Nafe (Kwamera)

v pray, communicate with the supernatural

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr call fowls, cluck

Speaker: Martial wahe

v shake, blow about (as the wind)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v rub one’s backside against, wipe one’s ass

Speaker: Martial wahe

v light up

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr boil, toss (as the sea), fizz (as soda), bubble

Speaker: Martial wahe

v hold it

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. sprout (as kava, banana, sugarcane)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v. stick magically treated wild cane around garden plants

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v 1. open (as a door), open up (as a trunk or other closed object); 2. clear or empty out (as dirt from a hole), reveal

Speaker: Martial wahe

v rely on, be sure of, expect that someone will do, depend on, believe in (as a supernatural being)

Speaker: Wahe Martial

chew

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v look down or shut our eyes we pray

Speaker: Martial Wahe

grave

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I pray at the church

(Bislama) mi pray lo churche aos

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I am fishing with a canoe or boat...

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I pick a coconut

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Lenakel

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[jare̤mə̤] n. herb, growing along open garden path. Flowers yellow. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3084)

Example: This plant is used to treat diarrhea in a baby 1-6 months old. The mother takes 4, 1" pieces and chews them, spitting it into the baby’s mouth 2x daily, once in the morning and once in the afternoon until the diarrhea stops. Sometimes if the baby is sick from a spirit such as a yam, taro or sea spirit, the mother takes 2, 1" pieces of stem and 2, 1" pieces of Acalypha wilkesiana petiole (Plunkett et.al. #3081) and chews the two species together and spits on the affected baby, telling the spirit to "go away and leave the baby alone.

Scientific name: Bidens pilosa, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. a kind of sweet potato

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cousin (mother’s brother’s child)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. English

Speaker: Martial Wahe

adj. distant, far

Speaker: Martial Wahe

all right

Speaker: Martial Wahe

num three

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. rake

Speaker: Jean Eskar

vine use to tie houseposts

Speaker: Martial Wahe

my brother in law, my brother-in-law

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

section of house thatching

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Areolate grouper

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

Scientific name: Epinephelus areolatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Harlequin Sweetlips, Many-Spotted Sweetlips, Spotted Sweetlips (female)

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

Scientific name: Plectorhinchus chaetodonoides via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

kind of banana

Speaker: Martial Wahe

num five

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my heel (of foot)

Speaker: Martial wahe

[kwankəsikəp] n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2988)

Example: Clothing: The bark of this plant is peeled and sundried (~2 days) to be woven into Nambas.

Scientific name: Wikstroemia indica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of bird trape ( triangle shape)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

baby food

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. semi-inalienable strip of coconut frond used as a rope

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n comet

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. paper

Speaker: Jean Eskar

Tricolour parrotfish

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

Scientific name: Scarus tricolor via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. moon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Milkfish

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

Scientific name: Chanos chanos via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of pandanus

Example: The green leaves are used to weave mats, baskets and hats. The stem is used for making houseposts and also burned as firewood. The ripe fruits are cut open and the seeds are removed and eaten—they taste like coconut and are eaten fresh

Scientific name: Pandanus tectorius, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Yellowmargin triggerfish

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

Scientific name: Pseudobalistes flavimarginatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Ringtail surgeonfish

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

Scientific name: Acanthurus blochii via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n my eye

Speaker: Martial wahe

n lava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. fruit (in general)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n planet

Speaker: Martial wahe

n cadaver

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

wind direction: east wind

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5118)

Example: Young stems are used to support the roof of ther house. Use yellow sap for glue. Fruits and flowers eaten by flying fox. Same effect as poison tree, they do not fly correctly, often falling and can be harvested to eat.

Scientific name: Melicope latifolia, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. creeping herb with white flowers and red-orange fleshy fruit. (collection: Laurence Ramon #333)

Scientific name: Geophila repens, Speaker: Martial Wahe

people, men

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut leaf sheath

Speaker: Martial Wahe

excrement

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. well branched understory tree, growing in dense cloud forest. fruits yellow-green to red. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4228)

Example: 1. Ripe fruits are edible. 2. Young leaves are eaten raw.

Scientific name: Ficus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. orange tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. canoe oar, paddle

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n. rubber tree, bark used in tapa production

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4213)

Example: 1. Ripe fruits are used by children in a game to imitate the devil. 2. It is considered tapu to make firewood from this tree. It tis thought the yam stems will dry and the fruits will be sub-par as a result.

Scientific name: Melastoma malabathricum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Red Jungle Fowl (female)

Example: Photo by Lip Kee, License: CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Gallus gallus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

sunlight

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5033)

Example: Young leaves edible, boil with water or cook in coconut milk. Cook fruit in boiling water, then cook in coconut milk. Cook fruits for 6-10 minutes. He was taught this by his grandparents who showed him how to eat wild plants; his grandfather wasa historically significant person in the Port Resolution area, especially in reference to medicine.

Scientific name: Ficus wassa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. coconut spathe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nuːri] n. grass, small plants

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable fruit stalk and fruit (of coconut, Barringtonia edulis)

Scientific name: Barringtonia edulis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of kava with crinkled leaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

fish net

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. kind of tree, 2. bent staff or stick used by toka dancers

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bird basket snare

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n wind direction (NNW)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Great Eggfly

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

Scientific name: Hypolimnas bolina 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

Orange-Socket Surgeonfish, Ringtail Surgeonfish

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

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

beer

Speaker: Martial Wahe

culture hero name

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[ʰreja] chicken

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. father (my)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. green onions (English shallot)

(Bislama) sarat

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. pathway, footpath

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n. a type of banana, often fermented to make banana beer

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5124)

Example: Used for the construction of many things including walls for houses and benches.

Scientific name: Bambusa vulgaris, Speaker: Johnson Noar

small bat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Mountain

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. branched tree, growing next to Ianarawia ("high hill") settlement (village of Philip Wahe). (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3153)

Example: The leaves of this plant are used by women to make grass skirts. Slice the leaf lengthwise, fold or roll them up, put to dry in sun until it becomes white. At that point it is used to make the grass skirt.

Scientific name: Dracaena sp., Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

place name: the highest mountain on Tanna Island

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I feel pain in my belly

(Bislama) bel blo mi so

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable 1. classifier word for supporting aerial roots (as of a banyan, pandanus), 2. thorn

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Elongate unicornfish, slender unicornfish (deep sea)

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

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

wind direction: south-east wind

Speaker: Martial Wahe

untight robe

Speaker: Martial wahe

Blue trevally (male)

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

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

Yellowtail Scad (female)

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

Scientific name: Atule mate via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

I’m cold

(Bislama) mi kolkol

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Blue fly

Speaker: Martial Wahe