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 | Fa | The numeral four |
| Tongan | Fa | Hoarse |
| Tongan | Fa | Capable of; apt to be or to do; ready at; skilled |
| Tongan | Fa | Industrious in agriculture |
| Tongan | Fa-boole | Eloquent |
| Tongan | Fa-cawle | Importunate |
| Tongan | Fachi, fetchi | To break; to dislocate; to sprain; broken; disjointed. To break, to starve, to snap in two, split |
| Tongan | Fáë | Mother |
| Tongan | Fáëfine | The armpit |
| Tongan | Fa/eho | A stinking breath |
| Tongan | Fáële | Parturition; childbirth; also the period of confinement |
| Tongan | Fá-fá | To feel, to grope about |
| Tongan | Fáfa | To carry on the back |
| Tongan | Fa/fanga | To feed; to nourish; to supply with food |
| Tongan | Fa/fango | To whisper |
| Tongan | Fafango | To awaken |
| Tongan | Fafaoo | To fill up, to stuff full, to load, to burthen |
| Tongan | Fa/fatoo | To curl, to fold up |
| Tongan | Fafine | A woman, a female of any animal, a daughter |
| Tongan | Táca/bé | Unmarried (applied only to females), whether a widow or not |
| Tongan | Ohana | A husband or wife, a spouse, a married person; to marry |
| Tongan | Matooa. Motooa. Fafine motooa. | An old man. Age, old, state; (of bread-fruit, yams, &c.) full-grown, ripe; to wear away with age. An old woman, a widow, also a wife. |
| Tongan | Fooági | To make a present; to give; given |
| Tongan | Gnaoóë | Employment, work |
| Tongan | Fagnawta. Fangawta. | Shell fish of any kind, to gather shell fish. Shell-fish, the act of picking up shell-fish on the beach at low water. |
| Tongan | Fahe, fahe-fahe | To split, to rend, cracked, broken, separated off |
| Tongan | Fäíte | The posture in which the women sit on the ground, not cross-legged as the men, but with the legs doubled up on one side |
| Tongan | Fáïva, fyiva | Knack, dexterity, slight of hand |
| Tongan | Fala | A mat to sleep on |
| Tongan | Faligi, falligi | To pave, to floor |
| Tongan | Falle | A house |
| Tongan | Faló | To stretch in point of length |
| Tongan | Fananga | A fable, a fictitious tale |
| Tongan | Fanga | Beach, shore |
| Tongan | Fango | Oil of any kind |
| Tongan | Fango-fango | To blow the nose, also flutes blown by the nose |
| Tongan | Fanna | A mast |
| Tongan | Fanna | To shoot as with a gun or bow |
| Tongan | Fanna-fonnooa | Great guns, ord[n]ance, cannon |
| Tongan | Fánów | Pregnancy, childbirth |
| Tongan | Fánów | Progeny, offspring, to bring forth young |
| Tongan | Fáö | A peg, a nail |
| Tongan | Faoo | To take away by main force, or by virtue of superior rank or authority |
| Tongan | Faoo | To load, to burthen, to stock with |
| Tongan | Fata | A shelf, a loft; a hand-barrow |
| Tongan | Fata fata | The chest, the thorax |
| Tongan | Fátongía | A tax, impost, work to be done to discharge a tax |
| Tongan | Fatoo | To fold or wrap up; furl (sail); a bale |
| Tongan | Toola. Fa/toola. | Bald, bald-headed. Beardless. |
| Tongan | Fatoo | The stomach |
