Nafe (Kwamera)

v intr suckle, nurse

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr splatter, scatter, spread, disperse

Speaker: Martial wahe

v grasp, keep, retain, hold onto (as property), be faithful to (as a person)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. cry; 2. pity

Speaker: Martial wahe

v spread, spread out

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. stir (as with a spoon), crank; 2. swing one’s arms (as in a nupu dance)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr slide (as land), cave in

Speaker: Wahe Martial

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

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v make twine, twirl between fingers

Speaker: Wahe Martial

catch the hen

Speaker: Martial wahe

put in order

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alone

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v I eat

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v I watch the cows

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I pick the fruit tree of all the fruit

(Bislama) mi pikimap fuit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kapuapu] n. green salamander

Speaker: Martial Wahe

stone wall

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Deep-bodied silver-biddy

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

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

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5143)

Example: Use this plant to stop the rain, take 4 tips of the plant’s branch and place them in a cross formation, with the tips pointing N, S, W, E, wash them in sea water, and then call for the rain to stop. Hang these tips in a tree with rope for five days. Stem used to weave roof rafter to attach coconut fronds to stick. Young men hunting in bush with slingshots, when run out of stones, use these young fruits to hunt birds.

Scientific name: Meryta neoebudica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

[karwarwar] thunder

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n pebble

Speaker: Martial Wahe

belt, lavalava, traditional tapa belt which holds up penis wrappers

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. species of liana

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Piper austrocaledonicum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Ranongga White Eye

Scientific name: Zosterops splendidus, 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

Painted sweetlips (male)

Example: Photo by Dr. Dwayne Meadows / NOAA, License: Public Domain via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Diagramma pictum via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. red pepper, chili pepper

(Bislama) pima

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of wild yam

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5041)

Example: Flower attracts flying fox--hunters know this. Nut is edible, eat green, split fruit to obtain it. Raw, can also fry it in oil and dry in sun, keep 1-2 week to eat. This is an important food for the cyclone season. People prepare it when they know the cyclone is coming (emergency food).

Scientific name: Barringtonia racemosa, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5165)

Scientific name: Sterculia banksiana, Speaker: Martial Wahe

beginning

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of impromptu basket made of fern leaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of sugarcane

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n pumice

Speaker: Martial wahe

n larva

Speaker: Martial wahe

[kwarwisiwir] n. epiphyte growing in dense forest. Flowers yellow-orange to bright orange. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3047)

Example: Ornamental: Flowers are used to decorate houses.

Scientific name: Dendrobium, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Asian House Gecko

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

Scientific name: Hemidactylus frenatus via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

n my brain

Speaker: Martial wahe

upraised coral

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n barn owl (Tyto alba)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n horsefly

Speaker: Martial Wahe

mythological pygmy

Speaker: Martial Wahe

soldier fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

lizard

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Rough triggerfish, spotted oceanic triggerfish, oceanic triggerfish

Example: Photo by Ross Robertson / Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific online information system, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Canthidermis maculata via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nakɨr] n. terrestrial fern, 1 to 1.5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3027)

Example: Food: Young leaves are eaten cooked.

Scientific name: Ptisana smithii, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[nakwanumɨn] rock earth oven

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Pacific yellowtail emperor

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

Scientific name: Lethrinus atkinsoni via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut development stage 4

Example: falls down, rats eat it, used to feed pigs and chickens

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. fruit (in general)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. herb to 2-3 m tall in secondary forest clearing, flowers white with yellow-red corolla. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4724)

Example: this plant is used to make the head lei, Kuanari, to welcome visitors. It is also used as an ornamental around local houses.

Scientific name: Alpinia speciosa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Whitesands language

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[napre:rɨp] n. terrestrial herb, 0.5 to 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3028)

Example: Ecological: This plant, which grows near streams, is known to hold water during the dry season. If the plant is harvested, then it is known that the stream will not continue to run. Thus, precaution is taken to keep this plant in good health.

Scientific name: Elatostema macrophyllum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of breadfruit, produces a very long stem, the highest of any breadfruit, and then forms fruits when it becomes a very tall tree

Example: The wood is no good for making canoes as it is too soft

Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. tree; false nutmeg

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Myristica fatua, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree used for house posts

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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: Emmanuel Maasi

n. flowering tree

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Syzygium malaccense, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. canoe seat

Speaker: Jean Eskar

[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

kind of coconut, has the largest fruit of any coconut and the fruit is more oblong in shape

Example: The fiber from this variety (from the sheath base) is used for kastom ceremonies to cover kava when the young boys are coming out from their circumcision houses. This fiber is also wrapped around the middle of a bow to give it strength and help prevent it from cracking. The fiber can also be used to make a sleeping hammock as it is strong and clean

Scientific name: Cocos nucifera, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5081)

Scientific name: Cyperus, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. canoe oar, paddle

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2975)

Example: Animal Feed: The whole plant is fed to pigs to keep them fat and healthy. It is referred to as “pig medecine” and is given once per week.

Scientific name: Cyrtandra obovata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nme̤hu] n. tree growing along ridge track in disturbed forest, next to garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2979)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood.

Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. trunk of tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. very well branched tree, 6-8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3054)

Example: When this tree grows with straight stems it is used for house posts

Scientific name: Weinmannia denhami, Speaker: Martial Wahe

bow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Vila kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of kava with variegated leaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree, with edible green fruit with sweet milky white flesh, collected wild and eaten on Tanna

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable fruit, offspring

Speaker: Martial Wahe

small fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

wrasse (general name)

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of liana

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n navel (belly button)

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

Great Eggfly

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

Scientific name: Hypolimnas bolina via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n rudder (of boat)

Speaker: Martial wahe

Three-stripe fusilier

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

Scientific name: Pterocaesio trilineata via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

my young brother

Speaker: Wahe Martial

dung beetle

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3155)

Example: To treat constipation, squeeze a handful of leaves into a half cup of room temperature water, and 10 minutes later the bowel will move. It is said to taste nasty.

Scientific name: Clerodendrum inerme, Speaker: Martial Wahe

egg white

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. glow, shine

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut lorikeet

Speaker: 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

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5132)

Example: Flower for decorating things like at marriage, church, opening of new building like dispensary. Ancient people, when needed water, take stem, mash 4-6 pieces and squeeze into coconut shell and drink it. So squeeze the stems together after mashing them along their entire length with wood post. This can be used to collect water today when a person is in the forest and thirsty. Leaves wrap banana laplap. Put in saucepan boil 20 minutes, toss out water, take leaf off and eat laplap. Leaf folded not tied. People say its native to Vanuatu

Scientific name: Heliconia, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. inalienable skin, husk, covering, wrapping, shell, bark; empty shell

Speaker: Martial Wahe

type of traditional dance

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[turawasi] n. you (two) are smoking

Speaker: Jean Eskar

snapper fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

whale species

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

kind of tick

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I planted yam (only yam we can use this word ’yakawi’ that mean planted)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe