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 | Tafatoo | A perpendicular steep, as seen from above |
Samoan | Tafa | The side of a hill; to turn on one side |
Samoan | Taʔavili | To turn round, as a mill, a drill, &c. |
Samoan | Tali | Receive |
Samoan | Tali | Answer |
Samoan | ʔAusulu | Axe (so called before chiefs) |
Samoan | Ti/tino | (postposed) Definitely |
Samoan | Tino | To be certain; certainly |
Samoan | -tino | Suffix to some verbs: intensive |
Samoan | Mili/ga | Sowing by rubbing between the fingers, as tobacco seed |
Samoan | Milo/si | Be twisted; cross-grained, perverse |
Samoan | Mi/milo | Be perverse, act contrarily |
Samoan | Mio | Wander about, go round about |
Samoan | Mioi | Act perversely |
Samoan | Mi/mio | Be confused, as a current at sea |
Samoan | Mi/mio | Be confused, as a current at sea |
Samoan | Tama/ʔi | The young of animals or plants |
Samoan | Puupuu | A sheath, a case |
Samoan | Vili/vili | To brandish, as a club |
Samoan | Viligia | To dry in the wind; to air; to cool in the wind |
Samoan | Avaʔe | Take up, carry on the shoulders |
Samoan | Maneʔe | To walk proudly |
Samoan | Maaneʔe | To begin to rise, as the tide, or the person sitting down |
Samoan | Lea | That Phonologically Irregular |
Samoan | Ga/gana | Speech, language; to speak to |
Samoan | Gana/gana | To be talked about, to be the subject of conversation |
Samoan | Gaana/gana | Talk, converse, chat |
Samoan | Momo/i | Broken remnants, crumbs |
Samoan | Moi/moi | Small fishes left in a net after the large ones are taken out |
Samoan | Moʔi/moʔi | Small |
Samoan | Lagai | Shoal of dolphins Uncertain Semantic Connection |
Samoan | Masagi | High, lifted up, as the eaves of a house. Rebound, fly up (Mnr). |
Samoan | Soe/ago | Fish sp. |
Samoan | Tau/nuʔu | To reach, to arrive at; to come to pass |
Samoan | ʔAfaga | The bandage put on the feet when climbing the cocoa-nut tree |
Samoan | Aʔega | A pole or beam, used for a ladder |
Samoan | ʔAnoʔano | The nest of the lago mumu [carpenter bee] |
Samoan | Fuai/ʔupu | A single sentiment in a speech |
Samoan | Fuaʔi/vai | A single water bottle |
Samoan | Pe/i | Break coconuts |
Samoan | Sano | To long for, be intent upon |
Samoan | Sala/i | To cut fastenings |
Samoan | Siʔi | To quote from a book |
Samoan | Suni | The piece of tutuga [paper mulberry bark] used as a sponge to take up scented cocoa-nut oil as it forms |
Samoan | Taafega | A freshet; to flow in a river |
Samoan | Aʔe | To go up, to return as from fishing; to return from banishment; to rise, as waves |
Samoan | Pea | Still, continually, yet (post-verbal) |
Samoan | Lee | Preposed particle not, do...not |
Samoan | Polapola | A double pola, used to carry food to chiefs; a flat-built canoe |
Samoan | Suoo | Spade, hoe, shovel |