Entries from Martin 1827 in Pollex-Online
Martin, J. (1827). An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean, with an original grammar and vocabulary of their language, compiled and arranged from the extensive communications of Mr.William Mariner, several years reside in those islands. Edinburgh, Constable and Co.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Tongan | Tooloo. Too/tooloo. Tooloo-tooloo. Tooloo/i. | To drop, like water. Dropping off, or out of (as a fluid); to be permeable to water, as the roof of a house when the rain drops through. Instillation. To drop into (any fluid dropt into the eyes, &c. to abate inflammation). |
| Tongan | Tooloo-tooloo | Eaves of a house |
| Tongan | Toonga | A pile, or heap; a row of plantain or banana trees; a sign of the plural number of animated beings |
| Tongan | Toonga | The core of fruits, a knot in wood, a kernel, the seed of plants |
| Tongan | Toonga | A ladder |
| Tongan | Toonoo | To broil |
| Tongan | Tootanga | A block, a large piece or slice of any thing |
| Tongan | Toótoo | Heat, ignition; to burn, kindle, boil |
| Tongan | Toótoo | The bark of the Chinese paper mulberry tree |
| Tongan | Too-ý | Dilatory, slow |
| Tongan | To/toca | Slow; softly, quietly |
| Tongan | Totý | A sailor, a fisherman; to fish |
| Tongan | Tow-mooa | The stem of a vessel |
| Tongan | Tow | The year, a season, the produce of a season |
| Tongan | Tow | Fit, to suit |
| Tongan | Tow | To barter, to trade |
| Tongan | Tow. Tow-tow. | To excern, or squeeze out. To wring as a sponge. |
| Tongan | Tow | To reach or extend to |
| Tongan | Tow, toia | To meet one's expectations of profit in the act of bartering, or trading |
| Tongan | Towgete | The first born, either male or female |
| Tongan | Towla | An anchor, a cable |
| Tongan | Towlanga | An anchorage |
| Tongan | Twawfa | A heath, a common |
| Tongan | Twenga. Tooenga, toénga, twenga. | Remainder. Residual. |
| Tongan | Va | A piece (applied to wood, or trees) |
| Tongan | Vaca | A ship, vessel, or canoe |
| Tongan | Vaca-fawha | A boil |
| Tongan | Vaca vaca | The side of a man, or any animal |
| Tongan | Vacký | To heed, to inspect, to search, to be provident; look! behold! lo! |
| Tongan | Vacoo | To claw, to scratch |
| Tongan | Vahe | To parcel, to divide; to separate, or be separated, as two combatanta; parted from |
| Tongan | Vala | Apparel, dress |
| Tongan | Valoo | The numeral eight |
| Tongan | Vaoo | A bush, wood, thicket |
| Tongan | Váooa | Uncultivated (as land); overrun with weeds; fallow |
| Tongan | Vave, vavea | Speed, velocity; quick, swift-footed, brisk |
| Tongan | Vela | Calid, hot; to scald |
| Tongan | Velo | Jaculation, projection (as of a spear); also to launch, or to slide along |
| Tongan | Vete | To unrol, to loosen, to untie; to despoil, to divest, to plunder, to dispossess of, to pillage; booty, plunder |
| Tongan | Vili | A gimlet |
| Tongan | Vow-vow | To scrape |
| Tongan | Vy | Water, liquid, fluidity, juice, a pond, any thing serous or watery |
| Tongan | Vy tafe | A river, a brook |
| Tongan | Vy-mooa | The third lunar month |
| Tongan | Vy-mooi | The fourth lunar month, or second rainy month |
| Tongan | Vy-vy | Weak, debilitated, faint |
| Tongan | Wo | To go, to proceed, used in a plural sens |
| Tongan | Y. Y-anga. | To put, to place, to deposit. A case, a sheath. |
| Tongan | Y-toa! | Serve you right! you deserve it! I am glad of it! |
| Tongan | Be | Only, alone, solely, by oneself; never otherwise than |
