Entries from Pratt 1911 in Pollex-Online
Pratt, G. (1911). Pratt's Grammar & Dictionary of the Samoan Language. Apia, Western Samoa, Malua Printing Press.
Language | Item | Description |
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Samoan | Saa | Verbal particle which sets a process or action in an imperfect tense (Mnr) |
Samoan | Saa | Sacred, taboo, forbidden, set apart |
Samoan | Saa | A particle used before names of persons signifying "the family of" |
Samoan | Sae | (Of skin) tear off, strip off; divide a pig into narrow strips; skin n. |
Samoan | Saele | Swing the arms in walking |
Samoan | Safe | Pannus menstrualis |
Samoan | Safea | To be struck; to be removed, as a disease, to be choked |
Samoan | Aafu | Waterfall b Problematic |
Samoan | Saga | To face, to be opposite |
Samoan | Saga | Flipper of a turtle |
Samoan | Sai | Tightly-bound bundle; pigsty |
Samoan | Saʔa | Dance |
Samoan | Saʔa | Short-legged dwarf |
Samoan | Saka | To boil food. Phonologically Irregular |
Samoan | ʔAu/saʔalo/ | Wooden seat to which scraper is fixed |
Samoan | Saʔato | (Acrostichum sp.) growing in swampy ground near sea |
Samoan | Saʔe | Elevate one leg as in falling in club match |
Samoan | Saʔe | Heel over, overturn (of a canoe) |
Samoan | Sa/saʔe/ | Upset a boat |
Samoan | Saʔi/na | Be thrown down, as a burden of food brought as a present; pull a man down backwards by his burden; break down (as trees by the wind) |
Samoan | Saaʔili | Look for, search for |
Samoan | Saʔo | Straight, erect, tall, long, correct, to be |
Samoan | Saʔulaa | Swordfish |
Samoan | Saʔul/ele | Sawfish |
Samoan | Sala | Wrong, incorrect |
Samoan | Sala | Continually, without intermission (preposed) |
Samoan | Sa(sa)la | Lop or cut off |
Samoan | Sali | To scoop out (e.g. meat from Coconut), skim (e.g. milk); uppercut (in boxing) |
Samoan | Salii | A small fish (Atherina sp.) (Mnr |
Samoan | Saalo | Rub smooth with scraper |
Samoan | Salu | Scrape out, brush up (as rubbish) |
Samoan | Sama | Give property to wife's family |
Samoan | Sama/ faʔatutuila | Marry after living in concubinage |
Samoan | Sama | Colour the skin with turmeric ; turmeric powder mixed with oil and used as a remedy for scabies |
Samoan | Sami | Sea |
Samoan | Sami-lolo | A dish made of coconut and salt-water |
Samoan | Samu | Eat scraps |
Samoan | Samu/ti | To eat (a jocular term) Problematic |
Samoan | Sana | Diarrhoea |
Samoan | Sana | Corn (Zea sp.) |
Samoan | Sana/sana | A herb; Job's Tears (Coix sp.) |
Samoan | Sao | To enter where there was a difficulty, as a canoe in a narrow passage; to escape from danger |
Samoan | Sao | To collect |
Samoan | Saapa | Be unequal, incline to one side, as a paddle larger on one side than the other; sun more west than east; night more than half gone Problematic |
Samoan | Sapai | Hold in palms of hands, take in the arms |
Samoan | Saapatu | Name of a fish |
Samoan | Sapatuu | Barracuda (Sphyraena sp.) |
Samoan | Sape | Malformed (of foot) |
Samoan | Vae sape | Deformed foot |
Samoan | Sapo | To catch anything thrown, as breadfruits in a basket when being picked; as a dog with his mouth; as in a hand-net, the fishes jumping from the large net; to catch up a word, in order to answer it |