Nafe (Kwamera)

v lure (as fish with magical leaves floated on the sea)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr live, stay at, exist at

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr see -aragaha

Speaker: Martial wahe

v knead, mx by hand, grope

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. give, give out, distribute; 2. purchase, buy something with money

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v intr 1. start, be suprised by; 2. transplant, dig up (as a plant), scrape out (as used tobacco from a pipe)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v overtake, bypass

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. peel, cut skins off tubers

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v cut, slice

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. flow (as water), blow, push before (as the wind); 2. feel the need to urinate or defecate

Speaker: Wahe Martial

ceremony

Speaker: Martial Wahe

take out the skin of the something like hood stemp with a knife

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. look down! (imperative)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

maggot

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I dig taro’s bed for planting

(Bislama) mi tikim hol blo taro

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I pick the fruit tree of all the fruit

(Bislama) mi pikimap fuit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

boy

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n flower stamen

Speaker: Martial wahe

old grandparents

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

honored

Example: honored God

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Scarlet Percher

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

Scientific name: Diplacodes haematodes via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n clear sky

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. small taro roots, 2. garden (metaphorically)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

power stone

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my cheek

Speaker: Martial wahe

Kawiameta moiety

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: Emmanuel Maasi

Trigger fish

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: Emmanuel Maasi

Camouflage grouper (deep sea)

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

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

Honeycomb grouper (deep sea)

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

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

Whitespotted grouper (deep sea)

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

Scientific name: Epinephelus coeruleopunctatus via FishBase, 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

Blacksaddled coralgrouper (deep sea)

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

Scientific name: Plectropomus laevis via FishBase, Speaker: 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

n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2976)

Example: No use disclosed.

Scientific name: Melastoma malabathricum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

name of a star constellation

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n eyeball

Speaker: Martial Wahe

last born child

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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. kind of fungus, brown color when old or white color when young, can be fried and eaten

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. woman’s breast

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kwanapwɨt] n. herb growing on roadside along coast road. Flowers bluish-purple. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3164)

Example: The leaves of this plant are used to treat diarrhea. Take a handful of leaves, chew them and suck out the liquid and swallow it, then spit out the fiber and all that remains in the mouth. Also known to be good as a cattle feed.

Scientific name: Desmodium canum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

baby food

Speaker: Martial Wahe

club, used for dancing

Speaker: Martial Wahe

box fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

ladder (Bislama)

(Bislama) lata

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5151)

Example: Houseposts. Straps used to tie wood to roof during thatching.

Scientific name: Avicennia marina, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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: Martial Wahe

kind of mango, the fruit of this variety has thin skin, sweet flesh; it comes from Fiji

Scientific name: Mangifera indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Pink squirrelfish

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

Scientific name: Sargocentron tiereoides via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

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

[nami̤rew] n. tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3042)

Example: Construction: The wood of this tree is strong and considered a choice wood for house construction. Fuel: The wood of this tree is used as an excellent firewood.

Scientific name: Glochidion ramiflorum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[napeɨn] n. machete marks on tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

brain coral

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my tongue

Speaker: Martial wahe

wild animal

Speaker: Martial Wahe

type of coconut leaf sheath with thick fibres used to strain kava (see nenha)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. well branched tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4249)

Example: 1. The fruits are eaten by flying foxes. 2. Dried wood are used as torches, and are considered long-lasting.

Scientific name: Ficus septica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. well branched tree, 3-4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3037)

Example: Hunting: Flying foxes are known to eat the fruit of this tree. When the bats are desired, hunters will gather near this tree. Ceremonial: During kava preparation, chewed kava roots are placed on the green leaves of this plant before extracting. Many leaves are used for this purpose. Fuel: To make a fire, dried sticks are rubbed together on a plane of wood. The friction creates smoldering ash over time, useful for ingniting dried material.

Scientific name: Ficus septica, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. epiphyte growing in dense forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2991)

Example: Hunting: Flying foxes are attracted to this plant for their flowers. As a result, hunters gather around this plant when they desire to hunt the flying fox.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. forest with big trees, growing closely together

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. palm (Metroxylon warburgii), 2. kind of spear

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

family

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. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5061)

Example: Use stem to build roof rafters. Before people had matches, this plant was used to light fires by rubbing one stem of this against another piece of the same tree.

Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n first quarter (moon phase)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. casuarina

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n the white of my eye

Speaker: Martial wahe

pond of water

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5133)

Example: Stem for house building. Young leaves are very strong and used as plates during large kastom ceremonies. Sap can be used to cover sores from flies in order to protect it. Stem good for firewood as does not give much smoke--does not bother eyes as much as other wood.

Scientific name: Macaranga tanarius, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n nipple

Speaker: Martial wahe

sunlight

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. circumcision

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of pandanus

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. two day’ kava (i.e., one stays intoxicated for two days) (English "two days")

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n boulder

Speaker: Martial wahe

cliff, escarpment edge

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of liana

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. banyan tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Yellowbanded sweetlips

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

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

middle finger

Speaker: Martial Wahe

a type of white fungus that grows on trees

Speaker: Martial Wahe

call someone; laughter

(Bislama) singaot

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. footprint

Speaker: Jean Eskar

barracuda (general name)

Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Kawakawa

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

Scientific name: Euthynnus affinis via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

kind of banana, small ladyfingers

Speaker: Martial Wahe

snail shell pointed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. foreskin

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bamboo pan flute

Example: Thomas Kahi and Sam Posen play the bamboo pan flute. see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[tuwai] n. tree, 15 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3059)

Example: The stem is used to make house posts; the young stems are used to make bows and young boys use the bows made from this tree to hunt birds and flying foxes.

Scientific name: Dysoxylum aneityense, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. plant with white trumpet-shaped flowers, nightshade?

(Bislama) tƗmpúa

Scientific name: Bislama, 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: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. kind of yam, edible, yellow or white color, from New Caledonia

Speaker: Martial Wahe

wheelbarrow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I love my mum

(Bislama) mi likem mami blo mi

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Bluespine unicornfish

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