Nafe (Kwamera)

v wear a hat, cover (something)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr hoot, screech, call (as a bat), creak

Speaker: Martial wahe

v mount, reach the summit of a hill, come out on top, be on top

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr 1. explode, blow up, erupt (as a volcano); 2. become angry, furious

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr splatter, scatter, spread, disperse

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v spread, spread out

Speaker: Martial wahe

v/a greasy, oily, shiny and sleek with hair pomade, grease, oil

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr twitch, jerk about (as a dying fish), slither (as a snake), flop about

Speaker: Martial wahe

v mix together (foods), eat two foods at one

Speaker: Wahe Martial

feed pig

Speaker: Martial wahe

look up and see a plan

(Bislama) tra look antap by you look wan plen.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n anchor (of boat)

Speaker: Martial wahe

go dive

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v go away

(Bislama) go lo we

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Port Vila

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v I scratch taro

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v I chew kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. sand fly, 2. sand crab

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[iarumanu] chief

Speaker: Martial Wahe

phrase where you going?

(Bislama) you go wea

Speaker: Martial Wahe

today

Speaker: Martial Wahe

sleeping mat of woven pandanus

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. coconut development stage 3

Example: Overripe, can be put into seawater for up to 3 months to ferment, then drunk for intoxication

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3226)

Example: This is a "calendar plant," tied to the sea. When it flowers, it is time to harvest sea urchins. The dry wood is used to mke a fire when a person has no matches.

Scientific name: Hedycarya dorstenioides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

kind of sea snail

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of crabe

Speaker: Martial wahe

kind of mushroom

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Whipfin silver-biddy

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

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

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5164)

Example: Fresh vine is collected and used to tie parts of the house together. Can drink water from stem. Fruits-seed used as necklace especially for kastom dance.

Scientific name: Entada phaseoloides, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. fungus type

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, Oct. 2016

Speaker: Martial Wahe

middle vent in Iasur crater

Speaker: Martial Wahe

whirlpool, whirlwind

Speaker: Martial Wahe

flying fox

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5117)

Example: The flower stick is cut at both ends and used as a trumpet by the children. The root of this type is poisonous; other types are used as food.

Scientific name: Tacca leontopetaloides, Speaker: Johnson Noar

type of laplap

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree used for fence posts

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. banyan tree bow string

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Scientific name: Hanslia ormocarpoides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4233)

Example: 1. The inner skin of the stem is used to weave grass skirts and nambas. 2. Pidgeons eat the fruits.

Scientific name: Wikstroemia indica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Scientific name: Lygodium reticulatum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. kind of taro

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n parrot finch

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sling made of pandanus, used to shoot rocks for killing birds

Speaker: Martial Wahe

green stone, magical stone

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n. penis

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n. kind of edible legume

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. kind of luminous lichen, fungus, mushroom, 2. sea sponge, 3. soft corals, 4. comb and wattle of a fowl

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. local tea leaves

Speaker: Jean Eskar

gathering

(Bislama) meeting

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my eye

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. tree, 6 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Alphitonia zizyphoides, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Harry hotlips (female)

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

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

n. fruit (in general)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Whitesands language

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n volcanic clay used for body painting/adornment

Speaker: Martial 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. sparsely branched tree, 15 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3232)

Example: Timber. Birds are known to eat this fruit so people can hunt near the tree. Unspecified medicine.

Scientific name: Myristica fatua, Speaker: Martial Wahe

advice

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5067)

Example: Stem to make house posts. Put fruits in with sweet potato when planting to enable the sweet potato to yield a good crop.

Scientific name: Macaranga, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. small, sparsely branched shrub (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3033)

Example: Ceremonial: During kava preparation, chewed kava roots are placed on the green leaves of this plant before extracting. One of many leaves used for this purpose.

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. breadfruit

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

dry season

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. vine, growing in disturbed forest/garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3103)

Example: Before there were many root crops such as taro and cassava, people would use the roots of this plant as a food, after roasting it in the fire. The roots are said to be very large and edible.

Scientific name: Pueraria lobata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree with stinging leaves

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. plant (to be identified)

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Hibiscus dilicieus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

plant used to make grass skirts

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sea hearse tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. copra bed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

earthquake

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n. shrub, 2 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Cyrtandra obovata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of breadfruit, has small fruits that are more oblong than round

Example: The stem of this variety is good for canoe-making as it will last for many years of use

Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

[nokwai] arrow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

water

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. epiphyte. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2620)

Scientific name: Davallia sessilifolia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. charcoal

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. trunk of tree

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. wild cane leaf stem

Speaker: Martial Wahe

digging stick

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. black kava (stems are black color)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

branched coral

Speaker: Martial Wahe

my face

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of watermelon, round, small, very sweet with small seeds (from E. Auckland)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. axe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n swordfish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

my elder brother

Speaker: Martial wahe

Orange-spotted emperor, yellowtail emperor

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

Scientific name: Lethrinus erythracanthus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & 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

Ficus sp. (kind of nukwesi)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

come down

Example: told to someone to come down

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my canine tooth

Speaker: Martial wahe

n sea urchin

Speaker: Martial Wahe

whale species

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n day after tomorrow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

wind direction from the northeast (note that Lindstrom 1986 lists this as "south wind")

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cockroach

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

Yellowfin goatfish

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

Scientific name: Mulloidichthys vanicolensis via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe