Nafe (Kwamera)

v/a be daylight, dawning

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v wring, wring out (as kava from a strainer), squeeze by hand

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v. cut bush for a garden, scratch (one’s head)

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v/a greasy, oily, shiny and sleek with hair pomade, grease, oil

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v 1. call out, cry out, sound, bark, neigh, ring; 2. cry, weep

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v carry on one’s back, carry on a truck bed

Speaker: Wahe Martial

black

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ceremony

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adj. thirsty

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v. bend down (imperative)

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v. open

(Bislama) openem

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v. come here! (imperative)

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go dive

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Vanuatu

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v I killed the pig

(Bislama) mi kilim pig

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n. a kind of sweet potato

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cousin (mother’s brother’s child)

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all right

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n. traditional broom

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num three

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a type of mushroom, grows on ground or tree

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Common silver-biddy

Example: Photo by Andrey Ryanskiy / FishBase, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Gerres oyena via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5143)

Example: Use this plant to stop the rain, take 4 tips of the plant’s branch and place them in a cross formation, with the tips pointing N, S, W, E, wash them in sea water, and then call for the rain to stop. Hang these tips in a tree with rope for five days. Stem used to weave roof rafter to attach coconut fronds to stick. Young men hunting in bush with slingshots, when run out of stones, use these young fruits to hunt birds.

Scientific name: Meryta neoebudica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n named rock formation on Yasur volcano

Speaker: Martial Wahe

her sister

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middle vent in Iasur crater

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Common Myna

Example: Photos by Byron Chin / Flickr, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Acridotheres tristis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5101)

Example: To treat ciguatera disease (fish toxin), boil a double handful of the male flower, in 2 liter water, 10-15 min. Drink all at once warm. Drink one pot daily for 2 days. Leaves and flowers to feed pigs. Fruit edible. Slice the green fruit and boil it to make soup or fry it in oil and make a salad. Ripe fruit to make jam.

Scientific name: Carica papaya, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. corn

(Bislama) kon

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[kwənka:mun] n. large herb, 0.5 to 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3002)

Example: Ornamental: The white fruits of this plant are used as pendants to fashion a necklace for a man, woman or child.

Scientific name: Coix lacryma-jobi, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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

Coral hind, coral grouper (deep sea)

Example: Photo by Jan Messersmith, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

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

kind of yam, produces tubers with white flesh. It is fast-growing and produces a large bunch of tubers

Example: Very sweet and sticks to the teeth when eaten

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. pigsty

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4233)

Example: 1. The inner skin of the stem is used to weave grass skirts and nambas. 2. Pidgeons eat the fruits.

Scientific name: Wikstroemia indica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

after

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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5041)

Example: Flower attracts flying fox--hunters know this. Nut is edible, eat green, split fruit to obtain it. Raw, can also fry it in oil and dry in sun, keep 1-2 week to eat. Thios is an important food for the cyclone season. People prepare it when they know the cyclone is coming (emergency food).

Scientific name: Barringtonia racemosa, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. central spine of a coconut frond

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Asian House Gecko

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

Scientific name: Hemidactylus frenatus via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

upraised coral

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of sugarcane, small, yellow in color

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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5151)

Example: Houseposts. Straps used to tie wood to roof during thatching.

Scientific name: Avicennia marina, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Green winged ground pigeon

Scientific name: Chalcophaps indica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Milkfish

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

Scientific name: Chanos chanos via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

worm

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of plantain from Fiji

Example: Used for cooking

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. species of magnolia tree

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Pittosporum campelli, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5113)

Example: Planted along the coast and used for protection against storms.

Scientific name: Scaevola taccada, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. kind of tree, Alphitonia zizyphoides, bark used as medicine to encourage the growth of pigs

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. my drinking coconut

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n. variety of coconut with short trunk

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[naswajoʊ] n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3108)

Scientific name: Ficus, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. large, well branched tree (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4226)

Example: 1. Flying foxes are attracted to the flowers. 2. The bole is used to make end posts of western style houses known as nimah itoga. 3. Wood is used to make axe handles.

Scientific name: Metrosideros collina, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5049)

Example: Used for house posts, rafters, and other construction-- very good for building in Tanna. Scrape the stem and put the pieces into a cup. Squeeze these pieces through with water, pour into a glass, and give to someone with heavy menstrual bleeding. 1 stem used to fill a cup, and drink one liter a day forone week. It is thought that shark meat causes bleeding. This will solve that. This plant is called "medicine of the shark".

Scientific name: Melicope, Speaker: Johnson Noar

sky, heavens

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5077)

Example: Stem used to make canoe. Easy to cut.

Scientific name: Hernandia nymphaeifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Hibiscus tiliaceus

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. parasitic epiphyte growing on upper branches of fagraea berteroana, in dense forest along ridge. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3012)

Example: Hunting: Birds are attracted to this plant for their flowers. As a result, hunters gather around this plant when they desire to hunt these birds.

Scientific name: Amyema aneityensis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. fern tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5031)

Example: For Kastom ceremonies, use this plant to decorate the roots of Kava that is given to a chief. Also used in women’s grass skirt for kastom dance. When young girls are getting their first period (menstruation), they wear a grass skirt from this plant to be fragrant (in order to cover any blood smell).

Scientific name: Euodia hortensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nme̤hu] n. tree growing along ridge track in disturbed forest, next to garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2979)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood.

Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. epiphyte on syzygium myriadenum, outside of transect. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2608)

Example: 1. A locally revered kestrel, known as tikurkak, makes its bed with the fronds of this fern.

Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

kind of taro

Example: Good for roasting in an earth oven and has a very nice taste

Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

coconut stage, large sprout

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree (Cerbera odollam) (with poisonous fruit with white sap inside tree and fruit)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5138)

Example: Remove base from flower and chew flower--tastes sweet. Long ago there were no pens, you could use this flower to write message on wood.

Scientific name: Malvaviscus arboreus, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. kava shoot with a double sprout

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n. kind of kava with crinkled leaves

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hurricane

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kind of fish trap

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[nɨpeiaka] n. dry coconut husk

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut fibre, outer husk, coir

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n half moon (first quarter or last quarter moon phase)

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n. kind of tree (used for house posts)

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n. kind of banyan tree, bark used for tapa cloth

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n. kind of reddish coconut

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Common Grass Blue

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

Scientific name: Zizina labradus via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

Singapore parrotfish, greenthroat parrotfish

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

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

n rudder (of boat)

Speaker: Martial wahe

Japanese large-eye bream

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

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

cousin (older mother’s sister’s child, older father’s brother’s child)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

his/her mum, his/her mother

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frigate bird?

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n. inalienable kava sprout, transplanted from one garden to another

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n star path

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I fight you, you gonna shit

(Bislama) by mi faetem you by yu sisit.

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Loch’s Chromodoris

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

Scientific name: Chromodoris lochi via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Spanish Dancer

Example: via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Hexabranchus sanguineus via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2980)

Example: Construction: The timber of this plant is used as a hardwood for any part of house. It is considered a strong wood.

Scientific name: Claoxylon fallax, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. large, well branched tree (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4236)

Example: 1. Pidgeons ear the fruits. 2. The wood, being pliable, is used to fashion the limbs of hunting bows. 3. The bole is used as posts in western style houses.

Scientific name: Dysoxylum aneityense, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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: Emmanuel Maasi

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: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5090)

Example: Take a coconut leaf, take out the midribs so it becomes a sharp spine, impale the seeds on this, and light them for use as a torch. Leaf used to cover earth oven, and can be put between the stones and the wrapped cooking leaves in order to keep the food clean. Children play with the seeds as marbles

Scientific name: Ricinus communis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

echo

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of tick

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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5141)

Scientific name: Geophila, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

shellfish type

Speaker: 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

Yokmaneri village

Speaker: Martial Wahe