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Monarch

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

Scientific name: Danaus plexippus via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

Lesson’s thicklip, stiped sweetlips

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

Scientific name: Plectorhinchus lessonii via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

seawards

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cousin (older mother’s sister’s child, older father’s brother’s child)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

not long will be delight

(Bislama) stap broke delight

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n star path

Speaker: Martial wahe

exchange relation

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Striped Phyllidopsis

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

Scientific name: Phyllidiopsis xishaensis via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

duck

Speaker: Martial Wahe

hors fly

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. Tanna island

Speaker: Martial Wahe

tabu, taboo

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. house central post

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n. plant with white trumpet-shaped flowers, nightshade?

(Bislama) tƗmpúa

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Spotted Unicornfish

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

Scientific name: Naso brevirostris via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe