Nafe (Kwamera)

n. kind of tree (Cerbera odollam) (with poisonous fruit with white sap inside tree and fruit)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5129)

Example: Ornamental plant.

Scientific name: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5138)

Example: Remove base from flower and chew flower--tastes sweet. Long ago there were no pens, you could use this flower to write message on wood.

Scientific name: Malvaviscus arboreus, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. hibiscus

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of liana

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kava

Scientific name: Piper methysticum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. white kava

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n. ordinary kava

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n. Vila kava

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alcoholic drink

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kava shoot with a double sprout

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of kava with short branches

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of kava with variegated leaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of kava with many small branches

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Paama kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. black kava (stems are black color)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of kava with smooth outer bark

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of kava with smooth outer bark

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of small kava with variegated leaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of kava artificially sprouted at an upper node of a planted cutting (large tapuga are exchanged during circumcision feasts)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. two day’ kava (i.e., one stays intoxicated for two days) (English "two days")

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nəkwa̤j reje] n. small tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3132), used to make fishing spears, and used to make small house posts that support thatch roof

Example: Straight stem used for spear shaft

Scientific name: Tapeinosperma, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe, Martial Wahe

n. wild kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree fork

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n my heart

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heart

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my heart

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your heart

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their heart

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his heart

Speaker: Martial Wahe

canoe parts: outrigger spar, boom

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. mistletoe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable planting tuber (as of a taro from which a new tuber has grown)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sandalwood

Speaker: Martial Wahe

branched coral

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of tree (var. of kƗrha)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable small offshoot tubers

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5077)

Example: Stem used to make canoe. Easy to cut.

Scientific name: Hernandia nymphaeifolia, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. small plant with variegated leaves

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. dragon plum (Dracontomela vitiense)

(Bislama) nakatambol

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. blue water tree (Pterocarpus indicus)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. coconut spathe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bridge

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n. driftwood

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of kava with crinkled 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

book

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable fruit, offspring

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. fruit of nukwesi

Speaker: Martial Wahe

name of a star constellation

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of fish hook

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. fish poison tree

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. tree, growing in disturbed forest/garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3105)

Example: People eat the young leaves, boiling them in water until they are soft and ready to eat. Or, the green leaves are edible when raw, put coconut flesh and salt in the leaf and eat.

Scientific name: Ficus wassa, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

air

Speaker: Martial Wahe

reef, growing coral

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. leaf, foliage 2. sheet, leaf (of paper)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. bush

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. forest

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n. my hair

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n. your hair

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n. his/her hair

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coral

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. traditional ’leaf’ medicines (general term)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of laplap made from bananas and coconut

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Martial Wahe

air

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cyclone

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hurricane

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable leaves (usually indicates plurality): plants, plantation, trees, etc.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5088)

Example: Leaf used to thatch house. Chew base of stem as sugar cane - it’s sweet.

Scientific name: Miscanthus sinensis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. kind of fern (used as chicken feed)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. Tahitian chestnut

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n moonbeam

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n moonlight

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n. Mimosa sp., Bislama: ’Christmas tree’

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5060)

Example: Kastom medicine to ascertain the type of sickness a person has. Take two small 6 in. long branches with leaves, and place this on the person along with another unspecified plant. Will help diagnosis.

Scientific name: Breynia disticha, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. kind of tree used for house posts

Speaker: Martial Wahe

bush

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n. kind of thick grass

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n moustache

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n earthquake

(Bislama) hedkwek

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. coals

Speaker: Martial Wahe

beach, sand

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of sugarcane (see -mƗmis)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. orange (tree)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of red soil found in south Tanna

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of high prestige yam

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. kind of sugarcane, small with brown color, very sweet

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. a type of sugarcane, with brown skin, very sweet, planted in gardens

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut parasite

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5076)

Example: Leaves used in cooking to flavor soup. To cure sore known as "yaush" that is the size of a 50 vatu coin or larger, take 2-3 branches, collect leaves, put in pot, and warm. Wash the sore 3x day wash for 1-2 weeks. This disease is caused by flies and mosquitos. Yaush is the English name. Mosquito or fly bites the person, passes worm similar to filariasis, then a boil erupts and scratch it becomes big sore. Dry leaves and flowers, put in tin, and light it up to keep mosquitoes away. The smoke from this burning plant chases away mosquitoes like a coil.

Scientific name: Ocimum, Speaker: Johnson Noar

ashes

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. ashes for cleaning, ashes after fire

Speaker: Martial Wahe

ashes

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5096)

Example: Fruits used to feed hens to increase fertility -- mix seed with dry coconut and give to hen to increase eggs.

Scientific name: Phyllanthus ciccoides, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. kind of fern, can be used to clean kava root

Speaker: Martial Wahe