Nafe (Kwamera)

v start, be surprised by something

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr smack lips (as to call a dog)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. order, set in order; 2. clean up, police, collect leavings of food (for fear of sorcery)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v support, hold up (as a crossbar by two supporting posts)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v reach out, grab, punch at, swim the crawl, shadow box

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. open (as a door), open up (as a trunk or other closed object); 2. clear or empty out (as dirt from a hole), reveal

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. transitive eat sugarcane

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v var. of -apwaha

Speaker: Wahe Martial

n. well branched tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3091)

Example: The leaf can be used to wrap food for carrying, for example, wrapping up crabs.

Scientific name: Dillenia biflora, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Tanna placename: a waterfall and pool near Mt. Merin and Tukusmera, said to be the origin of Tanna greenstone pendants

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. French

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I rake (brush) or weed the herb

(Bislama) go weed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

a stage of coconut development

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Iatukwei village

Speaker: Martial Wahe

man, husband

Speaker: Martial Wahe

type of three pronged fish spear-head

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n month name (archaic, corresponding to October)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

stage of coconut development

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

n. terrestrial; uncommon. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2610)

Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

a children’s game

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of plant with sticky seed pods, seeds used medicinally for many ailments, including stomach ache

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Common Myna

Example: Photos by Byron Chin / Flickr, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Acridotheres tristis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

pig pen

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Pustulose Wart Slug

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

Scientific name: Phyllidiella pustulosa via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

n morning star

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n social moiety

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5104)

Example: Break endocarp with knife and eat it. Children eat young green seeds. mature endocarp cleaned and used to play marbles. Split stem and use for floor of house. Leaf used to wrap cassava for roasting in ground oven or dried on fire. Young seedlings pulled up and meritsem eaten as food (Nanimen) palm heart of young tree.

Scientific name: Veitchia spiralis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Whitespotted grouper (deep sea)

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

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

coconut stage, 6th (sixth); has a small sprout

Speaker: Martial Wahe

agreement

Speaker: Martial Wahe

num ten ("five five")

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n small stones, pebbles

Speaker: Martial Wahe

club, with serrated edges

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. magically treated stalk of wild cane used in kava fertility spells or to tabu a garden, road, etc.

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[kwanapwɨt] n. herb growing on roadside along coast road. Flowers bluish-purple. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3164)

Example: The leaves of this plant are used to treat diarrhea. Take a handful of leaves, chew them and suck out the liquid and swallow it, then spit out the fiber and all that remains in the mouth. Also known to be good as a cattle feed.

Scientific name: Desmodium canum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. nutmeg

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Green winged ground pigeon

Scientific name: Chalcophaps indica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of ground dove

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Giant trevally (deep sea)

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

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

n. manioc (var. of manto)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of cassava, has yellow flesh—the name means “yellow curry”

Scientific name: Manihot esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

soldier fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Bluelined surgeonfish (fresh water)

Example: Photo by John E. Randall, License: CC BY-NC 3.0

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

minute

Speaker: Martial wahe

Peregrine falcon

Scientific name: Falco peregrinus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

ant

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n month name (archaic, corresponding to January)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n moon crater

Speaker: Martial Wahe

creek

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Pink ear emperor

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

Scientific name: Lethrinus lentjan via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Ringtail surgeonfish

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

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

n. flesh, internal parts, meat (as of a nut or fruit)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n my eye

Speaker: Martial wahe

[napwejsen] n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3140)

Example: The wood from this tree makes strong house posts as well as timber for benches and can be used as firewood. If you don’t have soap, you can take the leaf, mash it up and wash with it--it produces a foam that cleans. Use for washing yourself, for example. If this tree has fruits, then people know that it is a good time to plant sweet potatoes and other crops.

Scientific name: Alphitonia zizyphoides, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

coconut

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. herb to 2-3 m tall in secondary forest clearing, flowers white with yellow-red corolla. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4724)

Example: this plant is used to make the head lei, Kuanari, to welcome visitors. It is also used as an ornamental around local houses.

Scientific name: Alpinia speciosa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n fumarole: an opening in a planet’s crust, often in areas surrounding volcanoes, which emits steam and gases such as carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen chloride, and hydrogen sulfide.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nata he] n. tree to 4 m tall, dbh 25 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4732)

Example: The tree is planted as a fence around the garden to keep out chickens. Branches with a "Y" are used to make slingshots.

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. well branched tree, 10 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2983)

Example: Agricultural: When in flower, taro (Nerei) is said to be ready for harvest.

Scientific name: Metrosideros collina, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. shrub or tree

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Dendrocnide, Speaker: Martial Wahe

psetl-like stick used to mash the kava in the strainer leaves, and to observe the taboo on touching kava with the hands

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Scientific name: Hibiscus rosasinensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. understory plant, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4209)

Example: 1. Ripe fruits are used to feed pigs. The food is considered to fatten the pigs and is fed to them accordingly.

Scientific name: Cyrtandra, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. small plant with variegated leaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. root fibre

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. house

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Mountain beetwen yatukwei and High hill

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. Indian mulberry (Morinda citrifolia), eaten or used for medicine to heal many ailments, and as a poison antidote, also gives energy and improved cognitive function, has a bad taste

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my elbow

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

n my left foot

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. kind of vine

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of kava with variegated leaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of kava artificially sprouted at an upper node of a planted cutting (large tapuga are exchanged during circumcision feasts)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

his heart

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree (used for bows to hunt flying fox, and for traditional medicine), Goats like to eat the leaves.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n moustache

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. luminescent fungi or algae; something bright, sparkling like the lights of the city

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Pea Blue

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

Scientific name: Lampides boeticus via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

Yellowbarred Parrotfish

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

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

his brother

Speaker: Martial Wahe

caterpillar

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Hound needlefish, crocodile long-tom

Example: Photo by Philippe Bourjon / Fishbase, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Tylosurus crocodilus crocodilus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

my mum, my mother

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bag

Speaker: Martial Wahe

evening star

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my glottis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. arrow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5093)

Example: For an earache, take a double handful of leaves, mash, and squeeze in your ear.

Scientific name: Calyptocarpus vialis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

small shoot or sprout of a plant

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. small flying fox

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of yam, edible

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of shell. Possibly family Turbinidae.

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, Dec. 2017

Speaker: Martial Wahe

rope

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of woody, flowering plant

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Cordiline fruticosa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

two days from now

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of stingray

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5118)

Example: Young stems are used to support the roof of ther house. Use yellow sap for glue. Fruits and flowers eaten by flying fox. Same effect as poison tree, they do not fly correctly, often falling and can be harvested to eat.

Scientific name: Melicope latifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

goatfish; this example is possibly a Cinnabar goatfish

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