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 | Tagaa/tiʔa/ | A game which consists in darting a light stick along the ground |
Samoan | Tiʔe/tiʔe | Ride, sit astride; be placed upon, lie on; sit (on chair); seated on something above the ground, to be |
Samoan | Tiʔitiʔi | Son of Taraga (Turner 1888.209) |
Samoan | Tiʔo | Defecate |
Samoan | Tiʔotala | Kingfisher (Halcyon spp.) |
Samoan | Tila | Mast, yardarm, sprit |
Samoan | Tili | Fish with a small net , with casting net; a message sent in haste to summon relatives in case of sickness |
Samoan | Tilo/tilo | Peep, spy, survey, watch |
Samoan | Timu | Rain |
Samoan | Tina | To split with a wedge |
Samoan | Tinae | The entrails of a fish |
Samoan | Tinei | Put out, erase, crush |
Samoan | Tinaa | Mother Phonologically Irregular |
Samoan | Tini | (Pass) the finishing post, (reach) the goal |
Samoan | Tini | Shouts of praise on the marriage of a chief to a lady. Kind of traditional poem chanted as a chorus, esp by the chief orator and a party from the bridegroom's village, in honour of the bride. A song sung on the occasion of the marriage of a maanaia to a taaupoou (Macpherson). |
Samoan | Tinifu | Name given to all the women and children of one village the non-combatants, including women and children, sick and aged |
Samoan | Tino | The body, as of a man, beast, tree, canoe &c. |
Samoan | Tino | Ten, in counting men or bonito |
Samoan | Tino | To be certain; certainly |
Samoan | -tino | Suffix to some verbs: intensive |
Samoan | Ti/tino | (postposed) Definitely |
Samoan | Tio | Shellfish species |
Samoan | Tipa | Jump (of stone skimming water) |
Samoan | Tipi | Axe |
Samoan | Tipi | Play ducks and drakes |
Samoan | Tiputa | A woman's upper garment (introduced from Tahiti) Borrowed |
Samoan | Titi | A girdle of tii leaves |
Samoan | Too | To plant |
Samoan | Too | Conceive, be with child |
Samoan | Maʔi/too/ | Pregnancy |
Samoan | Tii/too | Headlong, head foremost |
Samoan | To | Reach for and get , remove, take down |
Samoan | Too/too/mamala | To belch |
Samoan | Toa | (Casuarina sp.) |
Samoan | Toa | Brave |
Samoan | Toafa | Bare of trees, barren; the name of one of the two gods that controlled rain (Turner 1884) |
Samoan | Toe | Remain, be left, again |
Samoan | Toe | Preposed particle: Again; more |
Samoan | Tofa | Stick used to spread hot oven stones |
Samoan | Tofe | Mollusc (Perna sp.) |
Samoan | Tofi | Split, divide, cleave |
Samoan | Tofu | (Of each person) have or give a stated and equal number of things . Be distributed to each, to have each a portion; to be all supplied |
Samoan | Toga | South wind |
Samoan | Tooga | Fine mat, most valuable object in Samoan society ; property (an adopted child was regarded as tooga (Turner 1888) .> Borrowed |
Samoan | Togafiti | A scheme, device, means, remedy; to devise means . Treat (give medical treatment to); attend, fix up; remedy; device, scheme, prank, trick (Mnr). |
Samoan | Togi | Mark, carve |
Samoan | Togi | Peck |
Samoan | Toso (pass. toosina) | To drag; to draw, draw in (influence) |
Samoan | Toi | A medium-sized tree (Alphitonia zizyphoides) |
Samoan | Toʔa | A rock rising near to the surface of the sea on which a canoe may strike; to strike on a rock, to ground, as a canoe |