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 | Cálo | To turn aside an arrow; or to parry any weapon |
| Tongan | Calo/a | A cockle |
| Tongan | Camo | To give the wink; to hint by nodding the head |
| Tongan | Cana | Sponge, spongy |
| Tongan | Canahe | The fish called mullet |
| Tongan | Ca/nái/fý́ | To be sure! certainly! |
| Tongan | Cananga | Any phrase, proverbial expression; cant word |
| Tongan | Cani | If; in case that (used only in respect to time past) |
| Tongan | Cano | The inmost substance of any thing, particularly kernels of fruit; also flesh |
| Tongan | Cano he matta | The eyeball |
| Tongan | Cano matte | Lean of flesh |
| Tongan | Capa | A siege; to besiege |
| Tongan | Capa/chia | To assault, to besiege |
| Tongan | Cápaców | The wing of a bird |
| Tongan | Capów | If (used only when speaking of time present or future) |
| Tongan | Cappa-cappa | To flap the wings with a noise, as a bird |
| Tongan | Cata | To laugh |
| Tongan | Catagi | Patience, sufferance; to endure, to suffer |
| Tongan | Cato | A bag; a basket |
| Tongan | Catooanga | A feast, feasting and jollity; to give a feast |
| Tongan | Cava | The pepper plant; also the root of this plant |
| Tongan | Cava | The beard |
| Tongan | Cave | A handle or sling to a basket |
| Tongan | Cavenga | Burden, load, freight of a canoe or other vessel |
| Tongan | Cawle | To beg; to request |
| Tongan | Cawna | Bitter; brackish |
| Tongan | Cawna | Intoxicated |
| Tongan | Chi | The name of a plant |
| Tongan | Chi | To throw, or cast away gently, to toss |
| Tongan | Chichi | An ornamental dress round the waist for either sex, made generally of leaves of the chi tree |
| Tongan | Chiagi | To throw away, to leave, to separate from a wife or husband, to divorce |
| Tongan | Chibi | A slap, a blow from a club; a particular kind of club |
| Tongan | Chicotá | A species of bird; a particular kind of club |
| Tongan | Coocoo | The muscle (shellfish) |
| Tongan | Chifa | A mother o'pearl shell, worn as an ornament by men, upon the breast, hanging by a string round the neck |
| Tongan | Chike | To sit on the haunches |
| Tongan | Chila | The sprits of a canoe |
| Tongan | Chili | To cast a hand-net |
| Tongan | Cobenga chili | A hand-net |
| Tongan | Chinifoo | The wife of a king, or superior chief |
| Tongan | Chino | The body, the trunk of a tree; figure, or form of any thing, dimension, size |
| Tongan | Chiod/ófa | A term of friendly salutation..; also a term of pity, as, poor fellow! |
| Tongan | Co | A particle very frequently used in the Tonga language... |
| Tongan | Co | Uncircumcised |
| Tongan | Coa. Fucca coa. | Froth, foam. To spume, to froth. |
| Tongan | Coa Papalangi | Soap |
| Tongan | Cobenga | Any kind of net |
| Tongan | Cobechi | The leaves of the paoanga, dried and embroidered with the fibres of the cocoa-nut husk, so as to form an instrument for imprinting gnatoo |
| Tongan | Coca | A brownish red juice, from the bark of a tree also called coca...used to stain or dye gnatoo with |
| Tongan | Cochi | To cut with scissars; to cut the hair of the head |
