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 | Manga | The barb of an arrow or spear, any thing open, diverging, or fork-shaped |
| Tongan | Manifi(-nifi) | Thin, slender |
| Tongan | Mano | Ten thousand |
| Tongan | Manoo | A bird (of any kind) |
| Tongan | Mataboole | A rank below chiefs |
| Tongan | Matangi | The wind, windy |
| Tongan | Mate | Death, carnage, a corpse, an eclipse; to die, to wither |
| Tongan | Mate | To guess, to conjecture |
| Tongan | Matoloo | Thick in respect of bulk, or extension (not as to fluidity) |
| Tongan | Mátów | A fish-hook |
| Tongan | Matta | The eyes, countenance, complexion, look, appearance |
| Tongan | Matta | Edge of any thing, brink, boundary |
| Tongan | Matta fonnooa | Coast, or shore |
| Tongan | Matta falle | The threshold |
| Tongan | Mawle | To vanish, to disappear |
| Tongan | Me | From (as, from any place) |
| Tongan | Me | The bread-fruit, or tree |
| Tongan | Mea | Affairs, things, effects; some, a part of |
| Tongan | Méhegitáanga | An aunt |
| Tongan | Melíë | Sweet |
| Tongan | Mello. Mello-mello. | Brown, yellow. Tawny. |
| Tongan | Miáw-i | Wreathed, serpentine; to twist |
| Tongan | Michi | A dream; to dream |
| Tongan | Michi | To suck, to inhale |
| Tongan | Mili | To rub, to smooth down |
| Tongan | Milo | The name of a tree |
| Tongan | Milo | A top, a tetotum; to spin round |
| Tongan | Mimi | To make water; urine |
| Tongan | Mo | And, also, likewise, with, besides |
| Tongan | Moa | The domestic fowl |
| Tongan | Moa/moa | Dryness, dry |
| Tongan | Moco | A species of lizard |
| Tongan | Mocoboona | A nephew or niece |
| Tongan | Moko/sia | To be cold (subjectively), feel cold, be affected by the cold |
| Tongan | Moco/chíä. Moco/moco. | Cold, chilly, cool. |
| Tongan | Mófooíge | An earthquake |
| Tongan | Mohe | Sleep; to sleep, to roost |
| Tongan | Mohenga | A bed, a mat |
| Tongan | Mohoogoo | Long weedy grass |
| Tongan | Mohoonoo | Parched, blighted |
| Tongan | Moli | The shaddock, the citron |
| Tongan | Molle(-molle) | Glossy |
| Tongan | Moloo | Soft, flexible |
| Tongan | Mo/moko | Cold, bleak; a consumption, or wasting away |
| Tongan | Momo/e. Momó/ë. | A scrap, a crumb. Petty, small. |
| Tongan | Momohé | Coition, sexual intercourse (literally to sleep with) |
| Tongan | Momoho | Ripe, to become ripe |
| Tongan | Monga | The protuberant cartilage of the throat |
| Tongan | Mongamonga | A cockchafer, a beetle of any kind |
| Tongan | Mónooíá | Fortunate, lucky |
