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 | Vala | Apparel, dress |
| Tongan | Valea | Insane |
| Tongan | Valoo | The numeral eight |
| Tongan | Vaoo | A bush, wood, thicket |
| Tongan | Váooa | Uncultivated (as land); overrun with weeds; fallow |
| Tongan | Vave, vavea | Speed, velocity; quick, swift-footed, brisk |
| Tongan | Vela | Calid, hot; to scald |
| Tongan | Velo | Jaculation, projection (as of a spear); also to launch, or to slide along |
| Tongan | Vete | To unrol, to loosen, to untie; to despoil, to divest, to plunder, to dispossess of, to pillage; booty, plunder |
| Tongan | Vili | A gimlet |
| Tongan | Vow-vow | To scrape |
| Tongan | Vy | Water, liquid, fluidity, juice, a pond, any thing serous or watery |
| Tongan | Vy tafe | A river, a brook |
| Tongan | Vy-mooa | The third lunar month |
| Tongan | Vy-mooi | The fourth lunar month, or second rainy month |
| Tongan | Vy-vy | Weak, debilitated, faint |
| Tongan | Wo | To go, to proceed, used in a plural sens |
| Tongan | Y. Y-anga. | To put, to place, to deposit. A case, a sheath. |
| Tongan | Y-toa! | Serve you right! you deserve it! I am glad of it! |
| Tongan | Be | Only, alone, solely, by oneself; never otherwise than |
| Tongan | Ca/ló | To bark, to yelp like a dog |
| Tongan | Fucca lolongo, fucca longo-longo | To quiet, to recompose, to hush, quiet |
| Tongan | Fucca mow | To make fast, to fasten, to secure, to tie, to furl (as a sail) |
| Tongan | Fucca vaca | Haft, handle |
| Tongan | Hé/ähó/ni | To-day |
| Tongan | Heláha | Fruit of the tree so called, used to make necklaces Problematic |
| Tongan | Hele | Evasion; to dissemble, to decoy |
| Tongan | Hina | A gourd; a bottle |
| Tongan | Hooa-ky. Hoóö-ky. Hoóo-ky. | Gluttony. Greedy, gluttonous. Ravenous after food, greedy. |
| Tongan | Maleca | Bodily pleasure, sensual gratification Problematic |
| Tongan | Maoo | Clear; to define; explanatory |
| Tongan | Patoó | Occursion, a clapping together with a noise, pulsation of the heart |
| Tongan | Táäne | Marriage, or rejoicings on a chief's marriage |
| Tongan | Fy-taoo | To get ready the leaves, &c. with which the victuals are covered during the process of cooking |
| Tongan | Tome | A sort of torch |
| Tongan | Tooa | The lower class of people; the name of the lowest rank in society |
| Tongan | Taggi-taha-be | Each, each one |
| Tongan | Hoonoogi | To stick a skewer or peg in any thing; the name of the stick put in the ground for the tendrils of the yams to rest on |
| Tongan | Linga | The male organs of generation (a vulgarism) Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Tongan | Páoonga | The tree, the leaves of which are used for imprinting gnatoo |
| Tongan | Tówtówoonga | A circular flat piece of wood, surrounding the middle of the string, by which the oil baskets hang, so as to prevent rats getting to the basket |
| Tongan | Aw-i | An expression of pity, also of pain |
| Tongan | Cácá | Deceit, imposition |
| Tongan | Cow-mea | An adherent or follower |
| Tongan | Fýcaký lolo tootoo, fýcaký lolo matta | Names of particular preparations of food |
| Tongan | Gnagnów | Headach |
| Tongan | Hohoni | Large cocoa-nut shells to hold water |
| Tongan | Loa | To paint the face in time of war |
| Tongan | Lo/lotonga | Already; time, period; then, at that time |
| Tongan | Lona | The hiccups (singular) |
