Nafe (Kwamera)

v snack on, eat (coconut wrapped in fig leaves, for example)

Speaker: Martial wahe

beautiful, good

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v intr smack lips (as to call a dog)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr 1. explore, go off into the unknown, search; 2. be confused, worried

Speaker: Martial wahe

v hold it

Speaker: Martial wahe

drown

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v intr intersect, cross, lie across

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v lead by the arm, support by the arm, hold up someone

Speaker: Wahe Martial

adj. old

Speaker: Martial Wahe

you listen

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. intransitive walk downhill

Speaker: Martial Wahe

morning star

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I cut the tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[iarumanu] chief

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. devil

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Erromango

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Dory snapper

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

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

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5109)

Example: To treat strong fever or flu, boil one handful of stem and leaves in 1 liter of water for 5 minutes. Drink this liquid warm, one cup a day for two days.

Scientific name: Mimosa pudica, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. shrub. fruits and flowers directly on the stem or short inflorences. mature fruits white (about 1,5 cm l). Leaves with short petioles (about 1 to 3 cm) (collection: Laurence Ramon #331)

Scientific name: Cyrtandra sp2, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

brown

Speaker: Martial wahe

n house component (vertical poles supporting thatching)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cylindrical throwing club, throwing stick

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. flying fox flying

Speaker: Martial Wahe

wooden spool for fishing line

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Harlequin Sweetlips, Many-Spotted Sweetlips, Spotted Sweetlips (female)

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

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

kava type

Speaker: Martial Wahe

club, with star shaped head

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Brassy chub, lowfin drummer

Example: Photo by Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Kyphosus vaigiensis via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Humpnose big-eye bream

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

Scientific name: Monotaxis grandoculis via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. liana growing on coconuts and ficus trees

Example: Useful rope for Tanna’s peoples, for tightening a traditional house, canoe and other uses. Photo taken at Mount Simian, south Tanna, Vanuatu, by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Smilax Vitiensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5036)

Example: Young plants for roof rafters, larger plants used for house posts. Women who get pregnant with someone else besides husband use this to abort. Boil a double handful of scraped stem in water and drink 1 cup four times daily to abort. Fruits are edible. Cut it open and eat what’s inside. see more on Youtube

Scientific name: Finschia chloroxantha, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. kind of vine

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n barnacle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

lung fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. banana flower (lit. banana cock)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Purple-winged Mantis

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

Scientific name: Tenodera australasiae via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Tanna fruit dove

Example: Photo by Doug Janson / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Scientific name: Ptulinopus tannensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Rainbow runner

(Bislama) Rainbow Runner

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

Scientific name: Elagatis bipinnulata via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

White-spotted spinefoot, white-spotted rabbitfish (salt water)

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

Scientific name: Siganus canaliculatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. book

Speaker: Martial Wahe

my eyes

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, small; Vanuatu Wild Fig

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Ficus granatum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my waist

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 for one 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: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5144)

Example: Sawn timber. Very hard wood. Fruit bats enjoy eating from this tree. Hunters know this and will go there to hunt.

Scientific name: Syzygium nomoa, Speaker: Johnson Noar

[nafare rota] n. tree, 5 m tall with 3 branches (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3097)

Example: The leaves are woven to make mats, hats, baskets, fans. When pollen is released from the flower it is said that fish in the sea are healthy. The roots are used for tying things, pound pieces of root and strip them off and weave into rope. A person can cut a root in a way that makes a brush to paint grass skirts and other objects. This rope can also be used to tie various leaves that are used to cover lap-lap. The leaves can be harvested, the fiber removed and woven into rope.

Scientific name: Pandanus macrocarpus, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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: Emmanuel Maasi

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

Scientific name: Asplenium cf. caudatum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

club

Speaker: Martial Wahe

blood

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[ne̤wo] n. tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3079)

Example: Used to treat pain. When a baby has an injection in the hospital, such as a vaccine, people take 1 handful of leaves, boil in a small amount of water to concentrate the resulting "juice" that comes out of the leaves, and put this fluid on the site of the pain, the injection, covering it with a leaf for 5-10 minutes, 2-3x daily until the baby stops crying.

Scientific name: Hibiscus tiliaceus, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

large grass skirt plant

Speaker: Martial Wahe

black newou plant

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of yam, edible, white color, used for frying, also in laplap

Speaker: Martial Wahe

canoe parts: bailer

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. low-branching tree; Alexandrian laurel, balltree, beach calophyllum

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Calophyllum inophyllum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of taro, has dark red flesh. It might be a different genus

Example: Used to make lap-lap

Scientific name: Xanthosoma sagittifolium or Alocacia macrorrhizos, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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 #5087)

Example: Very poison sap and leaves. When in fruit the fruit bat eat this and can’t fly well so fall down and can be harvested.

Scientific name: Semecarpus tannaensis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

your hair

Speaker: Martial Wahe

sunlight

Speaker: Martial Wahe

beard

Speaker: Martial Wahe

beginning

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. stage 7 of coconut development, sprouting coconut.

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n. mistletoe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. my hair

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

kind of fish trap

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my body

Speaker: Martial wahe

sweat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Orange-socket surgeonfish

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

Scientific name: Acanthurus auranticavus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & 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: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

[ramasi] n. to smoke

Speaker: Jean Eskar

v. ?? s/he asks you

Speaker: Martial Wahe

chicken

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my baby teeth (deciduous teeth)

Speaker: Martial wahe

daylight

(Bislama) delaet

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of banana

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. glow, shine

Speaker: Martial Wahe

exchange relation, exchange road

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n sea urchin

Speaker: Martial Wahe

a type of white fungus that grows on trees

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Thank you

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of kava with small trunk and long roots, a special kava used in custom ceremony

Speaker: Martial Wahe

sea

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kava bowl

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. understory tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4208)

Scientific name: Schefflera neoebudica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

snapper fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of woody, flowering plant

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Cordiline fruticosa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

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

kind of stingray

Speaker: Martial Wahe

galoshes

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of plantain, a small plantain

Example: Used for cooking (boiling)

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

v. to whisper

Speaker: David Harrison