Nafe (Kwamera)

v shake, blow about (as the wind)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr look upwards, face upwards (as a playing card)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v/a 1. rest; 2. intoxicated, drunk

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. peel, cut skins off tubers

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v throw (more than one object)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr laugh

Speaker: Martial wahe

v break wind, fart, squirt (as an octopus’ jet)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr dive (as in the sea), skin dive

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v var. of -apwaha

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v 1. tie up, attach, bind, wrap in leaves (as food to bake), wear (something tied on); 2. carry on a pole with a man taking each end, carry on one’s back

Speaker: Martial wahe

enough hurt or killed children

Speaker: Martial Wahe

pull the plants

Speaker: Martial wahe

axe (of stone, for traditional canoe carving)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

type of sea urchin

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I paddle a canoe

(Bislama) mi baddle le kenou

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I dig yam

(Bislama) dikim yam

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I pick a coconut

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. herb growing on roadside along coast road. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3165)

Scientific name: Portulaca oleracea, Speaker: Martial Wahe

mullet (fish)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

day

Speaker: Martial wahe

Tiger Cowry

Example: via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Cypraea tigris via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Moluccan snapper

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

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

n. tree, small

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Meryta neo-ebuca, Speaker: Martial Wahe

her sister

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kava (metaphorically), kava root which is ceremonially exchanged

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Varicose Wart Slug

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

Scientific name: Phyllidia varicosa via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

kind of basket woven with young coconut leaves.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n morning star

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Coral grouper, coral rock grouper (deep sea)

Example: Photo by J. E. Randall, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

Starspotted grouper (deep sea)

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

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

One-spot snapper

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

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

v vers

(Bislama) vesem

Example: joined something like robe or joined relationship between two people.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n cat’s cradle game

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n traditional house

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[konapwit] n. herb to 50 cm, flowers pink (collection: Michael J. Balick #4721)

Example: This plant is used to treat diarrhea. A person takes 1 handful of leaves, washes the soil off, chews them and gets the juice out of the leaves, spits out the fibers and left over parts of the leaves. Chew this regularly until the diarrhea goes away if a person has a bad case; for a mild case, chew only once. It is said that a person has to "listen to the plant" until the diarrhea stops. It is said to be better for this condition than Psidium (guava).

Scientific name: Desmodium, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. my kidney

Speaker: Martial wahe

fish hook

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sweet potato

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of banyan tree (var. of ruviru)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n barnacle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

flute

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. fishing line

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n. banana flower (lit. banana cock)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. a secondary sprout or shoot (of a plant)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of plant, used to make ropes

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Globehead parrotfish

Example: Photo by J. E. Randall, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

n full moon (moon phase)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. manioc (var. of manto)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Streamlined spinefoot, forktail rabbitfish (salt water)

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

Scientific name: Siganus argenteus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Vermiculated spinefoot, vermiculate rabbitfish

Example: Photo by Rick Winterbottom / FishWise Professional, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Siganus vermiculatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

penis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Yellowmargin triggerfish

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

Scientific name: Pseudobalistes flavimarginatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

dawn

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nakɨr] n. terrestrial fern, 1 to 1.5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3027)

Example: Food: Young leaves are eaten cooked.

Scientific name: Ptisana smithii, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n flint stone (for making fire)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. plant (to be identified)

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Salacia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

plant (to be identified)

(Bislama) nalalas

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Ornate emperor

Example: Photo by Digital Archives of Taiwan / via catalog.digitalarchi License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Lethrinus ornatus via FishBase, 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

fog

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my eye socket

Speaker: Martial wahe

Harry hotlips (female)

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

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

cousin (mother’s brother’s child)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

stratus cloud

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cumulus cloud

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my tongue

Speaker: Martial wahe

kind of yam, produces a tuber with white flesh and red skin. It can grow long and large in good soil, but is not a sweet yam, more starchy than many others. It is easy to grow

Example: Locally known as a “Chief’s Yam” as it is given to the Chief as a gift because it is one of the original yam varieties grown on Tanna

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

Whitesands language

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of fern

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

tribe name

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. blue water tree, used for timber and canoe building, artistic carving

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. decayed stump

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. belt and penis wrapper

Speaker: Martial Wahe

machete

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nuk] wild yam

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nukuk arman] 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: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of tree, wood used for pierced ear and septum ornaments

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of liana

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. black kava (stems are black color)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bridge

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree, with edible green fruit with sweet milky white flesh, collected wild and eaten on Tanna

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. traditional medicine, cure for illness caused by Mwatiktiki (culture hero responsible for yam growth)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

face

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable leaves (usually indicates plurality): plants, plantation, trees, etc.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut leaf stalk

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. edible root plant type

Speaker: Martial Wahe

eclipse (lunar?)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

barracuda

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of green and reddish coconut

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Longfin emperor

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

Scientific name: Lethrinus erythropterus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

arm

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n sea urchin

Speaker: Martial Wahe

a type of white fungus that grows on trees

Speaker: Martial Wahe

braided coconut husk rope

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of kava with small trunk and long roots, a special kava used in custom ceremony

Speaker: Martial Wahe

dish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[tuprapwej] n. understory tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3143)

Example: The wood of this tree makes good house posts and is also used as firewood

Scientific name: Claoxylon, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Largescale mullet

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

Scientific name: Liza macrolepis via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Cinnabar goatfish

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

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

Yellowstripe goatfish

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

Scientific name: Mulloidichthys flavolineatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe