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 | Fia | Want, being without; to want, to desire to be, or to have |
| Tongan | Fia-fia | Delight, gladness, joy; pleased, delighted; conceit or pride arising from rank, abilities, extraordinary actions, &c. |
| Tongan | Fia-ky | Hunger, hungry |
| Tongan | Fichi | To fillip, to snap with the fingers |
| Tongan | Fucca-fichi | To apologize Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Tongan | Fi-fie | Firewood, fuel |
| Tongan | Fiha | How many? |
| Tongan | Fili | To select, to choose, to guess; a choice; to strive, to search; an adversary, to contend with |
| Tongan | Fili | An adversary |
| Tongan | Fili | To strive, to search, to contend with |
| Tongan | Fili/hi | To overturn, to make topsy-turvy, upset |
| Tongan | Fili/ange | To throw over, to turn on one side |
| Tongan | Filo | Thread, string; the perinaeum |
| Tongan | Fioo | To satiate, to have enough of; satisfied, tired of |
| Tongan | Fitoo | The numeral seven |
| Tongan | Foa | To burst, to crack, to break to pieces |
| Tongan | Foccatoó | On end, endwise, to set up on end; to heap up, to collect together, to jumble together, to amass |
| Tongan | Foffolla | To unfold, to spread out |
| Tongan | Fofonga | The visage or countenance, appearance; a feature of the face |
| Tongan | Foha. Fawha. | A son. Offspring, son or daughter. |
| Tongan | Fohe | A paddle |
| Tongan | Fohi-fohi | To peel, to strip off as bark &c. |
| Tongan | Foi | Cowardice |
| Tongan | Foi. Foi oofi. Foi níoo. | One, or rather a whole, bulk, ball, or head. One yam. One coconut. |
| Tongan | Foký | A species of the lizard |
| Tongan | Foli | Round about, encircling; to circumvent, to surround; to spread about (as vegetation) |
| Tongan | Folo | To swallow |
| Tongan | Fonno | To inlay |
| Tongan | Fonnooa | Land, clime, country round about, a people |
| Tongan | Fono | A public harangue on matters, generally of civil policy; also a decree made on such occasions |
| Tongan | Fono | The food that is eaten at cava parties; also the act of eating it |
| Tongan | Fononga | A walk, a journey by land, a jaunt |
| Tongan | Fonongo | Hark! to listen, to harken |
| Tongan | Fonoo | A turtle |
| Tongan | Foo | To clap the hollow palms of the hands together |
| Tongan | Foo-aców | The vegetable kingdom, a tree, a plant |
| Tongan | Fua | Fruit, blossom; bearing fruit |
| Tongan | Fooa | To carry a parcel, or burden |
| Tongan | Fooa | The shape; size, dimensions |
| Tongan | Fooa-fooa | A pimple, any eruption on the skin, a carbuncle, &c. |
| Tongan | Foóa/fooánga | Pumice-stone |
| Tongan | Foochi | To haul, to pull; to deplume (as to pluck a fowl) |
| Tongan | Foochi, fooji | The plantain |
| Tongan | Fooe | A whisk used to keep off flies |
| Tongan | Foofoó | To hide, to conceal, to disguise; retired, hidden, snug, concealed, disguised |
| Tongan | Foo/foola, foola | Swollen, protuberant, bloated, large-bellied; intumescence |
| Tongan | Foo/fooloo | To wash; lavation, washing |
| Tongan | Foohoo | Boxing |
| Tongan | Fooli | All (in number, not mass, or quantity of bulk) |
| Tongan | Fooloo | Hair of the body |
