Nafe (Kwamera)

v. unwrap (as a tuber pudding), open (as an earth oven)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

crow (as a rooster), cluck (as a hen)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v 1. play with, make faces at, coo at (a child); 2. welcome, greet; 3. ask something of, beg something from

Speaker: Martial wahe

v touch, nudge, rub, scratch, brush against

Speaker: Martial wahe

v kick, stub one’s foot

Speaker: Martial wahe

v spread to dry (in the sun)

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr var. of akwɨpahar

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v. 1. dig (as with a spade), 2. sprout

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. to slap

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v. look down! (imperative)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Bislama

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of turtle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Aneityum

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. crab

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n pollen (of flowers)

Speaker: Martial wahe

a small mushroom, grows only on trees, edible when fried, not pliable, difficult to break by hand

Speaker: Martial Wahe

he, her, him have a headache

(Bislama) hed blo hem i so.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Mangrove red snapper, mangrove jack

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

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

n name of a culture hero

Speaker: Martial Wahe

a type of brown fungus that grows on trees

Example: Young specimen of brown fungus. Photo by K. David Harrison, Oct. 2016

kind of yam, produces tubers with red, hard, sweet flesh

Example: Used for kastom ceremonies as it has a large bundle of tubers

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

num four

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5101)

Example: To treat ciguatera disease (fish toxin), boil a double handful of the male flower, in 2 liter water, 10-15 min. Drink all at once warm. Drink one pot daily for 2 days. Leaves and flowers to feed pigs. Fruit edible. Slice the green fruit and boil it to make soup or fry it in oil and make a salad. Ripe fruit to make jam.

Scientific name: Carica papaya, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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

Foursaddle grouper (deep sea)

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

Scientific name: Epinephelus spilotoceps via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree. mature green fruit with an abundant white latex, edible (collection: Laurence Ramon #321)

Scientific name: Garcinia pseudoguttifera, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Five-lined snapper

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

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

n. canarium nut fruit (variant 2)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. coconut leaf for brooms

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[krawasi] n. we (two) are smoking

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n my testicle

Speaker: Martial wahe

my elder sisiter’s son

Speaker: Wahe Martial

n. kind of taro

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

bead

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. angled roof support posts in traditional house

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. plant with sticky leaves and seed pods

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kwan kuman] n. shrub, 1-1.5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3130)

Example: A person would never use a food knife when cutting this tree as it will make that person hungry, which is also the name of the tree. So people do not like to cut this tree.

Scientific name: Psychotria milnei, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. inalienable small side tubers off a main root tuber; small yam tubers

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n house component (poles under thatching)

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

rudder fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of shellfish

Scientific name: Strombiadae sp.?, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. a type of sugarcane, very thin and long, yellow or light green color, very sweet, planted in gardens

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Lattice soldierfish, violet soldierfish

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

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

Sabre squirrelfish

Example: Photo by Andy A. Lewis / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

kind of insect, wood boring

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[naŋema:fu] n. tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3018)

Example: Construction: The timber of this plant is used as a wood to construct the posts of a house. It is also used to fashion paddles as an accessory to a canoe.

Scientific name: Turrillia lutea, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of plantain from Fiji

Example: Used for cooking

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

names

(Bislama) nem blo hem

Speaker: Martial Wahe

spirit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

two days ago

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5081)

Scientific name: Cyperus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of fern

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

advice

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. plant; giant fern

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Angiopteris evecta, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[narwaperien] lightning

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

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

Scientific name: Allophylus cobbe, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5106)

Example: If someone has swollen legs or arms, like from bruises or boils, crush leaves and rub on the swollen area twice a day for 1 week, or until sores disappear. For anemia, take a double handful of leaves, squeeze into 1 L water, and drink one bottle three day for 2 weeks.

Scientific name: Plectranthus scutellarioides, Speaker: Johnson Noar

[kəfe:rəŋ] n. epiphyte growing on cyathea trunk, growing along garden trail. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3066)

Example: This plant is used to reduce the pain of toothache. Take the stem and peel it, remove the bark and place the bark against a sore tooth. Keep it is place, until the person feels better. Can use this treatment 2-3 times. It is said to "take the pain away." The tooth may rot away naturally, but this is good for the pain that accompanies toothache. The dried fruits and seeds of the plant can be mixed with pig food, such as coconut, and when the female pigs eat it, they will not have piglets. This is said to be used when a person has too many pigs.

Scientific name: Cyrtandra cymosa, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. shrub, 2.5-3 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Evodia hortensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[nuas] island cabbage

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. trunk of tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. epiphyte on syzygium myriadenum, outside of transect. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2608)

Example: 1. A locally revered kestrel, known as tikurkak, makes its bed with the fronds of this fern.

Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. acacia tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of taro

Example: Good for roasting in an earth oven and has a very nice taste

Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

[nurap] n. tree to 7 m tall, dbh 49 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4733)

Example: Wood from this tree is good for making house posts, as it is very strong. The wood is considered as excellent firewood. To restore energy when a person is tired, chew the leaf, swallow the juice, and spit out the leaf--it will make the person feel better.

Scientific name: Syzygium malaccense, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. decorative plant (Crinum sp.), Bislama: white lily. A kind of wild taro, eaten.

(Bislama) nuviavia

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut stage, large sprout

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of Tahitian chestnut

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 earthquake

(Bislama) hedkwek

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of sweet potato

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. the time after harvest when yam gardens are gradually consumed and replanted

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of banyan tree, bark used for tapa cloth

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Pea Blue

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

Scientific name: Lampides boeticus via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

traditional stone axe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Rivulated parrotfish, surf parrotfish

Example: Photo by Rick Stuart-Smith / Reef Life Survey, License: CC BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

Yellowbarred Parrotfish

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

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

Grass emperor

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

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

n. house post outside (

(Bislama) pos

Speaker: Jean Eskar

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

[posokoni] lightning that stuns or kills fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. mother (my)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

afternoon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

egg white

Speaker: Martial Wahe

honey

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut development stage 1

Example: Very small, not ready to eat or for any other use

Speaker: Martial Wahe

call someone; laughter

(Bislama) singaot

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kava type

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Emperor Nautilus

Example: via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Nautilus pompilius via inaturalist.org, 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

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: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree (best wood for making bows)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

plant with large banana-like leaves used to wrap for baking laplap, taro, fish (Heliconia sp.)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

phrase the sea is calm

Speaker: Martial Wahe

louse

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of tick

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I am fishing with a net

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