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 | Oo | A bundle |
| Tongan | Ooa | The numeral two |
| Tongan | Ooanga | A maggot |
| Tongan | Ooca | A bow-string |
| Tongan | Oó-oó. Oo/chia. | To bite, to peck, to sting. To bite; stung. |
| Tongan | Oochi. Aʔoochi. | The buttocks. |
| Tongan | Oocummea | Metal of any sort, particularly iron |
| Tongan | Oofi | The yam |
| Tongan | Oofi-oofi | To cover over |
| Tongan | Ooha | Rain |
| Tongan | Oohigi | Small, diminutive; young of any animal |
| Tongan | Oohila | Lightning; to lighten |
| Tongan | Ooi | To call out, to call after, to cry or exclaim against; the interjection, fye! |
| Tongan | Ooli | Black, dark, gloomy |
| Tongan | Oolli | To steer |
| Tongan | Oolo | Blaze, flame |
| Tongan | Oolo | To glow |
| Tongan | Ulu | The head |
| Tongan | Oolooagi | First, beginning |
| Tongan | Ooloo-boco | A skull |
| Tongan | Ooloonga | A pillow |
| Tongan | Ooma | A kiss |
| Tongan | Ooma | The shoulder |
| Tongan | Oome | A seal (phoca) |
| Tongan | Oomochi | A cork, a stopple; to bung up; a pledget of banana leaf for wounds |
| Tongan | Oomoo | Victuals dressed under ground, or baked |
| Tongan | Oono | Scale of a fish, tortoise-shell |
| Tongan | Oó-o | Craw-fish |
| Tongan | O´-ooa | To desist, hold, forbear; softly; until |
| Tongan | Ooto | The brain; the cocoanut, when it is in the act of germinating |
| Tongan | Otoo | A line or row |
| Tongan | Otooli | A fish, resembling mackerel |
| Tongan | Pa | A certain kind of fish-hook, made of tortoise shell and mother of pearl shell, on which no bait is put... |
| Tongan | Paloo | To mix with water |
| Tongan | Pani | To bedaub, to smear |
| Tongan | Papa | The hollow piece of board on which gnatoo is imprinted |
| Tongan | Low papa | A board |
| Tongan | Patta. Pa/pata. | Grained, rough, coarse |
| Tongan | Pátoo | A mark of a wound not gained in battle |
| Tongan | Peca | A apecies of bat, the vespertilio vampyrus |
| Tongan | Pete-pete | Rough, rugged (a face marked with the small pox they would call thus) |
| Tongan | Pya | Destitute, an orphan |
| Tongan | Ta. Tá-tá. Té/ia. | To strike or beat. A mallet or hammer. To belabour, or beat. |
| Tongan | Ta | To hew, to carve wood or stone |
| Tongan | Tamate. Tamaté. Támatéä. | To kill by striking. Kill him, kill it. To kill. |
| Tongan | Ta-tattów | To strike the tattow |
| Tongan | Tacanga. Cow catanga. | An attendant of a chief. The suite of a chief. |
| Tongan | Tácapów | Mats of the cocoanut leaf, used for flooring |
| Tongan | Tacca | To be present at, or to assist at any amusement |
| Tongan | Tacca | A circuit or perambulation |
