Nafe (Kwamera)

v var. of -akwai(akwai)

Speaker: Martial wahe

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

Speaker: Martial wahe

v intr smack lips (as to call a dog)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v work, produce, enlarge or improve (as one’s resources)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v 1. strive, work at and succeed, go where there is no road, beat through the bush or heavy seas; 2. persevere, go ahead with anyway, pester

Speaker: Martial wahe

v err, make a mistake

Speaker: Martial wahe

ceremony

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v drink water

(Bislama) tra drink wata

Speaker: Martial Wahe

seawards

Speaker: Martial Wahe

scrape the coconut

(Bislama) sikrasem coconat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v eat two things, like meat and taro together rather than only meat

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v push something, like a car or tree

(Bislama) pusum trak

Speaker: Martial Wahe

go dive

Speaker: Martial wahe

lady finger bananas

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

mullet

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cousin (mother’s brother’s child)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

exchange ground; place of exchange

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Port Resolution

Speaker: Martial Wahe

old grandparents

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Collared Kingfisher

Example: Photo by JJ Harrison, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Scientific name: Todiramphus chloris, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. basket made of a woven coconut frond

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

kind of shellfish

Scientific name: Littorinidae sp., Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of sea shell; droga

(Bislama) Droka

Example: eatable shell, boiled in the saucepan or roasted in the fire

Speaker: Martial Wahe

throwing stone (long, cylindrical)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my spine

Speaker: Martial wahe

a children’s game

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of basket woven with young coconut leaves.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[koa̤pe] n. tree in house area near village, 5 m tall (collection: Michael J. Balick #4720)

Example: The fruit of this tree is edible. The stem yields posts for building houses. The wood from the tree is said to be very strong, so larger parts of the tree can be used for house construction. The leaves are used to treat diarrhea. A person chews 4 leaves at a time as long as needed.

Scientific name: Psidium guajava, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Areolate grouper

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

Scientific name: Epinephelus areolatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Whitespotted grouper

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

Scientific name: Epinephelus coeruleopunctatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. tree, up to 15 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Barringtonia edulis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 2-3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3031)

Example: Ceremonial: Following circumcision, boys will perform a ritual shower using a mixture of this plant and coconut. The leaves of this plant are mixed with the copra of the coconut and squeezed with water over the boys’ heads. Construction: The wood of this tree is used as rafters in house construction.

Scientific name: Melicope, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Scientific name: Sterculia banksiana, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. twin apple (Ochrosia oppositifolia)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

initial stage of coconut development

Example: Coconut fruit bud

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kwenasənas] n. epiphyte growing on neonauclea forsteri trunk, about 2-3 m above ground (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2977)

Example: Ornamental: The tiny seeds, appearing as a powder, are used to decorate one’s face during kastom ceremonies. The plant is used when the fruit is yellow.

Scientific name: Dendrobium, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. slingshot

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. dry coconut leaf wall

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of fern (var. of nƗnhupwi)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n bend in the road

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. coconut leaf roof thatching

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Jean Eskar

Giant trevally (deep sea)

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

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

kind of cassava, a very productive variety

Scientific name: Manihot esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

dawn

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my rib

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. kind of banana

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. traditional house wall of wild cane or bamboo

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. coconut

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of tree, fruit eaten by flying foxes

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n thing, object, being

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5111)

Example: Use leaf to line earth oven on top of stones to protect lap lap from burning. If you’re building a bush house in the forest, children can sleep on these leaves in a temporary house.

Scientific name: Microsorum grossum, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. epiphyte growing in dense forest, along ridge. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3023)

Example: Ornamental: After one week of being sun-dried, men will place this plant in their arm band (“Tikinapuai”) during katom ceremonies.

Scientific name: Huperzia phlegmaria, 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. kind of plant (leaves used in medical preparations)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree to 6 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Morinda citrifoli, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[narɨr] n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2972)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Fish Poison: To help catch fish, a bundle of leaves are squeezed and placed in a stream. After some time, the fish appear stunned and are caught.

Scientific name: Leucosyke australis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. low-branching tree; Alexandrian laurel, balltree, beach calophyllum

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Calophyllum inophyllum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nikinapus] n. shrub, 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3067)

Example: Young boys make bows from the stems of this plant, and use them for hunting as the wood is hard and strong. If a boy needs a bow urgently, to hunt, he can use this.

Scientific name: Acalypha cf. repanda, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. small tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3240)

Example: People use the wood of this plant to make arrows. When hunting flying fox, people cut a 2’ pieces of the stem to throw at the animal and catch it.

Scientific name: Psychotria trichostoma, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. fern, used for tying bundles of wild cane in house construction

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 #5102)

Example: Cook young leaves in water for 5 min and then eat.

Scientific name: Polyscias fruticosa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut shell for drinking

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nəkora:ku] 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: Jean Pascal Wahe

v. to love

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. rubber tree, bark used in tapa production

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree along the road, short trunk. pale grey bark. short erected leaves. small orange figs. (collection: Laurence Ramon #334)

Scientific name: Ficus obliqua, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

arrowhead, used for hunting fish, fowl or flying fox, traditionally made from black palm, now usually from metal

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. well branched tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3075)

Example: The stem of this tree makes good firewood, it is a light wood so easier to carry. People use it to start a fire, by using 2 sticks of this plant with chopped stem fragments, if there are no matches

Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. bed, copra bed

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

digging stick

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of parasitic vine (philodendron?)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

his heart

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. fern tree (black palm), 2. barbed arrow (made of nɨkweto wood)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

house traditional

Speaker: Martial Wahe

word, speech, talking

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut fibre, outer husk, coir

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

eclipse (lunar?)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree (wood used for small canoe outrigger or house posts)

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. axe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

traditional stone axe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cousin (mother’s sister’s child, father’s brother’s child)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

my elder brother’s daughter.

Speaker: Wahe Martial

n parrotfish (general)

(Bislama) napoleon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n my left hand

Speaker: Martial wahe

my mum, my mother

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[riŋ] n. tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2992)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Hunting: Pidgeons are known to eat the fruit of this plant. As a result, hunters will cluster about these trees to hunt this animal. Construction: The timber of the plant is used to make roof members of local houses.

Scientific name: Parasponia andersonii, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5093)

Example: For an earache, take a double handful of leaves, mash, and squeeze in your ear.

Scientific name: Calyptocarpus vialis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n my ankle

Speaker: Wahe

sea snake black and white

Pickhandle barracuda

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

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

grave

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5116)

Example: If a person gets cut while on reef, take leaves and burn them to an ash. Put this powder on the sore for one day to dry and heal cut. For constipation, take 1 handful bark, mash it, put with coconut water (one coconut’s worth), and drink a cup once. Don’t do other activites. This will clear bowel within a day. Very powerful.

Scientific name: Excoecaria agallocha, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

today pool of water

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, 6 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Claoxylon fallax, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

place name: the highest mountain on Tanna Island

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n cocoon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n slingshot

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n volcanic eruption

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Black Soldier Fly

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

Scientific name: Hermetia illucens via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe