Nafe (Kwamera)

v wear a hat, cover (something)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. wear an ornament of leaves inserted into carved or woven armlets

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v call, call out to, invite

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr be sick

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr suckle, nurse

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. edge, weave a border (of a basket or mat); 2. be full (as a container of liquid), come up to the edge of a container; 3. conclude (as a discussion), reach an agreement; 4. whip, strike with a rope or stick

Speaker: Martial wahe

v tr wear around neck (as a necklace, neck ornament or tie)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v go astray, lose one’s way, walk off a trail

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v. to sprout or send up shoots

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v cut fire wood in pieces

(Bislama) spletem fire hood.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

vatu (currency unit)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. sand fly, 2. sand crab

Speaker: Martial Wahe

mullet

Speaker: Martial Wahe

tabu place, taboo place

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial wahe

n buttocks

Speaker: Martial wahe

kind of stick bug

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[karat] carrot

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. small taro roots, 2. garden (metaphorically)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. vine, to 4 m off forest floor (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3260)

Example: This is a famine food. Cut the vine, clean the outside of it, remove bark, put the vines on a hot stone oven, cover with leaves (unspecified) and one hour later the vine is edible.

Scientific name: Entada phaseoloides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. shrub. fruits and flowers directly on the stem or short inflorences. mature fruits white (about 1,5 cm l). Leaves with short petioles (about 1 to 3 cm) (collection: Laurence Ramon #331)

Scientific name: Cyrtandra sp2, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

thunder

Speaker: Martial Wahe

earth oven stones

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of taro

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Cardinal Honeyeater

Scientific name: Myzomela cardinalis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial wahe

White-Edged Lyretail

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

Scientific name: Variola albimarginata via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. kind of wild yam

Speaker: Martial Wahe

num ten ("five five")

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Variable Goshawk

Example: Photo by olanuxer / Flickr, License: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Accipiter hiogaster, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n snapper fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

plant seed pods, produce a bright red substance the can be used to color hair red [plant to be identified]

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. kind of yam

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. red pepper, hot pepper

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n house component (ridge pole)

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. a secondary sprout or shoot (of a plant)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Black Imperial Pigeon

Example: Illustration by Joseph Smit / Wikimedia Commons, License: Public domain via es.wikipedia.org

Scientific name: Ducula melanochroa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Yellow Crazy Ant

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

Scientific name: Anoplolepis gracilipes via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Shoulderbar soldierfish

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

Scientific name: Myripristis kuntee via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

adj ripe (for example, a pineapple or banana)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

butterfly fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my rib

Speaker: Martial wahe

plant (to be identified)

(Bislama) nalalas

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

garden

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

n shadow

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. variety of coconut with short trunk

Speaker: Martial Wahe

leaf worn on head

Speaker: Martial Wahe

wooden forks

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 5-6 m h (collection: Laurence Ramon #318)

Scientific name: Ficus granatum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

daylight, sunshine

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5091)

Example: When the fruit is ripe, it is put in a pot with water. Fill half of a large bag (2 liters) with fruit, add this to 2 liters of water and macerate the fruit in the water. Drink 2 cups/day of this extract, morning and afternoon, for one week to make skin oily when it is too dry. This is necessary, for example, when a person drinks too much kava and thir skin dries out. Eat young fruits as a protection from someone who wants to do you harm. It is said that the fruit has 10 eyes, and can watch after you. Cover fish with leaves to cook in a fire. Crush and boil pieces of the stem and leaves and

Scientific name: Morinda citrifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5088)

Example: Leaf used to thatch house. Chew base of stem as sugar cane - it’s sweet.

Scientific name: Miscanthus sinensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5042)

Example: Leaf used to feed pigs--when looking for dried coconuts, gather this. The seeds are edible put them directly on fire and cook for 3-5 minutes.

Scientific name: Canavalia rosea, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. fern used as chicken feed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree used for house posts

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5142)

Example: Children collect young leaves to decorate their exercise books in school. If a person does not want to get too drunk on kava, they will chew 3 leaves before drinking, and spit out remains while swallowing the juice. This plant has the power to reduce effects of Kava.

Scientific name: Adiantum diaphanum, Speaker: Johnson Noar

fishing spear, three pronged

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree, leaves used for penis wrapper (Related to nepek tree)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 8 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Fagraea berteroana, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Malay apple, (Syzygium malaccensis)

(Bislama) nakafika

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. acacia tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my shoulder

Speaker: Martial wahe

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: Johnson Noar

coconut leaf sheath fibre

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable friut stem (as of an orange, mango, pumpkin, etc.)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. Two day kava (one stays intoxicated for two days)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of laplap made from bananas and coconut

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n moustache

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5096)

Example: Fruits used to feed hens to increase fertility -- mix seed with dry coconut and give to hen to increase eggs.

Scientific name: Phyllanthus ciccoides, Speaker: Johnson Noar

semen

Speaker: Martial Wahe

chest

Speaker: Martial Wahe

hole, burrow, cave

Speaker: Martial Wahe

West (cardinal direction)

Speaker: Martial wahe

Monarch

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

Scientific name: Danaus plexippus via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

Dusky parrotfish, swarthy parrotfish

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

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

Greensnout parrotfish

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

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

Quoy’s parrotfish

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

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

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5026)

Example: Used to wipe yam for good luck when planting. Take leaves and wipe the yam tuber. Once this tuber is planted, it will grow better due to the luck blessing.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my ear canal

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. plant (to be identified)

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

tabu, taboo

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sea

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. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5116)

Example: If a person gets cut while on reef, take leaves and burn them to an ash. Put this powder on the sore for one day to dry and heal cut. For constipation, take 1 handful bark, mash it, put with coconut water (one coconut’s worth), and drink a cup once. Don’t do other activites. This will clear bowel within a day. Very powerful.

Scientific name: Excoecaria agallocha, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5152)

Example: Leaf used to cover boils on skin. Mash leaf slightly and cover boil. Leaf pulls out liquid from boil. Use this for 3 days, changing the leaf 2x daily. Young plants (branch) for toothache to reduce pain. Boil in water and wash painful area. Use as needed until pain subsides. Also can collect insects in dried stems and use these to feed chickens. (Hymenoptera).

Scientific name: Homalanthus nutans, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Mountain

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable sprout, shoot (of a plant which sends up multiple sprouts such as kava, banana, bamboo, etc.)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[tuprapwej] n. understory tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3143)

Example: The wood of this tree makes good house posts and is also used as firewood

Scientific name: Claoxylon, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of tree used for making house posts, has white fruit that birds like to eat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

louse

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Ribbontail stingray

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

Scientific name: Taeniura lymma via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & 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

I’m cold

(Bislama) mi kolkol

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I love my wife

(Bislama) mi laekem woman blo mi.

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: Martial Wahe

Indian goatfish

Example: Photo by Lyle Vail / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

v. to bite off or pull off with the teeth, as sugarcane or coconut husks

Speaker: Martial Wahe