Nafe (Kwamera)

v wear a hat, cover (something)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v scrape out, spoon out

Speaker: Martial wahe

v wring, wring out (as kava from a strainer), squeeze by hand

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr clear (as the sky), break up (as clouds) dawn

Speaker: Wahe Martial

v. plant modifier word used with yam ("nuk")

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cut my penis( circumsision)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. open

(Bislama) openem

Speaker: Martial Wahe

adv., adj. wild, in the bush

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v 1. spill (as liquid); 2. capsize, overturn, dump out; 3. fall, drop

Speaker: Wahe Martial

vatu (currency unit)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[hasi] n. they are smoking

Speaker: Jean Eskar

Longfin African conger, moustache conger

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

Scientific name: Conger cinereus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

v I cut my hand

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. sand fly, 2. sand crab

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. devil

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n. ancestor

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ghost

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cousin (mother’s brother’s child)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

chief

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duck (native)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Vella Lavella White-Eye

Scientific name: Zosterops vellalavella, 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: Johnson Noar

kind of shellfish

Scientific name: Littorinidae sp., Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sparsely branched tree, 7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3044)

Example: Ceremonial: During a large kastom ceremony ("Nakwyari"), a branch of this plant is used to sweep the nakamal before the toka dance.

Scientific name: Meryta neo-ebudica, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

thunder

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my jaw

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

n. flying fox

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my anus

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copra

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club, with star shaped head

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cow

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after

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n. type of impromptu basket made of fern leaves

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

n. dry coconut leaf wall

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Blue-barred parrotfish

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

Scientific name: Scarus ghobban via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. moon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Mountain

Speaker: Martial Wahe

damsel fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Bluelined squirrelfish, Tahitian squirrelfish

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

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

butterfly fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5162)

Example: Fruits are edible, ripe, break open with hammer and eat seeds fresh. Stems for house posts. Stems for carving.

Scientific name: Cordia subcordata, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5048)

Example: Use with Euodia (MJB 5031; Nisei) when a young girl gets her period to reduce the odor. Put this plant under the skirt. When planting yam, dig the hole, and burn the leaves of this with coconut. Put this flaming concoction into the hole and cover it with soil. Then place the yam in. This will help kill any pathogen, like a virus, that will harm the yam.

Scientific name: Pittosporum campbellii, Speaker: Johnson Noar

[nakwanumɨn] rock earth oven

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of coconut, characterized by a round fruit with a reddish color on the top of the fruit

Scientific name: Cocos nucifera, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5128)

Example: Medicine for gonnorhea. Collect two plants and clean their roots, boil whole in 2 liters water, boil 20-40 minutes, drink the mixture hot, 2 cups a day, 3 weeks. This condition presents as a burning in the penis, along with other issues. For heavy cough, take double handful leaf, boil 10-15 minutes in 1 liter water, 2 cups day warm, for 5 days. Pods used to calm children by shaking as rattle, when they are crying.

Scientific name: Cassia, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. puffball

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5097)

Example: This tree is planted to mark the area of a Nakamal. Young roots used as bowstring..

Scientific name: Ficus prolixa, Speaker: Johnson Noar

leaf worn on head

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. something to do

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of yam, edible, white or purple color

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3159)

Scientific name: Melicope latifolia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3108)

Scientific name: Ficus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4242)

Example: 1. A variety of local pidgeons, including nawimba, manuapen, and kieri, eat the ripe fruits. 2. The leaves are used to seal roof seams in traditional houses. At the apex of the roofline, first coconut husk is placed, then the leaves of this plant, then finally, coconut leaves. The practice is referred to as kaweri nimaira.

Scientific name: Myristica fatua, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. large tree, 10-14 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Dysoxylum mole, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[natuwan] n. large tree, 10-14 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3124)

Example: The wood of this plant smells bad. It is locally called a type of "stink wood." When young children get circumsized in kastom ways, to change the leaves for their bandage, take off the bark of this stem, take the inside part and scrape it--mix a handful of the scrapings with grated coconut, put it together in a leaf, put it on the fire, heat it, when the coconut is browned, squeeze it together to get the "milk" that is yellow in color. When young children swim in saltwater to dry the cut from the circumcision, squeeze this on that area to help heal it.

Scientific name: Dysoxylum amooroides, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5038)

Example: Fruits edible when ripe. The stem is used for timber and sawn timber. Flowers attract fruit bats. Hunters, knowing this, hunt the bats at night.

Scientific name: Syzygium malaccense, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. lightning in sky

Speaker: Martial Wahe

two days from the present

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. soursop

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. yam, a kind of yam that is round, not long, with purple or yellow color. Purple ones can be eaten, yellow ones not eaten

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bamboo rear wall of traditional (cyclone) house

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. parasitic epiphyte growing on upper branches of fagraea berteroana, in dense forest along ridge.

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Amyema aneityensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. tree with small green fruit

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nəfua] n. tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3010)

Example: Construction: The timber of this plant is used as a hardwood for any part of a house. It is considered one of the finest woods for this purpose. Ornamental: Branches of this tree are used to create carvings.

Scientific name: Fagraea berteroana, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

your hair

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5157)

Example: When young baby is loosing weight, give young tops--cooked-- to mother to eat for one month to help increase milk. You can also scrape a handful of inner bark of Ficus kajewskii (5163) into small pieces with a knife, mix with a handful of the young tops of (5157) in 1L of water and cook it, and squeeze the juice into a bottle. Drink one cup twice daily for one month to help a mother who is not providing enough milk for her baby. Kids put inflorescences in hair as a sort of rasta fashion.

Scientific name: Boehmeria macrophylla, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Nuwekur village, near Iatukwei

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Two day kava (one stays intoxicated for two days)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of small kava with variegated leaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree (used for bows to hunt flying fox, and for traditional medicine), Goats like to eat the leaves.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable fruit, offspring

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. traditional medicine, cure for illness caused by Mwatiktiki (culture hero responsible for yam growth)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. An orange tree (wood used for bows) See kwanɨmɨri

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

wind direction from the north

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Tricolour parrotfish

Example: Photo by Bernard Dupont / Flickr, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

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

Grey large-eye bream

Example: Photo by BEDO (Thailand), License: CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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

my elder brother’s wife

Speaker: Martial wahe

[posokoni] lightning that stuns or kills fish

Speaker: Martial Wahe

edible grub, locust larvae

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. when something is given

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n low tide

Speaker: Martial wahe

salt sea water

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[rerenakwaŋ] n. herb growing on roadside along coast road. Flowers yellow. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3166)

Example: Children are said to chew the branches of this plant to give them a "bigger (stronger) voice.

Scientific name: Sonchus oleraceus, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n my bicuspid (tooth)

Speaker: Martial wahe

bag

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my esophagus

Speaker: Martial wahe

Mackerel scad

Example: Photo by David R / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Decapterus macarellus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[tamekɨn] notches cut into tree trunk, either as marking or foothold

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Thank you

Speaker: Martial Wahe

planting hole (for banana, taro)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. house central post

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Jean Eskar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5124)

Example: Used for the construction of many things including walls for houses and benches.

Scientific name: Bambusa vulgaris, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. kind of flowering shrub with prickly seed pods

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[tukrawus] n. unbranched tree, growing next to Ianarawia ("high hill") settlement (village of Philip Wahe). (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3153)

Example: The leaves of this plant are used by women to make grass skirts. Slice the leaf lengthwise, fold or roll them up, put to dry in sun until it becomes white. At that point it is used to make the grass skirt.

Scientific name: Dracaena sp., Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of yam, has white flesh, soft and sweet, with a very large tuber, and is easy to grow

Example: If it grows in good conditions, the tubers are so large that it takes two people to carry it on a pole

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar