Nafe (Kwamera)

v carry piggyback

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr stay behind, remain, lie down

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr leave, exit, escape, run away

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v grasp, keep, retain, hold onto (as property), be faithful to (as a person)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v overtake, bypass

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr stop raining, clear

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v explode (as a volcano), pound (as the surf), break

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v intr abut, join with, stand on

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v. peel, cut skins off tubers

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v intr hop (on one foot)

Speaker: Wahe Martial

snow

Speaker: Martial wahe

adj. good, beautiful, useful

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. bend down (imperative)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

go sit down

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. French

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. small tubercles which grow on kava root

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[iarumanu] chief

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[jarmaveis] big devil

Speaker: Martial Wahe

the day before yesterday

Speaker: Martial Wahe

sleeping mat of woven pandanus

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Spanish flag, stripey

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

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

n. tree, growing in disturbed forest/garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3102)

Example: People use this plant for firewood

Scientific name: Hedycarya dorstenioides, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of tree mushroom

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of seashell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

assistance, help

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. corn

(Bislama) kon

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Brownspotted grouper (deep sea)

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

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

n. tree. mature green fruit with an abundant white latex, edible (collection: Laurence Ramon #321)

Scientific name: Garcinia pseudoguttifera, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5136)

Example: To tie the wall of a house, strip off leaves and tie fresh to house.

Scientific name: Flagellaria indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Tomato hind, tomato grouper (deep sea)

Example: Photo by Ian V. Shaw / ALA, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

condom

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. coconut leaf for brooms

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of breadfruit

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. understory treelet, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4210)

Scientific name: Psychotria milnei, Speaker: Martial Wahe

brain coral

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

n. 1. seedpod of niapwit, 2. glue, tree sap, sticky substances, 3. tag (children’s game)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n volcano bomb

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree (bark used in the production of tapa cloth)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n door, doorway

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. slingshot

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. paper

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n. coconut leaf roof thatching

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Jean Eskar

White-spotted spinefoot, white-spotted rabbitfish (salt water)

Example: Photo by Rick Stuart-Smith / Reef Life Survey, License: CC BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

blue fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of fern, edible, often fried or boiled with milk

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5154)

Example: To treat broken bones combine two handfuls of Commelina diffusa and 2 handfuls of this whole Orchid. Then take half of that and rub on broken bone area (e.g. leg). The Kastom doctor will then make a cut with a sharp piece of bamboo along break. The bone is then wrapped with the leaf of this orchid, then take the pother half of the mixture, mash in water 1.5 liter, and give person to drink. This treatment will help join bone back together.

Scientific name: Malaxis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

play, game

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[narwaperien] lightning

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nijæpər] n. sparsely branched shrub, 1.5-2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3083)

Example: This plant is used as an ornamental, and is important to plant on graves. The color signifies a grave.

Scientific name: Codiaeum variegatum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. sparsely branched shrub, 1.5-2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3083)

Example: This plant is used as an ornamental, and is important to plant on graves. The color signifies a grave.

Scientific name: Codiaeum variegatum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

kind of plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5063)

Speaker: Johnson Noar

basalt

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. liana growing on trunk of hedycarya dorstenioides, in dense forest along ridge. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3009)

Example: Animal Feed: The green leaves of this plant are used to feed pigs. Hunting: The inner part of the long dry rhizome is woven to create a pidgeon trap.

Scientific name: Epipremnum pinnatum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

when?

Speaker: Martial Wahe

plant used to make grass skirt

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of yam, edible, white color, used for frying, also in laplap

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5061)

Example: Use stem to build roof rafters. Before people had matches, this plant was used to light fires by rubbing one stem of this against another piece of the same tree.

Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

earthquake

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nisi apram] n. tree to 3 m, dbh 4 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4727)

Example: The leaves of this plant are used to make a women’s grass skirt. Men use these leaves to put in a band around the arm as decoration. For kastom ceremony, take coconut endosperm, chew with this leave and covery body. It makes the body smell very nice. When a person has a fever, mix this leaf with other leaves including Annona muricata and Citrus species. Then the person sits over a steaming pot and inhales it to reduce the fever and symptoms. If you need to go to a "tabu" place, where the spirit can make you sick, a person can bathe with the leaves of this plant ...

Scientific name: Euodia hortensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[nokwai nɨfaŋa] arrow and bow

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. fur of mouse or rat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of taro with yellow flesh

Speaker: Martial Wahe

spiny sea urchin

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

coral

Speaker: Martial Wahe

his face

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut fibre, outer husk, coir

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Pisonia umbrellifera tree, very soft wood, big trunk and branches, has black stinging seed pods

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of banyan tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of sweet potato

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. dry banane leaf (used to roll tobacco)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. nutmeg tree, Myristica fatua

Speaker: Martial Wahe

wind direction from the north

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Meadow Argus

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

Scientific name: Junonia villida via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[peha] axe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Red parrotfish

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

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

Oriental sweetlips

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

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

seawards

Speaker: Martial Wahe

my elder brother

Speaker: Martial wahe

Grass emperor

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

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

kind of fish: spiny puffer?

Speaker: Martial Wahe

grandparent

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of mollusk

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my glottis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

string game (bed shape)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my ankle

Speaker: Wahe

n. small shrub with red sap

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my liver

Speaker: Martial wahe

kind of seaweed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

sea

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[tiki nau] n. bamboo bench

Speaker: Martial Wahe

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cloth

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n cocoon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. herb, 40-60 cm tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3252)

Example: Introduced species, no use known.

Scientific name: Commelina benghalensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

I’m cold

(Bislama) mi kolkol

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of plantain, a small plantain

Example: Used for cooking (boiling)

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar