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 | 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 | Tulaga | Platform, stage |
Samoan | Tuuta | To beach a boat |
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 | Tale | Cough (n,v) |
Samoan | Tua/a/mata | Eyelid. Eyebrow (Mnr). Upper eyelid (McP). |
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 |