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 | Catagi | Patience, sufferance; to endure, to suffer |
| Tongan | Cato | A bag; a basket |
| Tongan | Catooanga | A feast, feasting and jollity; to give a feast |
| Tongan | Cawna | Bitter; brackish |
| Tongan | Cawna | Intoxicated |
| Tongan | Chi | The name of a plant |
| Tongan | Chi | To throw, or cast away gently, to toss |
| Tongan | Chichi | An ornamental dress round the waist for either sex, made generally of leaves of the chi tree |
| Tongan | Chiagi | To throw away, to leave, to separate from a wife or husband, to divorce |
| Tongan | Chibi | A slap, a blow from a club; a particular kind of club |
| Tongan | Chicotá | A species of bird; a particular kind of club |
| Tongan | Coocoo | The muscle (shellfish) |
| Tongan | Chifa | A mother o'pearl shell, worn as an ornament by men, upon the breast, hanging by a string round the neck |
| Tongan | Chike | To sit on the haunches |
| Tongan | Chila | The sprits of a canoe |
| Tongan | Chili | To cast a hand-net |
| Tongan | Cobenga chili | A hand-net |
| Tongan | Chiod/ófa | A term of friendly salutation..; also a term of pity, as, poor fellow! |
| Tongan | Co | A particle very frequently used in the Tonga language... |
| Tongan | Co | Uncircumcised |
| Tongan | Coa. Fucca coa. | Froth, foam. To spume, to froth. |
| Tongan | Coa Papalangi | Soap |
| Tongan | Cobenga | Any kind of net |
| Tongan | Cobechi | The leaves of the paoanga, dried and embroidered with the fibres of the cocoa-nut husk, so as to form an instrument for imprinting gnatoo |
| Tongan | Coca | A brownish red juice, from the bark of a tree also called coca...used to stain or dye gnatoo with |
| Tongan | Cochi | To cut with scissars; to cut the hair of the head |
| Tongan | Cocoho | Eruption of a volcano, or of fire, vapour, steam |
| Tongan | Coe/ni | This |
| Tongan | Cofe | The bamboo |
| Tongan | Cofoo | To inclose, or wrap up |
| Tongan | Cofoo | To clothe |
| Tongan | Coia | Well done! that's right! truly |
| Tongan | Co/ia | That (relative pronoun) |
| Tongan | Coi/há. He-ha. | What? which? why? what is the matter? |
| Tongan | Colo | A fortress |
| Tongan | Coloa | Riches, property, any thing of value |
| Tongan | Möóni. Co-möóni. | Truth; actual, trusty. Indeed it is true/ |
| Tongan | Conga | A piece |
| Tongan | Nima-coo | With the loss of a finger |
| Tongan | Nifo-coo | Toothless, having lost a tooth |
| Tongan | Coocoo | To grasp; a handful |
| Tongan | Coola | A species of the paroquet; beads |
| Tongan | Coola-coola | Red |
| Tongan | Cooloo-cooloo | A species of the dove (the columba purpurata) |
| Tongan | Cote | Gibberish, jargon, chattering of birds; the speech of foreigners [including Fijians but not Samoans] |
| Tongan | Cotoa | Mass, whole, bulk; complete, entire |
| Tongan | Cotóa/bé | Wholly |
| Tongan | Covi | Bad, malicious; a bad design, a wicked intention |
| Tongan | Cow | Many; sign of the plural number, but only used when speaking of men, or of brute animals |
| Tongan | Cow | Stalk, stem |
