Nafe (Kwamera)

v. sweep, clear away garden debris

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v sit on, sit astride (as on a horse)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v var. of -akwai(akwai)

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr stop raining, clear

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v explode (as a volcano), pound (as the surf), break

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v 1. call out, cry out, sound, bark, neigh, ring; 2. cry, weep

Speaker: Martial wahe

v rinse one’s face, pour water over one’s head

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v swing, oscillate

Speaker: Wahe Martial

snow

Speaker: Martial wahe

adj. slippery

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cut my penis( circumsision)

Speaker: Martial wahe

for the ( hern him...)

(Bislama) fakem

Speaker: Martial Wahe

lady finger bananas

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I paddle a canoe

(Bislama) mi badel lo kawenu

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I dig yam

(Bislama) dikim yam

Speaker: Martial Wahe

turtle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

mullet

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. love

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Malabar blood snapper, saddletail snapper, large-mouthed nannygai

(Bislama) Red Snapa

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

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

Slender silver-biddy

Example: Photo by John E. Randall, License: CC BY-NC 3.0

Scientific name: Gerres oblongus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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: Emmanuel Maasi

n. interior house cross post

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n. kind of taro

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Ranongga White Eye

Scientific name: Zosterops splendidus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

skull

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n crab (fresh water)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

wooden spool for fishing line

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Squaretail coralgrouper (deep sea)

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

Scientific name: Plectropomus areolatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Two-striped sweetlips, giant sweetlips (male)

Example: Photo by Ross D. Robertson / Shorefishes of the Neotropics, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

n. copra

(Bislama) kopra

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

copra

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Blue sea chub, snubnose chub, topsail drummer

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

Scientific name: Kyphosus cinerascens via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

pearl shell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n piglet

Speaker: Martial wahe

egg of chicken

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. pandanus fruit

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

coconut husking stave set in ground

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Tripletail wrasse

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

Scientific name: Cheilinus trilobatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n waning gibbous (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

Violet squirrelfish

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

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

Mackinlay’s Cuckoo-Dove

Example: Photo by David Cook Wildlife Photography / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Scientific name: Macropygia mackinlayi, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[na̤:nɨn] n. well branched tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3086)

Example: The stems of this plant are one of the best firewoods; use the embers to light a person’s tobacco pipe. People know that when this plant has ripe fruit, it is time to hunt the flying fox near this tree.

Scientific name: Ficus cf. adenosperma, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

house fish or cave fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n moon crater

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of yam

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Ringtail surgeonfish

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

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

your eye

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5156)

Example: This is female type. MJB 5068 is male type. When person has diarrhea with blood (dysentry) take a double handful of leaves and mash them in 2 liter water, boil, drink warm 1 cup 3x day until the condition goes away. Stem used for roofing- attac hes to the rafters so thatching and leaves can be attached.

Scientific name: Polyscias schmidii, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. kind of tree with edible inflorescence

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of fern

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n sea current

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5066)

Example: Stem used for sawn timber. Eat the nut inside the large fruit. To do this, peel skin off nut and eat raw.

Scientific name: Allophylus cobbe, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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. ladder

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n. medicinal leaves applied to circumcision wounds

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nəfkafa:i] n. liana growing on trunk of hedycarya dorstenioides, in dense forest along ridge. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3009)

Example: Animal Feed: The green leaves of this plant are used to feed pigs. Hunting: The inner part of the long dry rhizome is woven to create a pidgeon trap.

Scientific name: Epipremnum pinnatum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5016)

Example: When a person is sick put two of these large leaves together and use them to "carry" a person to the medicine specialist. If the sick person is a man, six people line up and put many leaves on the palm of their interwoven hands and then they carry the sick person while saying a special incantation. This is a very old practice. If a person has a stomach pain take 2 of the white inflorescences with the right hand and give them to the person to eat, twice a day (in the morning and eveing) for 4 days. The pain will go away. When kava is chewed to prepare the beverage, the roots are sp

Scientific name: Macropiper latifolium, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

large grass skirt plant

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. flowering plant

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of thick grass

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. orange tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. root fibre

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nima purupuo] n. chief’s round house

Speaker: Jean Eskar

Mountain beetwen yatukwei and High hill

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5082)

Example: Wood is very hard and good for making canoe. Wood is good to build house (house posts). Takes seeds from dried fruit, break them open, boil in water and collect oil that rises to the top. This oil used as massage oil. Rub oil from dried seeds in hair to kill lice.

Scientific name: Calophyllum, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5094)

Example: Leaves gathered to feed pigs.

Scientific name: Ipomoea indica, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

[nukwuk] n. epiphyte growing on a main branch of a glochidion tree, 2-3 m above ground (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3073)

Example: People use this to treat skin sores, by boiling a handful of leaves in a small amount of water and washing the sores with this. Wash 2-3x daily until the sore is better. It may take 3-4 weeks to heal the sore.

Scientific name: Pyrrosia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. terrestrial; leaves 1.0-1.5 m long. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2626)

Scientific name: Hypolepis elegans, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my thigh

Speaker: Martial wahe

plant (to be identified, grown in gardens, said to originate from New Caledonia)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Kwamera language

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my gums (of mouth)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. kind of tree (var. of kƗrha)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

boat

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

White-freckled surgeonfish

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

Scientific name: Acanthurus maculiceps via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Fluted Giant Clam

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

Scientific name: Tridacna squamosa via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

traditional stone axe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

his brother

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree that has seed pods (to be identified)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of fish: spiny puffer?

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n weather magic (spells or rituals intended to influence the weather)

Speaker: Martial wahe

I climb a mountain

Speaker: Martial Wahe

my dad

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my ear canal

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of plantain, a roasting plantain with a curved shape

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

Yellowtail barracuda

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

Scientific name: Sphyraena obtusata via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5152)

Example: Leaf used to cover boils on skin. Mash leaf slightly and cover bol. Leaf pulls out liquid from boil. Use this for 3 days, changing the leaf 2x daily. Young plants (branch) for toothache to reduce pain. Boil in water and wash painful area. Use as needed until pain subsides. Also can collect insects in dried stems and use these to feed chickens. (Hymenoptera).

Scientific name: Homalanthus nutans, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. tree, 6 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Claoxylon fallax, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[tuwa:i] n. tree, 10 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3006)

Example: Construction: The timber of this plant is used as a hardwood for any part of a house. It is also used to make dugout canoes. Tool: The wood of this plant is used to create the study part of a bow. It is noted, however, that there are better woods for this purpose.

Scientific name: Dysoxylum aneityense, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 15 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Dysoxylum aneityensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n house component, eaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n a type of sea worm

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of fish trap

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of tick

Speaker: Martial Wahe

window in traditional house (Bislama)

Speaker: Martial Wahe