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 | Fono | A public harangue on matters, generally of civil policy; also a decree made on such occasions |
| Tongan | Fono | The food that is eaten at cava parties; also the act of eating it |
| Tongan | Fononga | A walk, a journey by land, a jaunt |
| Tongan | Fonongo | Hark! to listen, to harken |
| Tongan | Fonoo | A turtle |
| Tongan | Foo | To clap the hollow palms of the hands together |
| Tongan | Foo-aców | The vegetable kingdom, a tree, a plant |
| Tongan | Fua | Fruit, blossom; bearing fruit |
| Tongan | Fooa | To carry a parcel, or burden |
| Tongan | Fooa | The shape; size, dimensions |
| Tongan | Fooa-fooa | A pimple, any eruption on the skin, a carbuncle, &c. |
| Tongan | Foóa/fooánga | Pumice-stone |
| Tongan | Fooanga | A grindstone, a whetstone |
| Tongan | Foochi | To haul, to pull; to deplume (as to pluck a fowl) |
| Tongan | Foochi, fooji | The plantain |
| Tongan | Fooe | A whisk used to keep off flies |
| Tongan | Foofoó | To hide, to conceal, to disguise; retired, hidden, snug, concealed, disguised |
| Tongan | Foo/foola, foola | Swollen, protuberant, bloated, large-bellied; intumescence |
| Tongan | Foo/fooloo | To wash; lavation, washing |
| Tongan | Foohoo | Boxing |
| Tongan | Fooli | All (in number, not mass, or quantity of bulk) |
| Tongan | Fooloo | Hair of the body |
| Tongan | Fooloo-fooloo | Hairy |
| Tongan | Foonga | The beach; the deck of a vessel; the top or summit of a hill where it is flat; the top of any thing |
| Tongan | Foo-o | Afresh, anew, new |
| Tongan | Foo-ó-vaca | To build canoes |
| Tongan | Fooö/hági | To lie along on the ground with the face upwards |
| Tongan | Foota | To boast |
| Tongan | Foote | Effort; to strive with muscular energy, to struggle |
| Tongan | Fota | The ceremony of pressing a chief's foot upon the belly of a person taboo'd; also, their method of compressing the skin to relieve pain |
| Tongan | Fotoo manáva | The right auricle of the heart |
| Tongan | Fow | A frontlet, a fillet round the forehead, headband, a turban of any sort |
| Tongan | Fow | A substance used to wring out cava ,&c. |
| Tongan | Fow/agi | To load, to freight, &c. as a basket, a canoe |
| Tongan | Fucca | To make, to fashion, to cause to be done |
| Tongan | Fy | A fish called the sting-ray |
| Tongan | Fygnata | Difficult, arduous |
| Tongan | Fygnofooa | Easy to be accomplished, easy |
| Tongan | Fytoca | A grave or burying-place |
| Tongan | Fucca-fe-tai | To thank |
| Tongan | Fucca-hoohoo | To suckle |
| Tongan | Fucca-láä | To bask in the sun; insolation, exposure to the sun |
| Tongan | Fucca-ma | To abash |
| Tongan | Fucca-manga | To open the mouth, to gape, to gasp |
| Tongan | Fucca-mata | To sharpen |
| Tongan | Fucca-nofo | To seat, or cause to sit |
| Tongan | Fucca-afoo-mate | The name of the ninth lunar month |
| Tongan | Fucca-afoo-möoói | The name of the tenth lunar month |
| Tongan | Fucca-ofa | To caress, to fondle |
| Tongan | Fucca-áta | To aim |
