Nafe (Kwamera)

v. hold (food) in a leaf (as do circumcised boys while in seclusion), shield so as not to pollute

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v start, be surprised by something

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. make twine (by rolling on one’s leg or on one’s thigh)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v intr dead

Speaker: Martial wahe

green

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. plant (certain plants such as taro, papaya, kava, sugarcane, manioc)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v spread to dry (in the sun)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. wrestle, struggle, throw a tantrum (as a child on the ground); 2. scratch (as a hen)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr fall, drop (numerous objects)

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v succeed, win, better act or interact such that one comes out ahead (implying another loses), belittle another, be lucky

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v fill, stuff (as tobacco into a pipe), insert (as food into a bamboo section to bake)

Speaker: Martial wahe

ceremony

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. 1. to grate tubers, 2. treat with traditional medicine by spitting grated or masticated ingredients on the patient’s head

Speaker: Martial Wahe

boat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[ganhɨk] my penis

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I brushed the new garden

(Bislama) brasem new garen

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I paddle a canoe

(Bislama) mi baddle le kenou

Speaker: Martial Wahe

stonefish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

buttocks

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Common bluestripe snapper

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

Scientific name: Lutjanus kasmira via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n testicle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

digging stick, taro planting stick

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[karat] carrot

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[karwapwe̤j] n. liana growing into canopy of myristica fatua tree, growing in forest along kwataren kastom road. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3093)

Example: The stems of this plant are heated, the outer bark peeled off and the stems are used as a rope.

Scientific name: Stephania japonica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

wooden bench

Speaker: Martial Wahe

her brother

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Painted Phyllidia

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

Scientific name: Phyllidia picta via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5036)

Example: Young plants for roof rafters, larger plants used for house posts. Women who get pregnant with someone else besides husband use this to abort. Boil a double handful of scraped stem in water and drink 1 cup four times daily to abort. Fruits are edible. Cut it open and eat what’s inside.

Scientific name: Finschia chloroxantha, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of wild yam

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub (1 to 1,5 m) (collection: Laurence Ramon #322)

Scientific name: Hanslia ormocarpoides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

oval handled basket

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5070)

Example: To get strength back in your body, take a double handful of leaves in 1/2 of 1.5 l bottle, drink all at once. Children take the seeds of this plant and put them together in a ball to play with.

Scientific name: Hanslia ormocarpoides, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. tree, 6-7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3101)

Example: People use this plant as a medicine to treat bad knees. Peel the bark, take 1 handful and put it in a cup of water until the water becomes black. Drink it 3x daily as needed until the knee pain disappears and the knee heals. Children use the seeds as a glue in school work.

Scientific name: Cordia dichotoma, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5147)

Example: Ripe fruits applied to paper and used as glue.

Scientific name: Cordia dichotoma, Speaker: Johnson Noar

grass skirt plant, sea soaked

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n lava bomb

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n house component (horizontal poles holding up roof frame)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Red-bellied Fruit Dove

Scientific name: Ptilinopus greyii, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of shellfish, mother-of-pearl

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. coconut leaf roof thatching

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Jean Eskar

adj unripe (for example, a banana or pineapple)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n month name (archaic, corresponding to January)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of plantain from Fiji

Example: Used for cooking

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

[nako̤ŋhar] n. tree, 7-7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3100)

Example: This plant has an aroma, and people are said to take the leaf and squeeze it on them in a shower or while bathing with the purpose of keeping evil spirts away. In particular, this can be used when a person is doing a Toka dance, or when that person is visiting a cemetary, burying a person--to avoid having a problem with the spirits. This can also be used with Euodia hortensis (Plunkett et al. 3077) or alone.

Scientific name: Pittosporum campbellii, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Slender emperor

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

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

n. small, round wild yam

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. flesh, internal parts, meat (as of a nut or fruit)

Speaker: Jean Pascal 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 drought, lack of rain

Speaker: Martial wahe

protective magic

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. a kind of coconut with red husk and shell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. taro (Colocasia)

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Alpinia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5074)

Example: Used for food. Boil the leaves for 15-20 min, fry them, or put them in the earth oven to eat. They taste very good.

Scientific name: Microsorum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. tree, 7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3159)

Scientific name: Melicope latifolia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[næskoʊ] n. tree, 2-3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3099)

Example: The wood of this plant is used for an important "kastom" dance known as Toka. The stem is said to have a curve in it. Sam noted that the people dancing get something in return, such as a pig or kava.

Scientific name: Croton insularis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. tree, 2-3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3099)

Example: The wood of this plant is used for an important "kastom" dance known as Toka. The stem is said to have a curve in it. Sam noted that the people dancing get something in return, such as a pig or kava.

Scientific name: Croton insularis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

[nate̤hi̤j] n. well branched tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3125)

Example: Children from Tanna and throughout Vanuatu use this plant to make a slingshot. As a "medicine," when chickens are ruining your garden, if you plant this plant it will chase away the chickens.

Scientific name: Ervatamia orientalis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[nawes] n. tree to 6 m tall, dbh 40 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4740)

Example: Fruit used for local medicine. When a person is diagnosed with "cancer" in the local hospital, take a ripe fruit in a cup of water and macerate it until the smell of the fruit comes out in the water, drink every other day, 3x daily, morning noon and night. Also used for firewood.

Scientific name: Morinda citrifolia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

psetl-like stick used to mash the kava in the strainer leaves, and to observe the taboo on touching kava with the hands

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3026)

Example: Hunting: The wood of the tree is used, as the body of a spear, to hunt fishes and turtles. To fashion the spear, an appropriate length of wood is cut, debarked, heated (to straighten) and then topped with an iron point. Note: Iaruman is the name of the male form of this plant. Prane is the female form of this plant.

Scientific name: Rapanea amischocarpa, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5114)

Example: Weave bark fiber to make slings, grass skirt for ladies, hats and baskets. To do this, rett outer bark in sea for 1 week to rot everything but the fiber, take remaining fiber, dry in sun and use as a fiber for weaving.

Scientific name: Hibiscus tilliaceus, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. plant (to be identified)

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Hibiscus dilicieus, 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 my beard

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. fern, used for tying bundles of wild cane in house construction

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

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my thumb

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. kind of tree with yellow flowers and small inedible fruit that is red when ripe

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

digging stick

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. white kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

heart

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. edible root plant type

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut fibre, outer husk, coir

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

meat

Speaker: Martial wahe

kind of fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Asian Magpie Moth

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

Scientific name: Nyctemera baulus via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

n my fingernail

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. vine growing up a ficus tree, growing in open forest heavily impacted by cyclone. flowers yellow; fruits brown and fibrous. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3231)

Example: To chase away pigs that invade a person’s garden, wrap leaves of this species around a stick, hit the pig with it and the pig will not return to the garden to eat the crops.

Scientific name: Trichosanthes dieniensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

my younger brother’s wife

Speaker: Wahe Martial

Lined Surgeonfish, Bluelined Surgeonfish ~ marasaw (Port Resolution dialect)

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

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

cow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

hold or take something

Example: young people hold chew kava to drink. or old people walking with walking stick

Speaker: Martial Wahe

awareness or preaching

Example: awareness of health or church gospel

Speaker: Martial Wahe

green

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. pathway, footpath

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Jean Eskar

Fiji taro

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kava bowl

Speaker: 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

[tʰãmijen] n. small tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2984)

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

Scientific name: Pipturus argenteus, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n house component, eaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Humpback unicornfish

Example: Photo by wahe Martial

Scientific name: Naso brachycentron via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n volcanic eruption

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Finstripe goatfish

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

Scientific name: Upeneus taeniopterus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Manybar goatfish

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

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

v. to whisper

Speaker: David Harrison