Nafe (Kwamera)

v carry piggyback

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr see

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v 1. give, give out, distribute; 2. purchase, buy something with money

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v stand (implies more than one person)

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v intr dive (as in the sea), skin dive

Speaker: Wahe Martial

snow

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adj. thirsty

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adj. slippery

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adj. old

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n anchor (of boat)

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v. go away! (imeprative)

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can you squeeze me or massage me

(Bislama) tra skwisim mi.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. to kill

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n harbor, port

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for the ( hern him...)

(Bislama) fakem

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v I eat manioc and taro fiji

(Bislama) mi kakae manioc mo taro fiji

Speaker: Martial Wahe

day

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fan-tailed cuckoo

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adj. distant, far

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n. a type of fungus that grows on trees, can be fried and eaten

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5109)

Example: To treat strong fever or flu, boil one handful of stem and leaves in 1 liter of water for 5 minutes. Drink this liquid warm, one cup a day for two days.

Scientific name: Mimosa pudica, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. coconut leaf basket

Speaker: Jean Eskar

kind of sugarcane

Speaker: Martial Wahe

shelled coconut

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Pacific Imperial Pigeon

Example: Photo by Jake Osborne, License: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Ducula pacifica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of basket woven with young coconut leaves.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my anus

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n social moiety

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Camouflage grouper (deep sea)

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

Scientific name: Epinephelus polyphekadion 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

Leopard hind, leopard grouper (deep sea)

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

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

string game (cat’s cradle)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n kind of shellfish

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n vent in Yasur crater

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5166)

Example: For the kastom ceremonies, this can provide the face paint color yellow. Cut open the ripe fruit and paint directly with this. Prior to artificial colors, people used this for yellow and Bixa orellana for red to paint faces and skin.

Scientific name: Dendrobium, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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

Example: Good for eating

Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. orange (fruit)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of shellfish

Scientific name: Trochidae sp.?, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n slingshot (Bislama?)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n spark (of fire)

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coconut development stage 2

Example: Drinking nut (with soft meat and effervescent water)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n canoe-shaped kava bowl

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n hail

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n. tree with green sweet-smelling flowers

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Pisonia grandis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. coconut

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5130)

Example: This is male variety used to build the foundation of the house, to make the timbers for the floor (joist) and put Veitchia arecina (MB 4707) strips on top. Also used for crossbeams for roof of house. Planted in village to provide shade.

Scientific name: Ficus glandifera, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. epiphyte; prominent ridge on abaxial surface of costa. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2614)

Example: 1. Fowl sometimes lay their eggs in the center of these ferns.

Scientific name: Asplenium australasicum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

animal

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kind of small, white spider

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n. tree, small; Vanuatu Wild Fig

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Ficus granatum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5071)

Example: Stem used for stick for Toka dance, due to it’s "hook" shape. . Axe handles and bows are made from this tree, very hard wood.

Scientific name: Croton insularis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

wind direction: east wind

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[natuwan] n. large tree, 10-14 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3124)

Example: The wood of this plant smells bad. It is locally called a type of "stink wood." When young children get circumsized in kastom ways, to change the leaves for their bandage, take off the bark of this stem, take the inside part and scrape it--mix a handful of the scrapings with grated coconut, put it together in a leaf, put it on the fire, heat it, when the coconut is browned, squeeze it together to get the "milk" that is yellow in color. When young children swim in saltwater to dry the cut from the circumcision, squeeze this on that area to help heal it.

Scientific name: Dysoxylum amooroides, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5072)

Example: House posts, rafters, good for building in Tanna. Scrape stem in cup and squeeze with water into a glass to give someone with heavy menstrual bleeding. 1 stem to fill a cup, mix with water, 1 liter /day for 7 days. Shark causes bleeding, maybe the person ate too much shark. This will solve that. This plant is called "medicine of the shark".

Scientific name: Melicope, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

big food festival

(Bislama) bigfala kakae

Speaker: Martial Wahe

argument

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. poison tree, can be used as medicine, or to kill a person

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3079)

Example: Used to treat pain. When a baby has an injection in the hospital, such as a vaccine, people take 1 handful of leaves, boil in a small amount of water to concentrate the resulting "juice" that comes out of the leaves, and put this fluid on the site of the pain, the injection, covering it with a leaf for 5-10 minutes, 2-3x daily until the baby stops crying.

Scientific name: Hibiscus tiliaceus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of cassava, produces small roots but the plant yields in 3 months after planting

Scientific name: Manihot esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5032)

Example: To treat anemia, known as low blood, take a double handful of leaves, squeeze into 1 cup water, and drink 1 cup daily 5 days. Leaves also fed to pigs to help them grow faster.

Scientific name: Acalypha grandis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5168)

Example: When a person becomes the chief, he embodies this tree, as this tree is considered the chief of all plants and always helps the community.

Scientific name: Ficus glandifera, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. vine climbing up ficus wasa tree to a height of 5 m above ground, growing in open forest heavily impacted by cyclone. flowers purplish-blue with white throat. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3242)

Example: When women go to the garden and have a backpack or basket, they tie it up with this vine--the vine makes an excellent rope overall. When a person catches a bird, climb a tree and put sap from this vine in its eye to blind him so he does not fly away. Apply this to small chicks in their nest. Birds then will grow to eating size and not fly away. When children have an ear infection that yields pus, chew the young leaves of this plant and spit into their ear to stop the pus that is coming out. If a person wants to drink from a pool of dirty water, put the vine in it to help purify the water.

Scientific name: Ipomoea acuminata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5094)

Example: Leaves gathered to feed pigs.

Scientific name: Ipomoea indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. epiphyte on dead tree in open area at edge of forest and garden. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3138)

Example: Secret medicine--not to discuss

Scientific name: Scyphularia pycnocarpa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of taro, might be another genus of “taro”. It has a special stone that is specific to this variety

Example: Roasted or boiled for eating

Scientific name: Xanthosoma sagittifolium or Alocacia macrorrhizos, Speaker: Johnson Noar

coconut stage, large sprout

Speaker: Martial Wahe

his heart

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Dark-Banded Fusilier, Neon Fusilier

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

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

n. inalienable leaves (usually indicates plurality): plants, plantation, trees, etc.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

spider web

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chest

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beach

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n. kind of tree (bark used for tapa cloth)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree (Pometia pinnata)

(Bislama) nantao

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. axe

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brother

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. house post outside (

(Bislama) pos

Speaker: Jean Eskar

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Lined surgeonfish

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

Scientific name: Acanthurus lineatus via FishBase

n parrotfish (general)

(Bislama) napoleon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[posokoni] lightning that stuns or kills fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my left hand

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n weather magic (spells or rituals intended to influence the weather)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. 1. firefly, (according to Lindstrom 1986, 2. phosphorescent sea algae or fungus)

Speaker: 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

sawfish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. small flying fox

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3227)

Example: Unspecified, secret medicinal use.

Scientific name: Claoxylon fallax, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n a type of lobster: Caledonian mitten lobster, a.k.a. slipper lobster (Parribacus caledonicus)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Sleek unicornfish (deep sea)

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

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

galoshes

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Bluefin trevally (male); powerful fish, with the power of a young cow

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

Scientific name: Caranx melampygus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial wahe

kind of yam, has white flesh, soft and sweet, with a very large tuber, and is easy to grow

Example: If it grows in good conditions, the tubers are so large that it takes two people to carry it on a pole

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

Cinnabar goatfish

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

Scientific name: Parupeneus heptacanthus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe