Nafe (Kwamera)

v rub one’s backside against, wipe one’s ass

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr 1. run, proceed, go off, fly (as a flag), swim, flow (as water); 2. have diarrhoea

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v 1. must, have to, be obligated to, ought; 2. ask, request; 3. insist on, continue (in doing), demand, do anyway, proceed against advice, strive, try hard

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v touch, nudge, rub, scratch, brush against

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v 1. strike, hit (especially with a stone or rifle), have an effect on something; 2. tie together, bring together

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v fight with a club, wield a club

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green

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v intr leave, exit, escape, run away

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v intr live, stay at, exist at

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v throw, throw away, discard

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v intr babble (as a child)

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black

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v drink, sip, seat (an orange)

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seawards

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v. to clean brush, sweep or weed a garden, to clean for preparation, like kava

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cut my penis( circumsision)

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Port Vila

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1. light colored volcanic stone used as a whetstone for sharpening knives, 2. big man, wise man

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I rake (brush) or weed the herb

(Bislama) go weed

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n. Port Resolution

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grandparent

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num three

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my headache (pain)

(Bislama) hed blo mi so.

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Common bluestripe snapper

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

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

n mosquito larva

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Humpback grouper

Example: Photo by Richard Zerpe, License: CC BY 2.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Cromileptes altivelis via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Orange-spotted grouper

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

Scientific name: Epinephelus coioides via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Two-striped sweetlips, giant sweetlips (male)

Example: Photo by Ross D. Robertson / Shorefishes of the Neotropics, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

n. copra

(Bislama) kopra

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

cow

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n. kind of taro

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 my muscle

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Striated Surgeonfish, Lined Bristletooth, small silver scaled fish

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

Scientific name: Ctenochaetus striatus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

box fish

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bird name: kind of warbler?

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plant to be identified used for basketry

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kind of shellfish, mother-of-pearl

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brown pheasant dove

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Black Imperial Pigeon

Example: Illustration by Joseph Smit / Wikimedia Commons, License: Public domain via es.wikipedia.org

Scientific name: Ducula melanochroa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

damsel fish

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volcanic glass shards (Pele’s hair)

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[nakur] n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2973)

Example: Agricultural: When this plant is in flower, it is said that taro (Nerei) and Ipomoea (Kwarei) are ready to plant.

Scientific name: Boehmeria platyphylla, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Longface emperor

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

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

gathering

(Bislama) meeting

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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5037)

Example: Kastom medicine for male impotence (big bamboo = (Nare) penis). Take six 3 in. pieces of the young inflorescence before it opens, chop it and mix with a double handful of leaves from 5047 (Alternanthera brasiliana) add water (1 liter) and squeeze in cup. Patient drinks 2 bottles/day for 1 week, avoid alcohol--whisky, rum, no kava, no tobacco. Stay away from wife or partner. 1 week passes with this treatment, man is much more potent.

Scientific name: Etlingera elatior, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. tree, 15 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3235)

Example: The ripe fruits are the best food for the flying fox. Hunters know this. In older times, people ate the ripe fruit. The bark is used as a traditional "saucepan." Bark is rolled over food such as Island Cabbage or other edible leaves and put on top of the stone oven to cook.

Scientific name: Ficus granatum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[næhɨr] n. well branched tree, 10 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3111)

Example: People use trunk for houseposts as the stem is very straight. The stem also can be used for firewood.

Scientific name: Syzygium myriadenum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n volcanic clay used for body painting/adornment

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nasasa] n. banyan growing next to house along main path. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3150)

Example: The bark of this tree is used to make a kastom strap, particularly worn in the Toka Dance, where people have different ranks, and the kastom belt of this bark shows a person’s rank.

Scientific name: Ficus cf. tinctoria, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. shrub or tree

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Ficus septica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5144)

Example: Sawn timber. Very hard wood. Fruit bats enjoy eating from this tree. Hunters know this and will go there to hunt.

Scientific name: Syzygium nomoa, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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

Scientific name: Geophila repens, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5146)

Example: Stem used to make bow. Stem for ax handle.

Scientific name: Allophylus cobbe, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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

Scientific name: Hibiscus rosasinensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3026)

Example: Hunting: The wood of the tree is used, as the body of a spear, to hunt fishes and turtles. To fashion the spear, an appropriate length of wood is cut, debarked, heated (to straighten) and then topped with an iron point. Note: Iaruman is the name of the male form of this plant. Prane is the female form of this plant.

Scientific name: Rapanea amischocarpa, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. liana growing up a damaged macaranga dioica tree, growing in open forest heavily impacted by cyclone. flowering spadices green to tannish-yellow. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3241)

Example: The leaves, fruits and stems of this plant are used as pig food. The leaves are used to wrap lap lap in. Leaves are also used to cover a roof of a house--the top part or ridge.

Scientific name: Epipremnum pinnatum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. heat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[ne̤pa̤rɨm] n. vine, growing in disturbed forest/garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3103)

Example: Before there were many root crops such as taro and cassava, people would use the roots of this plant as a food, after roasting it in the fire. The roots are said to be very large and edible.

Scientific name: Pueraria lobata, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5042)

Example: Leaf used to feed pigs--when looking for dried coconuts, gather this. The seeds are edible put them directly on fire and cook for 3-5 minutes.

Scientific name: Canavalia rosea, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree to 30 m, dbh 2 m (collection: Michael J. Balick #4738)

Example: Wood is strong and good to make houses with, particuarly house posts. Also good for firewood.

Scientific name: Casuarina equisetifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. shrub, 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3258)

Example: A sharpened stick made from this plant is used to take the husk off of coconuts. The wood of this plant is used to make a child’s bow--carve the bark off and bend it with a string made from the banyon (Ficus) tree to both ends of the bow.

Scientific name: Acalypha grandis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. fruit, offspring

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family

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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. epiphyte. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2620)

Scientific name: Davallia sessilifolia, 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

mountain beetwen imaki and high hill

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n my pupil (of eye)

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n. terrestrial; leaves 1.0-1.5 m long. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2626)

Scientific name: Hypolepis elegans, Speaker: Martial Wahe

arrowhead, used for hunting fish, fowl or flying fox, traditionally made from black palm, now usually from metal

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spiny sea urchin

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n. 1. leaf, foliage 2. sheet, leaf (of paper)

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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5076)

Example: Leaves used in cooking to flavor soup. To cure sore known as "yaush" that is the size of a 50 vatu coin or larger, take 2-3 branches, collect leaves, put in pot, and warm. Wash the sore 3x day wash for 1-2 weeks. This disease is caused by flies and mosquitos. Yaush is the English name. Mosquito or fly bites the person, passes worm similar to filariasis, then a boil erupts and scratch it becomes big sore. Dry leaves and flowers, put in tin, and light it up to keep mosquitoes away. The smoke from this burning plant chases away mosquitoes like a coil.

Scientific name: Ocimum, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n my eyebrows

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morning

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n. period of the year preceding the yam harvest (October through March)

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n. kind of liana

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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

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

parrotfish (general name)

Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

wave, surf

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Blue-lined large-eye bream

Example: Photo by Jean-Lou Justine / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Gymnocranius grandoculis via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. tree that has seed pods (to be identified)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of Tahitian chestnut

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good morning

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v. intransitive walk uphill

Speaker: Wahe

[ʰrewi nɨmeri] n. thorn

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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. small house posts that support thatch

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my mum, my mother

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[tras] n. shrub to 1 m tall, flowers red. Ornamental plant in homestead garden. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4735)

Example: Ornamental plant

Scientific name: Rosa chinensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. foreskin

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n. semi-inalienable aerial root

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[təkrowus] n. once-branched tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3139)

Example: Stem used to plant kava (use it like a spade) but even when you have a spade, you should still use this to dig the hole. The leaf is used to make laplap, a food made from taro or yam with coconut and other foods added. Take the leaf and wrap the laplap and then roast the package on the fire or cook the leaf in a pot of water.

Scientific name: Cordyline fruticosa, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. tree, 15 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Dysoxylum aneityensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of fish

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baby

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Flathead grey mullet, sea mullet, grey mullet

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

Scientific name: Mugil cephalus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

canoe

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe