Nafe (Kwamera)

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

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v touch, nudge, rub, scratch, brush against

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v/a immobile, confined to a mat or bed

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green

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v/a 1. drown, sink; 2. deep, under water

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v work, produce, enlarge or improve (as one’s resources)

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v spread, spread out

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v waste, expend, use up

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v intr intersect, cross, lie across

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v intr abut, join with, stand on

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v intr move, act, stand or leave simultaneously

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v 1. push (as a stalled truck); 2. insert

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v 1. prepare, make ready (implies secrecy?); 2. act alone or anti-socially, avoid agreement

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v bathe a child ritually for the first time

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v drink, sip, seat (an orange)

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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)

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v help, assist

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n. a type of traditional exchange ceremony

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I shoot an arrow

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n. kind of coconut with large ’eyes’

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

absent minded

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duck (native)

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pond, small body of water

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he, her, him have a headache

(Bislama) hed blo hem i so.

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n cricket

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n testicle

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adj. stupid

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n. shrubs with long erect stems. white flowers on long pendulous hairy inflorescences (10-15 cm), white flowers with yellowish calyx and long peduncle. Leaves with long petioles (about 5 cm) (collection: Laurence Ramon #328)

Scientific name: Cyrtandra sp1, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

grater for taro

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kava (metaphorically), kava root which is ceremonially exchanged

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n. coconut which has been shelled leaving intact its meat

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. round basket made of coconut leaves

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n. low-growing herb, growing in dense forest heavily impacted by cyclone. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3259)

Example: When a person has diarrhea with blood (dysentery) , this is the plant medicine used to treat it. Take leaves and squeeze juice into a cup of water and give this to the person who is ill. One teaspoon for young children and for an adult 1 full cup in the morning each day until fully cured.

Scientific name: Hemigraphis reptans, 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. tree with a dense crown and edible fruit

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Burckella obovata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kwanjere] n. tree, 12-13 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3089)

Example: The nut inside of the fruit contains sap. Cut a fruit in half and stick it to a person’s arm, and then take it off, put earth on the place where the sap is, and it makes a temporary tatoo that lasts for 3-4 days. This fruit is the best flying fox food, and when the tree has ripe fruits many flying foxes go there to feed, and hunters know this. The fruits are eaten by people as well.

Scientific name: Burckella obovata, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

tribe name

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Redfin bream

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

Scientific name: Monotaxis heterodon via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n scorpion fish

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discourse particle hesitation discourse particle

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n. seed of nƗsuvás

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half beak fish

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place or destination

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n. type of manioc with a yellowish flesh (i.e., curry)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. slingshot

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brown pigeon

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Redbreasted wrasse

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

Scientific name: Cheilinus fasciatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

fruit fly, gnat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of cassava, a very productive variety

Scientific name: Manihot esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Violet squirrelfish

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

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

soldier fish

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ant

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n my ear

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n. kind of banana

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[name̤rbun] n. kind of tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3126)

Example: This tree is a good timber for rafters, the wood is soft. The English name is "Christmas Tree."

Scientific name: Serianthes ebudarum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. stage 1 in the development of coconuts, very small, not ready to eat or for any other use

Speaker: Martial Wahe

leaf worn on head

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n. kind of yam (high prestige)

Speaker: Jean Pascal 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 #5069)

Example: To treat constipation, take 1 handful of leaf, squeeze in water (small beer bottle size) drink the bottle all at once to loosen stool. Ripe fruits are eaten--as they are very sweet.

Scientific name: Ficus septica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. creeping herb with white flowers and red-orange fleshy fruit. (collection: Laurence Ramon #333)

Scientific name: Geophila repens, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. medicinal leaves applied to circumcision wounds

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. parasite on fallen ficus branch, growing in dense forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3136)

Example: When a person sees this in flower, they know that the taro is ready for harvest. Birds like the fruit and so boys like to hunt the birds near the plant.

Scientific name: Amyema aneityensis, Speaker: Martial 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

n. shrub, 2 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Cyrtandra obovata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, growing in disturbed forest/garden area.

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Barringtonia asiatica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

sunlight

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n. tree, 10-12 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3142)

Example: The wood from this tree makes a very good timber. Hunters know that the flying fox and pigeons like to eat the ripe fruits from this tree, so hunt near them when it is ripe.

Scientific name: Elaeocarpus angustifolius, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of Tahitian chestnut

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n. kind of plant, leaf used for penis wrapper

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. tree fork

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n. small plant with variegated leaves

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n. kind of kava with crinkled leaves

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n. your hair

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coconut fibre, outer husk, coir

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darkness

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

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n. tree (Pometia pinnata)

(Bislama) nantao

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Orange-socket surgeonfish

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

Scientific name: Acanthurus auranticavus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Pacific slopehead parrotfish, tan-faced parrotfish

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

Scientific name: Chlorurus frontalis via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Tricolour parrotfish

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

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

n my fingernail

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

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dad

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n. kind of sugarcane

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[Mountain beetwen imaki and yanarpon]

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n month name (archaic, corresponding to November)

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n. Tanna island

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Great barracuda

(Bislama) Barracuda

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

Scientific name: Sphyraena barracuda via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

lattice window in traditional house

Speaker: Martial Wahe

dish

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cordyline

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[tʰãmijen] n. small tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2984)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood.

Scientific name: Pipturus argenteus, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5121)

Example: Peel stem and chop pieces of stem and pieces of stem of Nothocnide repanda (MB 5122), 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: Pipturus argenteus, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n island

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flying fish

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kind of plantain, has large fruits

Example: Used for cooking

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

ray (general)

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

Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

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river lobster, kind of prawn

Speaker: Martial Wahe