Nafe (Kwamera)

v intr swear, use bad language

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. precede, go first, go before (particularly when walking); 2. do something first

Speaker: Martial wahe

v hang onto, perch (as a bat), hang up (as a kerosene lantern)

Speaker: Martial wahe

beautiful, good

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v intr be sick

Speaker: Martial wahe

v work, produce, enlarge or improve (as one’s resources)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. cry; 2. pity

Speaker: Martial wahe

v spit

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v intr move, act, stand or leave simultaneously

Speaker: Martial wahe

v cut, slice

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v flee, become a refugee

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v see -ata apɨg

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v 1. sit, sit down; 2. be at, exist at

Speaker: Martial wahe

v help, assist

Speaker: Wahe Martial

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5079)

Example: Fruits eaten when they turn yellow and are ripe.

Scientific name: Psidium guajava, Speaker: Johnson Noar

hour

Speaker: Martial wahe

crayfish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

sea devil

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cousin (mother’s brother’s child)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

friend

Speaker: Martial Wahe

wheeled toy

Speaker: Martial Wahe

stage of coconut development

Speaker: Martial Wahe

digging stick, taro planting stick

Speaker: Martial Wahe

stick wall around garden

Speaker: Martial Wahe

how many? how much?

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bat (flying fox)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n social moiety

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Strawberry hind, strawberry grouper (deep sea)

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

Scientific name: Cephalopholis spiloparaea 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

coconut development stage 6

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of breadfruit

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

cow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bead

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. my kidney

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. kind of vine

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

coconut husking stave set in ground

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Pacific Emerald Dove

Example: Photo by mdekool / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Scientific name: Chalcophaps longirostris sandwichensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Orange-spotted emperor, yellowtail emperor

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

Scientific name: Lethrinus erythracanthus 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

[nameramir] n. liana, growing on myristica fatua in dense forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3041)

Example: Construction: The vine of this tree is used as rope to fasten members of a house or bundles of sugar cane. It is not considered a strong rope.

Scientific name: Hoya australis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of tree

(Bislama) nameli

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of coconut, characterized by a round fruit with a reddish color on the top of the fruit

Scientific name: Cocos nucifera, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. 1. kind of tree, 2. small plant with red flowers (var. of nanas), the sap is dangerous it can cause a rash

Speaker: Martial Wahe

tribe name

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. well branched tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3125)

Example: Children from Tanna and throughout Vanuatu use this plant to make a slingshot. As a "medicine," when chickens are ruining your garden, if you plant this plant it will chase away the chickens.

Scientific name: Ervatamia orientalis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4250)

Example: 1. The fruits are considered a special delicacy for men of Tanna island. Further information withheld.

Scientific name: Pometia pinnata, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

[ne̤wri] n. understory tree, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3134)

Scientific name: Melicope, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5069)

Example: To treat constipation, take 1 handful of leaf, squeeze in water (small beer bottle size) drink the bottle all at once to loosen stool. Ripe fruits are eaten--as they are very sweet.

Scientific name: Ficus septica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5038)

Example: Fruits edible when ripe. The stem is used for timber and sawn timber. Flowers attract fruit bats. Hunters, knowing this, hunt the bats at night.

Scientific name: Syzygium malaccense, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5060)

Example: Kastom medicine to ascertain the type of sickness a person has. Take two small 6 in. long branches with leaves, and place this on the person along with another unspecified plant. Will help diagnosis.

Scientific name: Breynia disticha, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5060)

Example: Kastom medicine to ascertain the type of sickness a person has. Take two small 6 in. long branches with leaves, and place this on the person along with another unspecified plant. Will help diagnosis.

Scientific name: Breynia disticha, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. wild cane, 2. arrow shaft

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. traditional leaf medicine

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. orange tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. fern

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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: Emmanuel Maasi

n. kind of yam, edible, white color

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nuk] wild yam

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 10-12 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3142)

Example: The wood from this tree makes a very good timber. Hunters know that the flying fox and pigeons like to eat the ripe fruits from this tree, so hunt near them when it is ripe.

Scientific name: Elaeocarpus angustifolius, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. kind of tree, 2. bark container used to wrap baked food

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable stems with leaves of plants such as cane or banana

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Hibiscus, species with edible leaves, ’island cabbage’

Speaker: Martial Wahe

their heart

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable small offshoot tubers

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. bush

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. a type of sugarcane, with brown skin, very sweet, planted in gardens

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree with small green fruit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of banyan tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

axe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of fish with black color

Scientific name: clown unicorn fish, 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

n. house post outside (

(Bislama) pos

Speaker: Jean Eskar

Lined Surgeonfish, Bluelined Surgeonfish ~ marasaw (Port Resolution dialect)

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

Scientific name: Acanthurus lineatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

wild pig

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

throw the stone

(Bislama) sakem stone

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Tang fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my incisor (tooth)

Speaker: Martial wahe

egg white

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n whirlpool

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Coconut Lorikeet

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Trichoglossus haematodus massena, Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut stages, one through eight

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my ankle

Speaker: Wahe

kava bowl

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[turma:ta] n. vine in hibiscus tiliaceus tree, growing on rocky roadside cut along coast road. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3163)

Example: The vine is used for rope. Collect a length of vine appropriate for the task, heat it over a fire, peel the outer "skin" off and use the rest of the vine, fresh, to tie the poles and rafters used to make a traditional house.

Scientific name: Cayratia trifolia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

whale species

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n day after tomorrow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Bulbnose Unicornfish, Humpnose Unicornfish

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

Scientific name: Naso tonganus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

wind direction: south-east wind

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Rusty jobfish

(Bislama) Silva Poulet

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

Scientific name: Aphareus rutilans via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

village between itapua and kwaraka

Speaker: Martial wahe

Spotted Unicornfish

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

Scientific name: Naso brevirostris via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

goatfish, small and red

Speaker: Martial Wahe