Nafe (Kwamera)

v/a be daylight, dawning

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v 1. feed (as a child or animal); fill (as a hole)

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green

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v 1. flatter, praise; 2. talk duplicitously, act hypocritically, change one’s side in a dispute

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v intr strive, do with effort

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v 1. rotate, turn in circles, turn aside, turn (something) around; 2. turn around at (a place)

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v intr make war, fight (as local groups)

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v var. of -rukwuvsini

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v intr intersect, cross, lie across

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v intr clear (as the sky), break up (as clouds) dawn

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adj. yellow

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chew

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v. to slap

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pilled yam (skin out)

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splet dry coconut intwo pieces

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n. house vertical support posts

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v. intransitive to bud or come into leaf

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morning star

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I am happy

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v I feel a pain in my body

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v. I see

(Bislama) mi look

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I dig yam

(Bislama) dikim yam

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adj. old and shriveled as a tuber

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star pattern

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brother in law, brother-in-law

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Yellow-banded snapper, hussar

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

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

vine use to tie houseposts

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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5134)

Example: Cut open ripe fruit, put red seed in mouth, chew them, then spit out hard seeds left. Ancients used to eat the seeds in this way -- certain people still like it.

Scientific name: Momordica charantia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Brown Chub, Grey Sea Chub, Grey Drummer

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

Scientific name: Kyphosus bigibbus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

kind of sea cucumber

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coffee beans (Bislama)

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Sixblotch hind, saddle grouper (deep sea)

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

Scientific name: Cephalopholis sexmaculata via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. a type of banana, often roasted on fires at the beach

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my elder brother’s son

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n. one

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Golden Whistler

Scientific name: Pachycephala pectoralis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of breadfruit, produces a large fruit with a smooth skin and very sweet flesh

Example: When a person eats it, the teeth feel sticky

Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5078)

Example: To treat indigestion, take 5 roots from 5 different plants, clean, grate into 600mL bottle of water. Drink one bottle twice daily. In Tanna, people use this plant to make rain, thunder, or to stop the rain. To make rain, take a big pile of this plant’s leaves, tie them in a bundle with a rope, and put into the sea. When the leaves start rotting, usually after one week, the rain will come.

Scientific name: Zingiber zerumbet, Speaker: Johnson Noar

butterfly fish

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n sunset

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Elongate surgeonfish

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: Martial Wahe

n. kind of wild yam (see namhu)

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[mɨriaki] small lizard or salamander

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[nakwanumɨn] rock earth oven

Example: see more on Youtube

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Ambon emperor

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

Scientific name: Lethrinus amboinensis via FishBase, 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

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

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of large fern

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n. plant; giant fern

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Angiopteris evecta, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nawes] 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: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. well branched tree, 12-15 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3098)

Example: When this plant flowers, along with an unspecified white flower, people know that a certain shellfish, locally known as Bari, is ready to harvest and eat.

Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. large, well branched tree (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4220)

Example: 1. Flying foxes, pidgeons and rats consume the fruits. 2. The wood is used as a commercial timber.

Scientific name: Elaeocarpus angustifolius, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of thick grass

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n. decayed stump

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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5082)

Example: Wood is very hard and good for making canoe. Wood is good to build house (house posts). Takes seeds from dried fruit, break them open, boil in water and collect oil that rises to the top. This oil used as massage oil. Rub oil from dried seeds in hair to kill lice.

Scientific name: Calophyllum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2975)

Example: Animal Feed: The whole plant is fed to pigs to keep them fat and healthy. It is referred to as “pig medecine” and is given once per week.

Scientific name: Cyrtandra obovata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree with edible fruits

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Terminalia catappa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree along the road, short trunk. pale grey bark. short erected leaves. small orange figs. (collection: Laurence Ramon #334)

Scientific name: Ficus obliqua, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. kind of yam (’sugar yam’)

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plant part to be identified used for tying

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n. decorative plant (Crinum sp.), Bislama: white lily. A kind of wild taro, eaten.

(Bislama) nuviavia

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5168)

Example: When a person becomes the chief, he embodies this tree, as this tree is considered the chief of all plants and always helps the community.

Scientific name: Ficus glandifera, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. kind of small kava with variegated leaves

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n. wild kava

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n. ashes for cleaning, ashes after fire

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Three-Stripe Fusilier

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

Scientific name: Pterocaesio trilineata via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree with small green fruit

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n. edible root plant type

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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5095)

Example: In times of disaster, can roast root in fire like sweet potatoe 20 min--chew the root to get the sweet tasting food and spit out fiber.

Scientific name: Pueraria montana, Speaker: Johnson Noar

storm

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n. kind of liana

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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: Martial Wahe

soursop fruit

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Palecheek parrotfish, Japanese parrotfish

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

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

brother

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Ficus sp. (kind of nukwesi)

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cat

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what

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n my incisor (tooth)

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Orbicular batfish

Example: Photo by Elias Levy / Flickr, License: CC BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Platax orbicularis via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. mother, mama

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hole for house post

Example: see more on Youtube

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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

[Mountain beetwen imaki and yanarpon]

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n fork in the road

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boy

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kind of snail

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cordyline

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[tuwa:i] n. tree, 10 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3006)

Example: Construction: The timber of this plant is used as a hardwood for any part of a house. It is also used to make dugout canoes. Tool: The wood of this plant is used to create the study part of a bow. It is noted, however, that there are better woods for this purpose.

Scientific name: Dysoxylum aneityense, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. tree, 15 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Dysoxylum aneityensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[tuwai] n. tree, 15 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3059)

Example: The stem is used to make house posts; the young stems are used to make bows and young boys use the bows made from this tree to hunt birds and flying foxes.

Scientific name: Dysoxylum aneityense, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

club, used for dancing

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n house component: side wall of house made of wild cane and bamboo

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dolphin

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I am fishing with a net

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Gold-saddle goatfish

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

Scientific name: Parupeneus cyclostomus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Black Soldier Fly

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

Scientific name: Hermetia illucens via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

bed

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