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 | Moʔo | The name of a fish |
Samoan | Moʔo/tai | The name of a fish, and in some places also of a sea snake (Pelamis bicolor). Name given to fishes belonging to genera Coris and Malacanthus (Mnr). |
Samoan | Maloaa | To be a great talker; to get no bonito; to be free from visitors Uncertain Semantic Connection |
Samoan | Mata/tupa | Blunt Phonologically Irregular |
Samoan | Foemuli | A steering paddle; to steer |
Samoan | Maagamaga | Branched, forked |
Samoan | Leva | Long, of time; to be long since |
Samoan | Laafu/lafu | Dingy, dusky, as the body for want of oiling |
Samoan | Lafu/lafu (adv. lafulafu/aa) | Barren, unproductive, exhausted (of land) |
Samoan | Vili | The name of a game hazard; applied to lots |
Samoan | Uli | Sprouts from the taro |
Samoan | Ula | Term of respect to a woman Problematic |
Samoan | Maua | Get, obtain, acquire |
Samoan | Vaia | To be wet. Watery (Mnr). |
Samoan | Faʔaite/ite | A prodigy, as a monster with three legs |
Samoan | Fiamoe | To be sleepy |
Samoan | Mate | To die away, of wind |
Samoan | Ea | To return home, as war captives. Free, release (from bondage, famine etc.) (Mnr). |
Samoan | ʔAiga/mea | A part of some food, as part of a joint of meat; a contemptuous term for a diseased person |
Samoan | ʔAiga | The act of eating; a meal (a foreign application of the word). Meal, feast (Mnr). |
Samoan | ʔElo | Reddish-brown (regarded as a mark of beauty in those whose skins are thus) |
Samoan | Fenuu | Make a join in plaiting etc. |
Samoan | Matamuli | Shamefaced Uncertain Semantic Connection |
Samoan | Oe | To say, yes Problematic |
Samoan | Ofo | To be astonished, to wonder; to salute on meeting; to shout before a fight; the first speech made on presenting food to visitors |
Samoan | Puou | One kind of breadfruit |
Samoan | Puoso | The part of a canoe under the half-deck |
Samoan | Lagi | Customs observed on the death of a chief |
Samoan | Lagi | To call out the different portions of food at a feast, and for whom intended |
Samoan | Lagi/i | The head of a chief |
Samoan | Lima/tusi | The forefinger |
Samoan | Loma | To be quiet, to cease, to intermit (as the wind, war, etc); to desist, in the tattooing process; to wait to see who would have the first cup of *'ava* |
Samoan | Lufa | A large black siapo Uncertain Semantic Connection |
Samoan | Taaʔele | To open a dead body to search for the disease, so that by taking out the diseased part and burning it, the disease itself may be destroyed, and not enter another of the family |
Samoan | Maatofi | To be quartered, as the moon in the last quarter |
Samoan | Laʔau | Wood, timber; firewood (Tutuila); a club; a small axe |
Samoan | Laʔau/taa | A stick for striking the sea to drive fishes into a net |
Samoan | Faifeʔau | To go on a message; a missionary, a pastor |
Samoan | Taiʔa | To fish for *palolo*, *lo*, *pala'ia* and *inaga*. |
Samoan | Saualiʔi | A god. The respectful term for an *aitu*. (po.) Ghost, spirit (Mnr). Uncertain Semantic Connection |
Samoan | Fiainu | Thirst; to thirst |
Samoan | Tausoa | A burden carried on a stick by two; to carry a burden between two persons |
Samoan | Tautasi | To be one, alone, as the egg of a pigeon or an only child |
Samoan | Maaliga/liga | The temples |
Samoan | Alu | To go |
Samoan | Aleale | Young coconut in which the kernel is just beginning to form |
Samoan | Auamo | To carry a dead chief about on a bier Uncertain Semantic Connection |
Samoan | Laumanu/ina | To have praise or blame shouted after one Uncertain Semantic Connection |
Samoan | Lauʔava | Food eaten on the burial of a chief |
Samoan | Velo | Afterdeck of a bonito-canoe |