Nafe (Kwamera)

v hold on to, grasp, keep, retain, hoard (guests, goods, an idea)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v drip, leak

Speaker: Martial wahe

v nod (as one’s head)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v use protective magic

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. husk, skin (as a coconut)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v intr fall, drop (numerous objects)

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v 1. sit, sit down; 2. be at, exist at

Speaker: Martial wahe

kill dog

Speaker: Martial wahe

seawards

Speaker: Martial Wahe

go sit down

Speaker: Martial wahe

kind of banana, a small banana; very sweet

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

[iarumanu] chief

Speaker: Martial Wahe

chief

Speaker: Martial Wahe

foreign, imported, from the east

Speaker: Martial Wahe

boy

Speaker: Martial Wahe

sleeping mat of woven pandanus

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. rake

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, growing in disturbed forest/garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3102)

Example: People use this plant for firewood

Scientific name: Hedycarya dorstenioides, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sapling, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4235)

Example: 1. When in flower, it is s a good time to hunt swefa, a type of sea mollusc.

Scientific name: Hedycarya dorstenioides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

general term for fungus

Speaker: Martial Wahe

longtail silver-biddy

Example: Photo by Rainer Kretzberg, License: CC BY 3.0

Scientific name: Gerres longirostris via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

num two

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n name of a local spirit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of sugarcane

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. coconut which has been shelled leaving intact its meat

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Satin Flycatcher

Example: Photo by David Cook, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Myiagra cyanoleuca, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5065)

Example: Tricks the rat, sees seeds from bottom, but when climbs herb, can’t see it--so name refers to tricking the rat. If a person drinks too much kava over many years, boil 5-6 whole plant for 15 minutes in water (1.5 L) and put in pot, drink 3 cups, 1x / day for 3 days to detoxify the effects of kava. A person who has drunk too much kava over a long time feels it in the body--weak, hard to wake early, appetite is low, body feels heavy.

Scientific name: Phyllanthus imbricatus, Speaker: Johnson Noar

her brother

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n mirror

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5153)

Example: To make tattoo, draw design and then take youngest emerging stem and rub along design. Follow design and it will burn a design in your skin. Birds eat fruits as do fruit bats.

Scientific name: Alchornea scandens, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5045)

Example: If a person comes to your garden and tries to spoil it with a special leaf by rubbing it on his foot and walking around or rubbbing it on a stick and tossing it into a garden, take 8 branches of this species (MB 5045) and put 2 in each corner of a new garden. If branches are placed when the garden is planted, it will not be spoiled by this black magic. To stop having children chew 4 pieces of young stem 2 in. long. 2 times daily for one week and the woman will no longer have children.

Scientific name: Desmodium incanum, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Threepot squirrelfish

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

Scientific name: Sargocentron cornutum via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5136)

Example: To tie the wall of a house, strip off leaves and tie fresh to house.

Scientific name: Flagellaria indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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

kind of yam, produces tubers with white flesh. It is fast-growing and produces a large bunch of tubers

Example: Very sweet and sticks to the teeth when eaten

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

num seven

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. liana growing into canopy of dysoxylum, in open (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3034)

Scientific name: Lygodium reticulatum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

ankle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of taro, has reddish-white flesh

Example: Good for cooking and making lap-lap

Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

grass skirt plant, sea soaked

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. plant with sticky leaves and seed pods

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n parrot finch

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. banana flower (lit. banana cock)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. bird trap (pyramidal structure made of wild cane)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. local tea leaves

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n bend in the road

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Dark capped parrotfish

Example: Photo by Andrew J. Green / Reef Life Survey, License: CC BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

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 waxing crescent (moon phase)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n moonset

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Bluelined squirrelfish, Tahitian squirrelfish

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

Scientific name: Sargocentron tiere via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

minute

Speaker: Martial wahe

rainbow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Titan triggerfish

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

Scientific name: Balistoides viridescens via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

plant material used to bind cyclone house posts

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n star constellation

Speaker: Martial wahe

Pacific yellowtail emperor

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

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

fog

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 3-4 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Ficus adenosperma, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

my eyes

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n fire

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of plant with small purple flowers

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sparsely branched shrub, 1.5-2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3083)

Example: This plant is used as an ornamental, and is important to plant on graves. The color signifies a grave.

Scientific name: Codiaeum variegatum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5146)

Example: Stem used to make bow. Stem for ax handle.

Scientific name: Allophylus cobbe, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3248)

Example: When people chew the kava root for processing, they spit it on this leaf. It is sort of a magic leaf for picking up a person--put 4 leaves together, 2 per side and then lift the person up.

Scientific name: Macropiper latifolium, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

[nakəskəs apran] n. small fern growing on decaying log in dense forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3121)

Scientific name: Asplenium cf. caudatum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. primary forest

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. tree to 30 m

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Casuarina eqisetifolia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nijer] n. tree to 30 m, dbh 2 m (collection: Michael J. Balick #4738)

Example: Wood is strong and good to make houses with, particuarly house posts. Also good for firewood.

Scientific name: Casuarina equisetifolia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. small offshoot tuber

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 8 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Fagraea berteroana, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub or bushy tree; parasol leaf tree

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Macaranga tannarius, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Example: Leaves gathered to feed pigs.

Scientific name: Ipomoea indica, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. rubber tree, bark used in tapa production

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

n. fruit (general)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3039)

Example: Fuel: Dried wood of this plant is used as firewood. Not: This plant is considered the mountain form. There is another form, Nowaripen, found near the sea.

Scientific name: Ixora aneityensis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

[njuri ne nipuka] n. herb growing on roadside along coast road. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3169)

Example: This plant is used by dogs who have an upset stomach. They go to eat this grass and then their stomachs feel better. Pigs feed on this grass.

Scientific name: Eleusine indica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

spiny sea urchin

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree (Cerbera odollam) (with poisonous fruit with white sap inside tree and fruit)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nəkwa̤j reje] n. small tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3132), used to make fishing spears, and used to make small house posts that support thatch roof

Example: Straight stem used for spear shaft

Scientific name: Tapeinosperma, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe, Martial Wahe

n. inalienable fruit, offspring

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Globehead parrotfish

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

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

Lesson’s thicklip, stiped sweetlips

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

Scientific name: Plectorhinchus lessonii via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Longspine emperor

Example: Photo by Museum of New Zealand / Te Papa Tongarewa, License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Lethrinus genivittatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. herb growing along stream in open forest heavily impacted by cyclone. flowers blue. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3254)

Example: Used in an unspecified way for pregnant women to ensure the baby to grow well. Used in an unspecified way to control the weather.

Scientific name: Commelina, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. kind of wild mandarin, orange color

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. plant (to be identified)

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

exchange relation, exchange road

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Thank you

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. house central post

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n cricket

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5132)

Example: Flower for decorating things like at marriage, church, opening of new building like dispensary. Ancient people, when needed water, take stem, mash 4-6 pieces and squeeze into coconut shell and drink it. So squeeze the stems together after mashing them along their entire length with wood post. This can be used to collect water today when a person is in the forest and thirsty. Leaves wrap banana laplap. Put in saucepan boil 20 minutes, toss out water, take leaf off and eat laplap. Leaf folded not tied. People say its native to Vanuatu

Scientific name: Heliconia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n slug species, snail species

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n island

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cockroach

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