Nafe (Kwamera)

v rub one’s backside against, wipe one’s ass

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v gossip, tell on, betray, tell tales behind one’s back, inform about

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Martial wahe

v shoot (a gun) together; throw (rock or stick) simultaneously

Speaker: Martial wahe

v/a 1. drown, sink; 2. deep, under water

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr suckle, nurse

Speaker: Martial wahe

v fish (in a group with nets)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v/a 1. rest; 2. intoxicated, drunk

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. slide, crawl on one’s backside, crab-walk; 2. sit (as a baby who cannot yet walk); see -ate

Speaker: Wahe Martial

splet dry coconut intwo pieces

Speaker: Martial wahe

lady finger bananas

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

name of language spoken in South-west Tanna

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I read a book

(Bislama) mi ridim book

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. (collection: Michael J. Balick #5107)

Example: For Asthma, take one handful of shaved stem with 1/2 L water. Boil in a pot 5-10 minutes, a drink 1 warm cup two times a day for one week.

Scientific name: Chamaesyce, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. kind of coconut with reddish fibre

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

crayfish

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

kind of breadfruit, produces small round fruits with small projections (described as small needles) on the outside of the fruit. The tree is very tall

Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

brown

Speaker: Martial wahe

n my eyelid

Speaker: Martial wahe

n my spine

Speaker: Martial wahe

a children’s game

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cow

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 #5161)

Example: Leaf mixed with Malaxis sp. (MJB 5154) to treat broken bone. Conjunctivitis (pink eye) drip juice from the stem into the eye 2x day 3 days. Fertility: To cleanse womb squeeze on stem into bottle with water and drink 1L a day for four days to get pregnant.

Scientific name: Canavalia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Triton’s Trumpet

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

Scientific name: Charonia tritonis via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

grouper (deep sea)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Harlequin sweetlips, many-spotted sweetlips

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

Pacific Robin

Example: Photo by Paul Balfe / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Scientific name: Petroica multicolor septentrionalis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5034)

Example: Stems can be used as a broom when tied in bunch. When a young woman does not want to have children, she can chew these leaves for one week, spit out fibers and swallow the leaf residue. If she chews four branches of leaves per treatment, two times a day, for one week, she will stay barren for 5-6 years.

Scientific name: Sida cordifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

brain coral

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. woman’s breast

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5115)

Example: Hardwood, for carving. For building house posts. If wood is dry when it is wet outside, this wood will light and burn faster than any other wood (due to high sap content).

Scientific name: Guettarda speciosa, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5085)

Example: Sawn timber. Open ripe seed with stone or hammer, eat nut inside.

Scientific name: Terminalia catappa, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. inalienable the remnant of the planted taro form which a new tuber has developed (at the base of the harvested root)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of sugarcane, small, yellow in color

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. dry coconut leaf wall

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Brassy trevally (female) (reef fish)

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

Scientific name: Caranx papuensis via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

squirrel fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Marbled parrotfish, seagrass parrortfish

Example: Photo Philippe Bourjon / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Leptoscarus vaigiensis via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Vermiculated spinefoot, vermiculate rabbitfish

Example: Photo by Rick Winterbottom / FishWise Professional, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Siganus vermiculatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

ant

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[nakur] n. sparsely branched tree, 5-6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3088)

Example: This plant is used as a medicine for throat infections. Take 2, 2" pieces of the leaf, chew and swallow the juice, spit out the fibers, 3x daily, for as long as the throat hurts.

Scientific name: Polyscias scutellaria, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kinds of yam. There are sub-varieties of this that produce tubers with either red or white flesh

Example: Only used for making lap-lap for kastom ceremonies

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. 1. kind of tree, 2. small plant with red flowers (var. of nanas), the sap is dangerous it can cause a rash

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5154)

Example: To treat broken bones combine two handfuls of Commelina diffusa and 2 handfuls of this whole Orchid. Then take half of that and rub on broken bone area (e.g. leg). The Kastom doctor will then make a cut with a sharp piece of bamboo along break. The bone is then wrapped with the leaf of this orchid, then take the pother half of the mixture, mash in water 1.5 liter, and give person to drink. This treatment will help join bone back together.

Scientific name: Malaxis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

[napwejsen] n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3140)

Example: The wood from this tree makes strong house posts as well as timber for benches and can be used as firewood. If you don’t have soap, you can take the leaf, mash it up and wash with it--it produces a foam that cleans. Use for washing yourself, for example. If this tree has fruits, then people know that it is a good time to plant sweet potatoes and other crops.

Scientific name: Alphitonia zizyphoides, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. clouds

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n lava flow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Whitesands language

Speaker: Martial Wahe

wild animal

Speaker: Martial Wahe

wooden forks

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[næskoʊ] n. tree, 2-3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3099)

Example: The wood of this plant is used for an important "kastom" dance known as Toka. The stem is said to have a curve in it. Sam noted that the people dancing get something in return, such as a pig or kava.

Scientific name: Croton insularis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. terrestrial herb, 0.8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3068)

Example: People use this to make a broom, by cutting the roots and tying a bundle of stems together. The leaves fall off naturally and this is used as a broom.

Scientific name: Stachytarpheta jamaicensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my vein

Speaker: Martial wahe

[nawes] 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: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. plant (to be identified)

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Hibiscus dilicieus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

wind

Speaker: Martial Wahe

excrement

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. leaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Tahitian chestnut

Speaker: Martial Wahe

tribe name

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. casuarina

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. shrub, 2 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Cyrtandra obovata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5158)

Example: When a person is stung by a jellyfish, take 5-6 leaves and whip the sore for 5-10 minutes and this will reduce the soreness of the wound.

Scientific name: Ipomoea pes-caprae, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5033)

Example: Young leaves edible, boil with water or cook in coconut milk. Cook fruit in boiling water, then cook in coconut milk. Cook fruits for 6-10 minutes. He was taught this by his grandparents who showed him how to eat wild plants; his grandfather wasa historically significant person in the Port Resolution area, especially in reference to medicine.

Scientific name: Ficus wassa, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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: Emmanuel Maasi

n. 1. kind of tree, 2. bark container used to wrap baked food

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. small tree, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4231)

Example: 1. Goats and cattle eat the leaves. 2. Wood is used to carve blunt-end arrow heads to hunt pidgeons.

Scientific name: Geniostoma rupestre, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my left foot

Speaker: Martial wahe

Nuwekur village, near Iatukwei

Speaker: Martial Wahe

reef passage, channel

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. white kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kava shoot with a double sprout

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of laplap made from bananas and coconut

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

word, speech, talking

Speaker: Martial Wahe

fish net

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5145)

Example: Cut branches, dry in the sun until the leaves fall out,and then tie branches together to make broom. Stem used for canoe outrigger.

Scientific name: Murraya paniculata, Speaker: Johnson Noar

storm

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Tripletail wrasse (male)

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

Scientific name: Cheilinus trilobatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

barracuda

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of green and reddish coconut

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Ramie Moth

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

Scientific name: Arcte coerula via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

t.o Gossamer-winged Butterfly

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

Scientific name: Luthrodes cleotas via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

Red parrotfish

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

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

grass hopper

quantity of five coconuts

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n voice

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. small house posts that support thatch

Speaker: Martial Wahe

frigate bird?

Speaker: Martial Wahe

yam mound

Speaker: Martial Wahe

sea snake black and white

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4246)

Example: 1. The inner bark is used to prepared a medicine to relieve upset stomachs. First, the inner bark is scratched until a handful is produced. Then the bark is squeezed with water until a small glass is filled. The decoction is consumed to relive upset stomachs. 2. The leaves are used to fashion a poultice to heal sores and boils.

Scientific name: Pipturus argenteus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of fish trap

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Green jobfish

(Bislama) Salmon Fis

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

Scientific name: Aprion virescens via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I love my wife

(Bislama) mi laekem woman blo mi.

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