Nafe (Kwamera)

v intr hoot, screech, call (as a bat), creak

Speaker: Martial wahe

adj. be spoiled, rotten, stink (as food)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v fish (in a group with nets)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr heal (as a sore), feel better, calm, become quiet

Speaker: Martial wahe

v spread to dry (in the sun)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v/a 1. shake (as a tree); 2. shaky, loose, slack

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. sprout (as kava, banana, sugarcane)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v drink, sip, seat (an orange)

Speaker: Martial wahe

snow

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. a type of traditional exchange ceremony

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. to slap

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cut your penis

Speaker: Martial wahe

cut his penis

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v. 1. to grate tubers, 2. treat with traditional medicine by spitting grated or masticated ingredients on the patient’s head

Speaker: Martial Wahe

go sit down

Speaker: Martial wahe

cephalopods

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. small coconut, coconut fruit bud

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Tiger Cowry

Example: via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Cypraea tigris via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

t.o Golden Silk Orb-weaver

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

Scientific name: Nephila tetragnathoides via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Moluccan snapper

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

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

n. kind of tree with edible leaves

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. basket made of a woven coconut frond

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. coconut leaf basket

Speaker: Jean Eskar

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

n. tree, 10 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3151)

Example: The bark of this tree has a strong smell, and people macerate it and use it to bath. It is said to perfume the body, particularly after hard work. People use it to cover all of their body. A piece of the bark can be put with a person’s clothing to add a nice smell.

Scientific name: Cryptocarya turbinata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

coffee beans (Bislama)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5153)

Example: To make tattoo, draw design and then take youngest emerging stem and rub along design. Follow design and it will burn a design in your skin. Birds eat fruits as do fruit bats.

Scientific name: Alchornea scandens, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Areolate grouper (deep sea)

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

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

Starspotted grouper (deep sea)

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

Scientific name: Epinephelus hexagonatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kwanjapɨp] n. weedy vine growing over boulders in dry streambed. Corolla pink turning bluish. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2794)

Scientific name: Desmodium intortum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. tree, 12-13 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3089)

Example: The nut inside of the fruit contains sap. Cut a fruit in half and stick it to a person’s arm, and then take it off, put earth on the place where the sap is, and it makes a temporary tatoo that lasts for 3-4 days. This fruit is the best flying fox food, and when the tree has ripe fruits many flying foxes go there to feed, and hunters know this. The fruits are eaten by people as well.

Scientific name: Burckella obovata, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Blubberlip snapper

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

Scientific name: Lutjanus rivulatus via FishBase, 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

n. large, well branched tree (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4245)

Example: 1. The fruits are chewed for their juice and the remainder spit out. Locals refer to this as drinking the fruit. 2. The wood of the tree can be used as a post or rafter in either western-style or traditional style homes. 3. When in flower it is considered an appropriate time to clear a garden path for planting. When in fruit, it is time to plant yams in one’s garden.

Scientific name: Garcinia pseudoguttifera, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n purple swamp hen (Porphyrio porphyrio)

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

n trail

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my brain

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bird name: kind of warbler?

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial wahe

kind of ground dove

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: Martial Wahe

Black Imperial Pigeon

Example: Illustration by Joseph Smit / Wikimedia Commons, License: Public domain via es.wikipedia.org

Scientific name: Ducula melanochroa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Spotted parrotfish (deep sea)

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

Scientific name: Cetoscarus ocellatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. homemade alcohol from kahimaregi coconut water, plus yeast, water, optionally pineapple juice, drunk on special occasions like Christmas

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nejɨk] n. herb, growing as weed in kava garden. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3148)

Example: If a tree is dying from fungal infection, this plant should be planted near one’s garden, near crops or that tree to help protect crops from that disease.

Scientific name: Plectranthus scutellarioides, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. tree; bishop wood

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Bischofia javanica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nami̤rou] n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3074)

Example: The wood is used to make house posts, it is said to be very hard. It is also burned for firewood.

Scientific name: Glochidion, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of tree, leaf used as a penis wrapper, also warmed on fire and rubbed on stomach to facilitate kava intoxication

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Midnight Snapper

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

Scientific name: Macolor macularis via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & 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

village betwen yatukwei and tapir

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5071)

Example: Stem used for stick for Toka dance, due to it’s "hook" shape. . Axe handles and bows are made from this tree, very hard wood.

Scientific name: Croton insularis, 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

eye

Speaker: Martial Wahe

termite

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. palm (Metroxylon warburgii), 2. kind of spear

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

exchange partner

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. treelet, 1.5 to 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4243)

Example: 1. Known as the spirit of kava, the inner stem of young leaves can be eaten as bush fodder.

Scientific name: Macropiper latifolium, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. copra bed

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3160)

Example: When a person is growing watermelons, you put a knife in the roots of the watermelon plants, and then cut a stick from this tree and drive it into the roots as well, to ensure greater numbers of watermelons will be grown.

Scientific name: Vitex trifolia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, growing in disturbed forest/garden area.

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Barringtonia asiatica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n sunbeam

Speaker: Martial wahe

earth oven

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

plant part to be identified used for tying

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of banana

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Paama kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of fern (used as chicken feed)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Tahitian chestnut

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Tripletail wrasse (female)

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

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

kind of coconut which is long and narrow

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Spotted Crow Eggfly

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

Scientific name: Hypolimnas antilope via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

kind of taro, has white flesh

Example: Is a soft taro variety good for boiling or roasting. It grows very tall

Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Pacific slopehead parrotfish, tan-faced parrotfish

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

Scientific name: Chlorurus frontalis via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Quoy’s parrotfish

Example: Photo by zsispeo, License: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr

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

Painted sweetlips

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

Scientific name: Diagramma pictum via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

brother

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Ambon emperor

Example: Photo by FAO / Fishbase, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Lethrinus amboinensis via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Japanese large-eye bream

Example: Photo by FAO / Fishbase, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Gymnocranius euanus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

kind of crab that lives in dirty water

Speaker: Martial Wahe

what

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n low tide

Speaker: Martial wahe

good afternoon

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n my molar (tooth)

Speaker: Martial wahe

[rigai ~ ringgai] Great Frigatebird

Example: Photo by Diego Delso / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Scientific name: Fregata minor, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. shrub to 1 m tall, flowers red. ornamental plant in homestead garden. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4735)

Example: Ornamental plant

Scientific name: Rosa chinensis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

afternoon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

I fight you, you gonna shit

(Bislama) by mi faetem you by yu sisit.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut half shell for drinking kava

Speaker: 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: Emmanuel Maasi

n. tree, 30 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3238)

Example: This tree is a source of good, hard wood. It is used to make children’s bows as well as for house construction.

Scientific name: Dysoxylum aneityense, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n Short-tailed Shearwater or Slender-billed Shearwater, a.k.a. mutton bird

Scientific name: Puffinus tenuirostris, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n a type of sea worm

Speaker: Martial Wahe

unicornfish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Blue trevally (male)

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

Scientific name: Carangoides ferdau via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Longnose trevally (male) (deep sea)

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

Scientific name: Carangoides chrysophrys via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

I sleep

(Bislama) mi silip

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

village between itapua and kwaraka

Speaker: Martial wahe