Entries from Martin 1827 in Pollex-Online
Martin, J. (1827). An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean, with an original grammar and vocabulary of their language, compiled and arranged from the extensive communications of Mr.William Mariner, several years reside in those islands. Edinburgh, Constable and Co.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Tongan | Foonga | The beach; the deck of a vessel; the top or summit of a hill where it is flat; the top of any thing |
| Tongan | Foo-o | Afresh, anew, new |
| Tongan | Foo-ó-vaca | To build canoes |
| Tongan | Fooö/hági | To lie along on the ground with the face upwards |
| Tongan | Foota | To boast |
| Tongan | Foote | Effort; to strive with muscular energy, to struggle |
| Tongan | Fota | The ceremony of pressing a chief's foot upon the belly of a person taboo'd; also, their method of compressing the skin to relieve pain |
| Tongan | Fotoo manáva | The right auricle of the heart |
| Tongan | Fow | A frontlet, a fillet round the forehead, headband, a turban of any sort |
| Tongan | Fow | A substance used to wring out cava ,&c. |
| Tongan | Fow/agi | To load, to freight, &c. as a basket, a canoe |
| Tongan | Fucca | To make, to fashion, to cause to be done |
| Tongan | Fy | A fish called the sting-ray |
| Tongan | Fygnata | Difficult, arduous |
| Tongan | Fygnofooa | Easy to be accomplished, easy |
| Tongan | Fytoca | A grave or burying-place |
| Tongan | Fucca-fe-tai | To thank |
| Tongan | Fucca-hoohoo | To suckle |
| Tongan | Fucca-láä | To bask in the sun; insolation, exposure to the sun |
| Tongan | Fucca-ma | To abash |
| Tongan | Fucca-manga | To open the mouth, to gape, to gasp |
| Tongan | Fucca-mata | To sharpen |
| Tongan | Fucca-nofo | To seat, or cause to sit |
| Tongan | Fucca-afoo-mate | The name of the ninth lunar month |
| Tongan | Fucca-afoo-möoói | The name of the tenth lunar month |
| Tongan | Fucca-ofa | To caress, to fondle |
| Tongan | Fucca-áta | To aim |
| Tongan | Fucca-ilonga | To betoken, to note, to mark, to trace; omonious |
| Tongan | Fucca-ita | To affront, aggravate, make angry, displease; to pout or look displeased |
| Tongan | Fucca-ochi | To conclude, to perfect; to extirpate, to demolish |
| Tongan | Fucca-taha | To adjoin, unite to, coalesce, connect, interlace; to league, to be in company with; together, inseparate |
| Tongan | Fucca-tow | To barter, truck, or deal with, to commute, to lay a wager or bet |
| Tongan | Fucca-tonoo | To demonstrate |
| Tongan | Fucca-tooboo | To beget, to cause to spring up, to grow |
| Tongan | Ge. Ge chi. | Yet. Insufficient, i.e. yet a little. |
| Tongan | Gea | A species of the breadfruit |
| Tongan | Gele | A dike, a ditch, to dig, to intrench, a bank of earth |
| Tongan | Gele-gele | Earth or mould, the ground |
| Tongan | Gelea | A couch [sc. conch] |
| Tongan | Gelemootoo | The common earth-worm |
| Tongan | Gemo. He/gemo. | The eyelash, to wink. In the twinkling of an eye. |
| Tongan | Ky. Ge/na. | To eat, to take a meal. To champ, to munch, to devour, to eat; to corrode or canker, as iron or cloth, with age and exposure |
| Tongan | Gehe | Different, differently; apart, separate, separately; removed; uncommon |
| Tongan | Gehe-gehe | Elsewhere |
| Tongan | Gi | At, to, into; than; towards, among; against, opposite |
| Tongan | Gia | The gorge or throat, the neck |
| Tongan | Gi-botoo | On one side, towards |
| Tongan | Gi-hage | Upwards |
| Tongan | Hifo. Gi-hifo. | Down, below. Downwards. |
| Tongan | Lalo. Gi-lalo. | Below, deep, the bottom. Below, down, downwards. |
