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 | Matooa. Motooa. Fafine motooa. | An old man. Age, old, state; (of bread-fruit, yams, &c.) full-grown, ripe; to wear away with age. An old woman, a widow, also a wife. |
| Tongan | Fooági | To make a present; to give; given |
| Tongan | Fooanga | A grindstone, a whetstone |
| Tongan | Gnaoóë | Employment, work |
| Tongan | Fagnawta. Fangawta. | Shell fish of any kind, to gather shell fish. Shell-fish, the act of picking up shell-fish on the beach at low water. |
| Tongan | Fahe, fahe-fahe | To split, to rend, cracked, broken, separated off |
| Tongan | Fäíte | The posture in which the women sit on the ground, not cross-legged as the men, but with the legs doubled up on one side |
| Tongan | Fáïva, fyiva | Knack, dexterity, slight of hand |
| Tongan | Fala | A mat to sleep on |
| Tongan | Faligi, falligi | To pave, to floor |
| Tongan | Falle | A house |
| Tongan | Faló | To stretch in point of length |
| Tongan | Fananga | A fable, a fictitious tale |
| Tongan | Fanga | Beach, shore |
| Tongan | Fango | Oil of any kind |
| Tongan | Fango-fango | To blow the nose, also flutes blown by the nose |
| Tongan | Fanna | A mast |
| Tongan | Fanna | To shoot as with a gun or bow |
| Tongan | Fanna-fonnooa | Great guns, ord[n]ance, cannon |
| Tongan | Fánów | Pregnancy, childbirth |
| Tongan | Fánów | Progeny, offspring, to bring forth young |
| Tongan | Fáö | A peg, a nail |
| Tongan | Faoo | To take away by main force, or by virtue of superior rank or authority |
| Tongan | Faoo | To load, to burthen, to stock with |
| Tongan | Fata | A shelf, a loft; a hand-barrow |
| Tongan | Fata fata | The chest, the thorax |
| Tongan | Fátongía | A tax, impost, work to be done to discharge a tax |
| Tongan | Fatoo | To fold or wrap up; furl (sail); a bale |
| Tongan | Toola. Fa/toola. | Bald, bald-headed. Beardless. |
| Tongan | Fatoo | The stomach |
| Tongan | Fy, fe | To do |
| Tongan | Fe. Gi-fé. I/fé. | Where, what place. Where? whither? |
| Tongan | Feców | To bid, command, order; a message, an order |
| Tongan | Feféca | Strong, athletic, sturdy; hard, hardness, stiff, inflexible |
| Tongan | Fei/a | To effect, to do |
| Tongan | Feke-feke | The ague |
| Tongan | Fe/kita | To congrete, to salute, to hug |
| Tongan | Fekke | The fish commonly called cat-fish |
| Tongan | Fekkika | A certain kind of tree |
| Tongan | Fekký | A disposition to devour, or bite mankind, applied to cannibals or to any animal that bites or eats men... |
| Tongan | Fele/oko | Storehouse for yams or other garden food |
| Tongan | Fele/óco | A store-house |
| Tongan | Felow | To navigate, to make a voyage; a canoe, a fleet of canoes, a voyage |
| Tongan | Feoo-feoo | Coral |
| Tongan | Feoomoo | To cook |
| Tongan | Fetai | Thanks |
| Tongan | Fetama | Gestation, pregnancy |
| Tongan | Fe/tongi | A turn to work to relieve another (In the sea phrase, a spell) |
| Tongan | Fetoó | A star, a planet |
| Tongan | Fi | To twist, to plait |
