Nafe (Kwamera)

v wear a hat, cover (something)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. come from, start at (as a place); 2. in interrogative constructions: which, where

Speaker: Wahe Martial

adj. be spoiled, rotten, stink (as food)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v call, call out to, invite

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. open (as a door, trunk); 2. begin, ceremonially open (as a new road)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v leap, jump up to, fly off (as a bird), take off (as a plane)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. flow (as water), blow, push before (as the wind); 2. feel the need to urinate or defecate

Speaker: Wahe Martial

angel

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. a type of traditional exchange ceremony

Speaker: Martial Wahe

adj. slippery

Speaker: Martial Wahe

anywhere

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cut my penis( circumsision)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. to fight with

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. look down! (imperative)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. intransitive to bud or come into leaf

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Tanna placename: a waterfall and pool near Mt. Merin and Tukusmera, said to be the origin of Tanna greenstone pendants

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I rake (brush) or weed the herb

(Bislama) go weed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I am listening

(Bislama) mi lisen

Speaker: Martial Wahe

flood

Speaker: Martial Wahe

absent minded

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. rake

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Yellow-striped Flutterer

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

Scientific name: Rhyothemis phyllis via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

n. kind of taro

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n cricket

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. coconut leaf basket

Speaker: Jean Eskar

kind of sea shell; droga

(Bislama) Droka

Example: eatable shell, boiled in the saucepan or roasted in the fire

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5134)

Example: Cut open ripe fruit, put red seed in mouth, chew them, then spit out hard seeds left. Ancients used to eat the seeds in this way -- certain people still like it.

Scientific name: Momordica charantia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

cylindrical throwing club, throwing stick

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of plant with sticky seed pods, seeds used medicinally for many ailments, including stomach ache

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, up to 15 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Barringtonia edulis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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. This 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: Emmanuel Maasi

after

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kwenasənas] n. epiphyte growing on neonauclea forsteri trunk, about 2-3 m above ground (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2977)

Example: Ornamental: The tiny seeds, appearing as a powder, are used to decorate one’s face during kastom ceremonies. The plant is used when the fruit is yellow.

Scientific name: Dendrobium, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n fish species: possibly lung fish? (is this attested in Vanuatu?)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. almond tree (Terminalia catappa)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of taro, has white flesh; this is the common taro

Example: Good for eating

Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n larva

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. red pepper, hot pepper

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

unicorn fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

ladder (Bislama)

(Bislama) lata

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. paper

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n. laplap leaf

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

noun a dried leaf used to ceremonially wrap kava root

Example: see more on Youtube

Tanna fruit dove

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

Scientific name: Ptulinopus tannensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Ghost Ant

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

Scientific name: Tapinoma melanocephalum via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

Sabre squirrelfish

Example: Photo by Andy A. Lewis / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Sargocentron spiniferum via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Sabre squirrelfish

Example: Photo by Andy A. Lewis / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Sargocentron spiniferum 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: Martial Wahe

kind of plantain, a medium sized plantain, is ca. 6” long with green and yellow color on peel

Example: Eaten ripe

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

n fumarole: an opening in a planet’s crust, often in areas surrounding volcanoes, which emits steam and gases such as carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen chloride, and hydrogen sulfide.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5105)

Example: Stem used for sawn timber.

Scientific name: Virola surinamensis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[naturena] n. epiphyte growing in dense forest, along ridge. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3023)

Example: Ornamental: After one week of being sun-dried, men will place this plant in their arm band (“Tikinapuai”) during katom ceremonies.

Scientific name: Huperzia phlegmaria, 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. creeping herb with white flowers and red-orange fleshy fruit. (collection: Laurence Ramon #333)

Scientific name: Geophila repens, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. forest with big trees, growing closely together

Speaker: Martial Wahe

canoe parts: bailer

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. mimosa (locally also called Christmas Tree)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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. liana growing into the canopy of dense forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3046)

Example: Agricultural: When it is time to harvest the first crop of yam (~ April 1st), the 1st yam (’Nuk’) is put inside the hole from where it was harvested with one or two green leaves of this plant.

Scientific name: Oxera lehuntei, Speaker: Martial Wahe

beginning

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my thigh

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. white kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

heart

Speaker: Martial Wahe

canoe parts: outrigger spar, boom

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. dragon plum (Dracontomela vitiense)

(Bislama) nakatambol

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Marr’s Fusilier, Twinstripe Fusilier

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

Scientific name: Pterocaesio marri via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

name of a traditional road linking villages in South-East Tanna

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of banyan tree with large leaves and fruit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

season of the year when yams are growing, before yam harvest (Oct. through March)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

sweat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bird trap of woven vines; woven bird or fish trap

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bird basket snare

Speaker: Martial Wahe

barracuda

Speaker: Martial Wahe

soursop fruit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Chameleon Parrotfish

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

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

Three-stripe fusilier

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

Scientific name: Pterocaesio trilineata via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my fingernail

Speaker: Martial wahe

kind of crab that lives in dirty water

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[pukar] n. pig

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I climb a mountain

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my tooth

Speaker: Martial wahe

something not straight

(Bislama) kruket

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable banana sprout, sucker

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

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: Emmanuel Maasi

kind of orchid

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. glow, shine

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Kuni’s Nudibranch

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

Scientific name: Goniobranchus kuniei via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Willan’s Chromodoris

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

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

Coi’s Goniobranchus

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

Scientific name: Goniobranchus coi via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

n. footprint

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n month name (archaic, corresponding to November)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my right foot

Speaker: Martial wahe

Bigeye barracuda

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

Scientific name: Sphyraena forsteri via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Pickhandle barracuda

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

Scientific name: Sphyraena jello via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

cloth

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