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 | I/á-oo-é. I/á-whé. Oiáooé. Oiaoo. | Interjection: ah! An interjection of disdain. Alas! An expression of pity or pain, surprise. |
| Tongan | I | A fan |
| Tongan | How | To come, to approach |
| Tongan | How | A king, the supreme chief (not as to rank, but power) |
| Tongan | Hotooa pow | A demon |
| Tongan | Hootooa | An immaterial being, as a god, spirit, &c.; also any evil by the infliction of the gods, a bodily complaint, a boil. This word sometimes applies to foreigners. |
| Tongan | Hoóö. | Taste or flavour |
| Tongan | Hoóö | To till the land, to clear a plantation; also a wooden implement used for digging, &c. |
| Tongan | Hoonoo | To singe |
| Tongan | Hooli | A sprout from the root of a plant, a sapling |
| Tongan | Hooi | A bone; also a needle or pin |
| Tongan | Hoohoo | The female breast, the teat of any animal; milk |
| Tongan | Hoogoo | To dive, to immerge |
| Tongan | Ho | The possessive pronoun, your |
| Tongan | Tabooni | To shut; a bolt or bar |
| Tongan | Taboo | Forbidden, illicit; also sacred, consecrated, under a prohibition, any thing forbidden to be eaten or touched |
| Tongan | Táàˊgi | To deracinate, to pull up |
| Tongan | Tabili | Bellows, also blowing the fire with the breath |
| Tongan | Táàˊfi | An obstacle, to obstruct |
| Tongan | Pacáwla | The corpse of one slain in battle |
| Tongan | Te, té-té/ | Almost, well nigh. |
| Tongan | Chino | The body, the trunk of a tree; figure, or form of any thing, dimension, size |
| Tongan | Chinifoo | The wife of a king, or superior chief |
| Tongan | Taw | The sugar-cane |
| Tongan | Pachi | To clap the hands |
| Tongan | Tootooe | Thin, emaciated |
| Tongan | Toogoo | To allow; to bequeath; termination of labour |
| Tongan | Palla | A sore, an ulcer; to fester, to suppurate; the name of a disease |
| Tongan | Pali | The os pubis; the share bone |
| Tongan | Pale | To parry a spear or arrow |
| Tongan | Pale | To push or shove along, as a canoe in shallow water |
| Tongan | Pagíā | To impinge, to fall or strike against, to squash |
| Tongan | Motoloo. Gimótóloo | Ye, you, your (used only when three or more persons are signified) |
| Tongan | Bawla | Matting made of the branches of the cocoa-nut tree, with which houses are thatched |
| Tongan | Lohi | Falsehood, assumed conduct; to lie, to assume |
| Tongan | A | A fence |
| Tongan | Aców | Wood; any sort of club |
| Tongan | Toonga | A pile, or heap; a row of plantain or banana trees; a sign of the plural number of animated beings |
| Tongan | Lia-lia | Disagreeable to the sight, abominable, brutal, filthy |
| Tongan | Loóö | A hole, a pit, a valley |
| Tongan | Gete | The abdomen, the belly, the stomach, the gizzard of fowl |
| Tongan | Ger | The sign of the infinitive mood, to; also of the subjunctive or potential mood, that |
| Tongan | A | Of or belonging to (used only before proper names of persons and places) |
| Tongan | Aa | To awake |
| Tongan | Abi | Habitation; home |
| Tongan | Abó | To-night |
| Tongan | Abongi-bongi | To-morrow |
| Tongan | Aca | A root |
| Tongan | Aca | To kick; a kick |
| Tongan | Achi | Through; bored through; to pierce through |
