Nafe (Kwamera)

v 1. slide on, slip, strip off (as leaves); clean (as kava with coconut fibre), clear away debris, clear one’s throat; 3. sober up (from alcohol or kava) by clearing one’s throat with food or water; 4. massage

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. stir (as with a spoon), crank; 2. swing one’s arms (as in a nupu dance)

Speaker: Martial wahe

drown

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v var. of -rukwuvsini

Speaker: Martial wahe

v buy, pay a salary, pay someone for something

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr babble (as a child)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. wring, squeeze through a strainer (as kava); 2. walk with a cane

Speaker: Martial wahe

v swallow

Speaker: Wahe Martial

feed pig

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. look up! (imperative)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. stand (imperative)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. to fight with

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Port Vila

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Aneityumese

Speaker: Martial Wahe

pond, small body of water

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, small

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

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

n. interior house cross post

Speaker: Jean Eskar

a children’s game

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of high prestige yam

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Cardinal Honeyeater

Scientific name: Myzomela cardinalis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

traditional woven fan

Speaker: Martial Wahe

my elder sister

Speaker: Wahe Martial

n. flying fox

Speaker: Martial Wahe

flying fox

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Moorish idol fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. round basket made of coconut leaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Blacksaddle grouper (deep sea)

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

Scientific name: Epinephelus howlandi 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

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

n. lemon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

traditional spoon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. terrestrial, climbing vine-like. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2618)

Example: The rachis is used to fasten posts and rafters in traditional houses.

Scientific name: Lygodium reticulatum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

kind of taro, has reddish-white flesh

Example: Good for cooking and making lap-lap

Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. plant with sticky leaves and seed pods

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable small side tubers off a main root tuber; small yam tubers

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n volcano bomb

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of yam, produces a tuber with reddish flesh. The tuber can be up to 2 meters long and very hard inside, taking a long time to boil. It is easy to grow

Example: During boiling, the water is said to turn red in color and then changes to whatever the color is of what it is being cooked with

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

chest

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. seed

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

leaf used to wrap kava roots for ceremonial purposes

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of shellfish, mother-of-pearl

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of fern (var. of nƗnhupwi)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

listening

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Bluelined surgeonfish

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

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

Speaker: Martial wahe

[naŋema:fu] n. tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3018)

Example: Construction: The timber of this plant is used as a wood to construct the posts of a house. It is also used to fashion paddles as an accessory to a canoe.

Scientific name: Turrillia lutea, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Rough triggerfish, spotted oceanic triggerfish, oceanic triggerfish

Example: Photo by Ross Robertson / Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific online information system, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Canthidermis maculata via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nakoŋ har] n. tree to 4 m tall, 25 cm dbh (collection: Michael J. Balick #4734)

Example: For Kastom ceremony, chew the leaves with the white endosperm of coconut and then rub on body to enjoy the fragrant aroma. Sometimes when a person is working hard, and are tired, they take this leaf, mix it with ground coconut and wash in salt water. When planting yams, a bunch of leaves with this plant are mixed with wild cane and burned, and the ash put int he ground as one plants the yams.

Scientific name: Pittosporum campbellii, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of banana

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of banana

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cloudy in the mountain

Speaker: Martial 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

Thumbprint emperor, blackspot emperor

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

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

n. kind of tree, leaf used as a penis wrapper, also warmed on fire and rubbed on stomach to facilitate kava intoxication

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

your eye

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 6 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Alphitonia zizyphoides, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Black-and-White Snapper

Example: Photo by dachalan / Flickr, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Macolor niger via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

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

[nata he] n. tree to 4 m tall, dbh 25 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4732)

Example: The tree is planted as a fence around the garden to keep out chickens. Branches with a "Y" are used to make slingshots.

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5080)

Example: When there are too many rats in house, put a layer of leaves underneath a piece of food in the corner of the house. When the rat steps on the leaf, as the underside is itchy, it will swell the leg of the rat, making it hard for him to move so you can find them in the morning and kill them easily.

Scientific name: Psychotria trichostoma, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

yesterday

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nikere] n. tree to 3 m tall, dbh 10 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4739)

Example: Local medicine, secret use.

Scientific name: Breynia disticha, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5018)

Example: For counting, for example tallying the number of people invited for kava or food, each person can be represented by a pinnae. When done marking each pinnae for a person, take off the rest. Then you’ll be able to return and see the number of pinnae remaining on the rachis if how many people will be coming. Used to make a bird trap. Bleed sap from cut on stem of this tree onto fibers of Pneumatopteris sp. (MB 5018) The fern fibers are rolled into a ball and used to soak up the sap from the tree. Then remove the fern fibers once you have a ball of sap. These fibers are then discarded. The

Scientific name: Pneumatopteris, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

[nɨŋgare̤me] n. shrub, 4-6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3090)

Example: This plant is known as "fishbone leaf" as the edge of the leaf tears away and the remaining part is serrated. It is a powerful medicine that is secret.

Scientific name: Leea indica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bamboo rear wall of traditional (cyclone) house

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. small tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3240)

Example: People use the wood of this plant to make arrows. When hunting flying fox, people cut a 2’ pieces of the stem to throw at the animal and catch it.

Scientific name: Psychotria trichostoma, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. 1. kind of tree (from which combs are carved), 2. comb

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v. to love

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nokwai nɨfaŋa] arrow and bow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nuas] island cabbage

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. canarium nut fruit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. charcoal

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nukwe:si] n. tree, growing in disturbed forest/garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3105)

Example: People eat the young leaves, boiling them in water until they are soft and ready to eat. Or, the green leaves are edible when raw, put coconut flesh and salt in the leaf and eat.

Scientific name: Ficus wassa, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of banana

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of kava with short branches

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. mistletoe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

branched coral

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable small offshoot tubers

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree used for house posts

Speaker: Martial Wahe

foreigners, Europeans

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nɨpunɨpun] spider web

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. luminescent fungi or algae; something bright, sparkling like the lights of the city

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[peha] axe

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: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

kind of crab that lives in dirty water

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. ?? s/he asks you

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n sound

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5022)

Example: The hard stem is used for house posts. To protect food in the earth oven from burning, use the peeled bark in large pieces to either wrap around banana leaves or as an extra layer.

Scientific name: Trema cannabina, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

honey

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n ceremonial circumcision exchange cycle

Speaker: Lindstrom 1986

today pool of water

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of shell. Possibly family Turbinidae.

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, Dec. 2017

Speaker: Martial Wahe

foreskin

Speaker: Martial Wahe

window in traditional house (Bislama)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Longnose trevally (male)

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

Scientific name: Carangoides chrysophrys via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Bluespine unicornfish

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

Scientific name: Naso unicornis via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe