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 | 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 | Tulaga | Platform, stage |
| Samoan | Tuuta | To beach a boat |
| Samoan | Sau | A present of cooked food |
| 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 | Tulilima | Elbow |
| Samoan | Amoga | A burden; the name of the stars which form the belt of Orion |
| Samoan | Vao matua | Dense, thick forest |
| Samoan | Fetuulele | A shooting star, a meteor |
| Samoan | Palolo/muli | The name of a month: Juiy-August |
| Samoan | Taulu/alofi, Taulua/tuafanua | Names of stars |
| Samoan | Otaota | Rubbish; filth, ordure |
| 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) |
| Samoan | Faʔasiʔu/gutu | To talk to a person and look away from him, as in anger Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Samoan | Solo | Wipe (esp. body) |
| Samoan | Manavasee | Fearful |
| Samoan | Ute | The tail part of a shell-fish |
| Samoan | Tafoʔi | To return |
| Samoan | Talanoa | To chat, converse together; to talk nonsense; to act thoughtlessly and carelessly |
| Samoan | Vaoa | Overgrown with weeds |
| Samoan | Sunuʔi | To thrust in, as a stick into the ground |
| Samoan | Paogo | The name of a tree, from the leaves of which a house mat is made (Pandanus odoratissimus) |
| Samoan | ʔAumea | An associate; to participate with another as a friend |
| Samoan | Soni | A water-bottle |
| Samoan | Loa | The name of an introduced tree (Bixa orellana) |
| Samoan | Totonu | In the midst, within |
| Samoan | Mamana | To desire, to love (of the sexes) |
| Samoan | Maasima | Salt (from Fiji) |
| Samoan | Taaga | The motion of the hands in dancing. Gesture, movement (Mnr). |
| Samoan | Tauala | To luff, to keep close to the wind |
| Samoan | Taufa | Water (chief's word) Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Samoan | Fai | To say, to speak |
| Samoan | Sulumaʔi | To thrust, or push through, or into, as the oso into a thicket to hide it |
| Samoan | Sulumaʔi/a | To be thrust or plunged into, as as the bows of a canoe into the waves, or a person carried headlong by the waves into a cave, or one falling headlong into a hole; to die suddenly, after previous good health |
| Samoan | Lole/lole | To do a thing anyhow |
| Samoan | Lole | To rub smooth, as breadfruit in making taufolo; to rub, as a fallen adversary in the dirt; to be beaten, as a canoe in racing |
