Nafe (Kwamera)

v. hold (food) in a leaf (as do circumcised boys while in seclusion), shield so as not to pollute

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v var. of -akwai(akwai)

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Martial wahe

v suck on, savor (as candy), keep in one’s mouth

Speaker: Martial wahe

v sneeze

Speaker: Martial wahe

v tr eat, consume

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. refuse, not want, choose not to, leave, stop (doing), not care, give up; 2. with ra, denotes state of sufficiency: plenty, enough

Speaker: Martial wahe

v dir sense (hear, fell, touch, taste)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr dive (as in the sea), skin dive

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v stare, glare at

Speaker: Wahe Martial

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

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v carry on one’s back, carry on a truck bed

Speaker: Wahe Martial

adj. woody, tough, fibrous (as a yam or taro)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. transitive eat sugarcane

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial wahe

v swing, oscillate

Speaker: Wahe Martial

cut my penis( circumsision)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. to peel skin or husk

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of cassava. The skin of the root of this variety is red

Scientific name: Manihot esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. well branched tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3091)

Example: The leaf can be used to wrap food for carrying, for example, wrapping up crabs.

Scientific name: Dillenia biflora, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. devil

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of sweet potato with dark flesh

Speaker: Martial Wahe

num three

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my ass (buttocks)

Speaker: Martial wahe

t.o. Jumping Spider

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

Scientific name: Athamas whitmeei via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5110)

Example: Leaves fed to pig. Women string the seeds to make necklaces to sell. If the libido of a male is too strong ("bamboo is too strong"), mix juice from leaves and mix with 1/2 L water and drink 2 cups 1 day.

Scientific name: Leucaena leucocephala, Speaker: Johnson Noar

kind of seashell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant; box bean or St. Thomas’ bean

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Entada phaseoloides, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[karwapwe̤j] n. liana growing into canopy of myristica fatua tree, growing in forest along kwataren kastom road. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3093)

Example: The stems of this plant are heated, the outer bark peeled off and the stems are used as a rope.

Scientific name: Stephania japonica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5120)

Example: When parents go away to a feast or garden, children take a pile of soil 12 in. diameter, put this flower on top, surround wth some ashes and then hide in the house to wait to see if the dwarf spirit appears (Karwase Haruase). Sometimes the spirit will come and then scare the children. Ancestors used these spirits and games to teach children to stay together and not wander alone. As the dwarf spirit will take you.

Scientific name: Volkameria inermis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

kind of sugarcane

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n type of woven mat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Pustulose Wart Slug

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

Scientific name: Phyllidiella pustulosa via inaturalist.org, 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

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5099)

Example: Fruits edible and sold in market to earn money.

Scientific name: Dracontomelon vitiense, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. kind of tree; its loss of leaves signifies the beginning of the cool season

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. parasitic epiphyte growing on roots of trees

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Balanophora fungosa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5120)

Example: When parents go away to a feast or garden, children take a pile of soil 12 in. diameter, put this flower on top, surround wth some ashes and then hide in the house to wait to see if the dwarf spirit appears (Karwase Haruase). Sometimes the spirit will come and then scare the children. Ancestors used these spirits and games to teach children to stay together and not wander alone. As the dwarf spirit will take you.

Scientific name: Volkameria inermis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

spear becket

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of seaweed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable sprout, shoot, small branch

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n full moon (moon phase)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Shadowfin soldierfish

Example: Photo by Anne Hoggett / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

rabbit fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

worm

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree; bishop wood

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Bischofia javanica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

dawn

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n plateau

Speaker: Martial wahe

Yellow-striped sweetlips (male)

Example: Photo by Graham Edgar / Reef Life Survey. License: CC BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

sleep, sleepiness

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. stage 1 in the development of coconuts, very small, not ready to eat or for any other use

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[neri] n. herb to 1.5 m tall, flowers white (collection: Michael J. Balick #4722)

Example: This plant is used to welcome people by weaving the leaves and flowers into a head lei, locally known as a Kuanari. If there are no flowers, people weave the leaves and use these to welcome visitors. This species is becoming an invasive in the area.

Scientific name: Hedychium coronarium, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5039)

Example: This is the female type of 5037. Leaf is used to cover the top ridge of a roof on a house. Lasts 5 or more years. Women use the leaf for grass skirts. Take leaves, twist, tie in a line, dry in sun and then use to make skirt. Leaves have a nice fragrance.

Scientific name: Alpinia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n White Sands language, spoken in East Tanna

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

during fight

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[naruwakiri] n. herb, 2.5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3082)

Example: To make a strap to hold the ornamental fiber "Nisei" (Plunkett et al #3077) on a person’s arm. Dry the stem, remove the fibers, and weakve into a strap. There is a legend that is told about this plant, concerning a rat and a fox. The rat and fox stole a banana from the Devil’s garden. The Devil caught the fox and told him not to come back. The rat said "lets go to the garden" and the fox said no. The rat said "go take these leaves, and tie the leaves with coconut fiber--and he told the fox to lie down and the rat sewed the leaves on the fox. ...

Scientific name: Donax canniformis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. herb, 2.5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3082)

Example: To make a strap to hold the ornamental fiber "Nisei" (Plunkett et al #3077) on a person’s arm. Dry the stem, remove the fibers, and weakve into a strap. There is a legend that is told about this plant, concerning a rat and a fox. The rat and fox stole a banana from the Devil’s garden. The Devil caught the fox and told him not to come back. The rat said "lets go to the garden" and teh fox said no. The rat said "go take these leaves, and tie the leaves with coconut fiber--and he told the fox to lie down and the rat sewed the leaaves on the fox. So, the rat an

Scientific name: Donax canniformis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5111)

Example: Use leaf to line earth oven on top of stones to protect lap lap from burning. If you’re building a bush house in the forest, children can sleep on these leaves in a temporary house.

Scientific name: Microsorum grossum, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5105)

Example: Stem used for sawn timber.

Scientific name: Virola surinamensis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

advice

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5049)

Example: Used for house posts, rafters, and other construction-- very good for building in Tanna. Scrape the stem and put the pieces into a cup. Squeeze these pieces through with water, pour into a glass, and give to someone with heavy menstrual bleeding. 1 stem used to fill a cup, and drink one liter a day forone week. It is thought that shark meat causes bleeding. This will solve that. This plant is called "medicine of the shark".

Scientific name: Melicope, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. tree to 6 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Morinda citrifoli, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. heavy (big) rain

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n volcanic ash plain

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

life

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[hipi:na] n. well branched tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3149)

Example: When young boys are circumcized, the leaf is mashed and rubbed on the skin of the boys who are sleeping in the nakamal--and mix with coconut oil to help hold it on the body. Said to help the person have better, smoother skin.

Scientific name: Murraya, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5102)

Example: Cook young leaves in water for 5 min and then eat.

Scientific name: Polyscias fruticosa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5031)

Example: For Kastom ceremonies, use this plant to decorate the roots of Kava that is given to a chief. Also used in women’s grass skirt for kastom dance. When young girls are getting their first period (menstruation), they wear a grass skirt from this plant to be fragrant (in order to cover any blood smell).

Scientific name: Euodia hortensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

arrow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nukune nai] n. tree stump

Speaker: Jean Eskar

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 my shoulder

Speaker: Martial wahe

happiness

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. black kava (stems are black color)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

canoe parts: outrigger spar, boom

Speaker: Martial Wahe

book

Speaker: Martial Wahe

name of a star constellation

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sandalwood

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. traditional medicine, cure for illness caused by Mwatiktiki (culture hero responsible for yam growth)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Dark-Banded Fusilier, Neon Fusilier

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

Scientific name: Pterocaesio tile via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree used for making house posts

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree with small green fruit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

darkness

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bamboo (used to refer to several introduced species)

(Bislama) pampu

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of fish with black color

Scientific name: clown unicorn fish, Speaker: Martial Wahe

South (cardinal direction)

Speaker: Martial wahe

Yellow and blueback fusilier, blue and yellow fusilier (deep sea)

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

Scientific name: Caesio teres via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

culture hero name

Speaker: Martial Wahe

my mum, my mother

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. mother (my)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable kava sprout, transplanted from one garden to another

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bee

Speaker: Martial Wahe

a type of white fungus that grows on trees

Speaker: Martial Wahe

fruit, edible green

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of crab that lives in the black rock or in the coastal area

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Gray unicornfish (deep sea)

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

Scientific name: Naso caesius via FishBase, 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