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 | Pui/pui | Door, partition |
Samoan | Puiaʔi | A place sheltered from the wind |
Samoan | Faʔaoti | To kill one already dying |
Samoan | Faʔatoo | To give over, as land sold or given; to curse Uncertain Semantic Connection |
Samoan | Faʔasusu | To suckle, give the breast to |
Samoan | Tuli | An outside corner, as of a box, house &c.; any joint or bend |
Samoan | La/lala | Pudend. muliebr. Uncertain Semantic Connection |
Samoan | Tafili | To fly a pigeon; to go about on many errands Uncertain Semantic Connection |
Samoan | Fulufulumata | The eyebrow |
Samoan | Puʔu/puʔu | Short |
Samoan | Faʔatonu | Put right |
Samoan | Faʔatonu | Direct, instruct |
Samoan | Faʔatupu | To cause to grow |
Samoan | Faʔatupu | Cause, originate (quarrel etc.) |
Samoan | Faʔatupu | Raise a post by filling the hole underneath it with earth |
Samoan | Faʔatupu | Change into |
Samoan | ʔAi/fanua | A tenant, a person cultivating another person's land |
Samoan | Faʔamata | To sharpen |
Samoan | Mao- | Prefix used with locative bases to indicate "further in the direction of" |
Samoan | Tulaga | Platform, stage |
Samoan | Tutaga | The place to cut off a part of a tree |
Samoan | Tuuta | To beach a boat |
Samoan | Sua | To rise, of the tide |
Samoan | Sau | A present of cooked food |
Samoan | Ogo (pass. ogotia) | Scorching, of the sun; painful, of a disease; cutting, of words; severe, as a fine |
Samoan | Ala/faga | A morning angling |
Samoan | Ala/fia | To be hurt by joining in another’s quarrel, or through one’s own fault Uncertain Semantic Connection |
Samoan | Moʔo/moʔo | The name of a disease. Class of illness (McP). Uncertain Semantic Connection |
Samoan | Muli | The rump (euph. for ufa). Posterior, bottom (of man) (vulg.) (Mnr). Buttocks (McP). |
Samoan | Musu | Sullenness |
Samoan | Tale | Cough (n,v) |
Samoan | Tona/tona/a/feʔe | One kind of wart. Kind of pimple or wart on a limb swollen by elephantiasis. |
Samoan | Tulilima | Elbow |
Samoan | Amoga | A burden; the name of the stars which form the belt of Orion |
Samoan | Vao matua | Dense, thick forest |
Samoan | Oloamanu. O-loa-manu. | The name of a Samoan month: May-June. A star and month name (Jmr). |
Samoan | Fetuulele | A shooting star, a meteor |
Samoan | Mataliliki | To be finely plaited, as a mat or hat; to have small meshes, as a net |
Samoan | Palolo/muli | The name of a month: Juiy-August |
Samoan | Taulu/alofi, Taulua/tuafanua | Names of stars |
Samoan | Pouli | To be darkened, dim |
Samoan | Otaota | Rubbish; filth, ordure |
Samoan | Otai | A native dish of food. |
Samoan | Meʔe/meʔe | To rejoice Problematic |
Samoan | Anaga | A joke, a jest |
Samoan | ʔAnomate, ʔanogase | The lean part of flesh |
Samoan | Atoaga | Property given on occasion of a death; property given to one who saves another in war; property given to redeem the life of a prisoner of war Uncertain Semantic Connection |
Samoan | Tipi | To give a back handed blow; to play "duck and drake" |
Samoan | Faiumu | To make or cook a baking of food; a cook |
Samoan | Futa/mea | Fat to excess (of pigeons and jocularly of men) |