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 |
---|---|---|
Samoan | Ui/a | Go along, tread upon, go by way of, follow a road to |
Samoan | Faʔailo | To make known, to show |
Samoan | Faʔailoga | A sign, a mark; to mark, to distinguish |
Samoan | Pale/pale | To hold up |
Samoan | Palepale | A shelf made of sticks |
Samoan | Paaletua | A stick for the steersman to lean against |
Samoan | ʔEʔega | Anything used to help a swimmer, as a lifebelt; a number of snakes all coiled together |
Samoan | Pute | The navel Phonologically Irregular |
Samoan | Mataavai | A spring, a fountain |
Samoan | Loo/loo | To be wet, as the clothes |
Samoan | Pati | To clap hands; to smite the hands together, a sign of grief on receiving bad news; also in wonder and joy |
Samoan | Saaʔee | A naked dance |
Samoan | Leai | No, not. Be lacking, absent; be none (Mnr). |
Samoan | Pau | To be as far as, to reach to, to be bounded by |
Samoan | Mafasi | Cracked (skin) |
Samoan | Faaulua/lua | To bind two together, as two canoes &c. |
Samoan | Tamaaloa | Man (a term of familiarity) |
Samoan | Faagono | Tale intermingled with song; (interjection) applied to a boaster Phonologically Irregular |
Samoan | Tagi | Make a characteristic noise |
Samoan | Faoa/ʔaʔai | Village, or portion of a town |
Samoan | O | To penetrate, as a spear into the body; to go deep down, as a stick stuck into the ground, and meeting with no obstacle |
Samoan | Poi | A game on mud flats |
Samoan | Pe/peʔe | Crippled by warts on the soles of the feet |
Samoan | Segi | Wild, shy, not tame |
Samoan | Tausi | Take care of, nurse; observe, keep as a command. Wife of an orator or tulafale (McP). |
Samoan | Mea | To do, to prepare |
Samoan | Pogaiisu | The nostrils |
Samoan | Faʔa/saga | Face towards, attend to, set to, get on with |
Samoan | Tuulaʔi | Rise up, stand up |
Samoan | Gaa/gaʔe | Eastward, a little towards the east |
Samoan | Misi/alofa | Click tongue as a sign of pity or sympathy |
Samoan | Muʔa/muʔa | (of trees, young person) Green, immature |
Samoan | Afu/a | A feast made when the wife becomes pregnant |
Samoan | Magamaga/alima | The divisions between the fingers |
Samoan | Magamaga/ava | The divisions between the toes |
Samoan | Talatala | Prickly, rough |
Samoan | Tupu | Units in counting above tens and hundreds |
Samoan | Palolo/mua | The name of a month, June-July |
Atiu | Palolo/muli | The name of a month, July-August |
Samoan | Mulifaa | The name of a month, August-September |
Samoan | Taapuni | To shut |
Samoan | Maalooloo | To rest; to be recovered from sickness, to be well |
Samoan | Maili(ili) | To commence to blow, to spring up as a breeze |
Samoan | Mataasusu | A teat. Nipple (McP). |
Samoan | Guu/guu | To be dumb |
Samoan | See/muu | The dragon-fly |
Samoan | ʔAilao | The act of fencing with, or flourishing, a club; to brandish the club |
Samoan | Aputi | The husk; the sheath or covering of the young leaf (stipule) |
Samoan | Faʔafua | To rise, as a groundswell, or a wave, but not to break |
Samoan | Toʔo | A stand in which is placed the perch of a pigeon |