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 | Hoco | To splice or knot |
| Tongan | Hoco. Tahi hoco. | To flow. High water. |
| Tongan | Ica | A fish; fish |
| Tongan | Ifi | To blow |
| Tongan | Ifi afi | Evening |
| Tongan | Igi | Diminutive, tiny |
| Tongan | Igi | The mallet with which they beat out the bark of the heabo to form tapa |
| Tongan | Igoo | The tail |
| Tongan | Ihoo | The nose; also used as our word nozle, applied fantastically to the prominence of any thing |
| Tongan | Iký | The negative no; never; none |
| Tongan | Ila | A mole or mark in the skin |
| Tongan | Ilonga | A crease, mark, symptom, omen, criterion |
| Tongan | Inachi | A share; also the name of a religious ceremony |
| Tongan | Inoo | To drink |
| Tongan | I´ö | The affirmative, yes; the interj. ah indeed! well! |
| Tongan | Ita | Anger, displeasure; vexed, angry |
| Tongan | Jia | To entangle; a place to catch birds |
| Tongan | Jiaw/ta | A looking-glass |
| Tongan | Jio | A stare; to look, to peep |
| Tongan | Kefoo | Flaxen |
| Tongan | Keviki | The crab-fish |
| Tongan | Kiji kiji vy | The horse-fly |
| Tongan | Kikila, kila-kila | Dazzling, to flare |
| Tongan | Ky fonnooa | A vassal; also, the common people |
| Tongan | Kyhá. Kyhachia. | To thieve, to steal. Stolen. |
| Tongan | La | A sail of a canoe, or other vessel |
| Tongan | Láä | The sun, sunshine |
| Tongan | Láë | The brow, or forehead |
| Tongan | Lafa-lafa, lalafa, lalaffa, lafa | Flat |
| Tongan | Lafa | The ringworm, or tetter |
| Tongan | Laffo | To throw or pitch |
| Tongan | Lahe | Lime, which they make from coral |
| Tongan | Lahi | Many, several; powerful, great |
| Tongan | Laho. Foi laho. | The scrotum. A testicle. |
| Tongan | Lala | A bitch etc. |
| Tongan | Langa. La/langa. | To plait mats, to weave. To weave |
| Tongan | La/lava. Lava-lava. | To fasten the beams of canoes, &c. with plait, made of the husk of the cocoa-nut. Bound, to wind round. |
| Tongan | Lamoo | To chew, to grind between the teeth |
| Tongan | Langa | To build, to make |
| Tongan | Langa | To make a pole used to break the ground for planting yams |
| Tongan | Langi | The sky; also the name of the burial place of Tooitonga during the time of burial, the ceremony itself also |
| Tongan | Langi | To sing, a body of singers |
| Tongan | Lango | The common house-fly |
| Tongan | Lanoo | To wash, to rince |
| Tongan | Lata | Tame, to be contented with one's situation |
| Tongan | Lavéä | Any wound, except from a warlike instrument |
| Tongan | Lea | Speech, voice, language, pronunciation |
| Tongan | Lebo | Leaves of the breadfruit tree, sewed together for the purpose of covering food in cooking, to keep in the steam |
| Tongan | Lelle | To run |
| Tongan | Lelléa | Adrift, driven to leeward |
