Pasefika Polynesian Dictionary
English to Polynesian Dictionary
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Bamboo | ʻOfe Sāmoa | ʻOhe | Schizostachyum glaucifolium | |||
Banana | Faʻi | Maiʻa | Siaine | Maiʻa | Maika | Musa |
Banyan or small-leaved fig | ʻAoa | Ficus obliqua | ||||
Basket | Ato | ʻEke | ||||
Bat (Flying Fox) | Peʻa | ʻŌpeʻapeʻa | Peka | ʻIore Pererau | Pekapeka | Chiroptera |
Bay | Faga | Hana | Kōmaki | ʻŌʻoʻa | Whanga | |
Beach cabbage | Toʻi toʻi | Scaevola taccada | ||||
Beach heliotrope | Tausuni | Tornefortia argentea | ||||
Beach morning glory | Fue moa | Ipomoea pes-caprae | ||||
Beach pea | Fue sina | Vigna marina | ||||
Beach sunflower | Ateate | Wollastonia biflora | ||||
Birth | Fānau | Hānau | Fanauʻi | Fānau | Whānau | Parturition |
Bishop wood | ʻOʻa | Bischofia javanica | ||||
Bitter yam | Soi | Dioscorea bulbifera | ||||
Blacktip Reef Shark | Malie Alamata | Manō pāʻele | Carcharhinus melanopterus | |||
Bluespotted stingray | Fai Tala | Neotrygon kuhlii | ||||
Bottle Gourd | Ipu | Lagenaria siceraria | ||||
Breadfruit | ʻUlu | ʻUlu | Mei | ʻUru | Kuru | Artocarpus altilis |
Bring | ʻAumai | Lawe mai | ʻOmai | Āfaʻi | Mau | |
Brown noddy | Gogo | Anous stolidus | ||||
Burrowing Sea Urchin | Tuitui | Echinometra Mathaei |
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Welcome to the Pasefika Polynesian Dictionary. This dictionary is meant to be a comparative dictionary to quickly view similarities, differences and cognate relationships between words across Polynesian languages. The dictionary includes a format that will display english to polynesian translation into words from Sāmoan, Hawaiʻian, Tongan, Māori, and Tahitian languages.
Most knowledge in Polynesia was communicated and passed on through language, legends, and songs.
The Sāmoan alphabet constists of these letters
Sāmoan written Alphabet: A E F G I L M N O P S T U V (K H R are additonal)
Vowels in Sāmoan language
- A (ʻA A ʻĀ Ā) - pronounced (ˈä) AAh, like "AAh"
- E (ʻE E ʻĒ Ē) - pronounced (ˈe) Eh, like net
- I (ʻI I ʻĪ Ī) - pronounced (ē) EE, like see
- O (ʻO O ʻŌ Ō) - pronounced (ō) oh, like "Oh"
- U (ʻU U ʻŪ Ū) - pronounced (u̇(ə)) oo, like oops
- A glottal stop and/or macron indicate short, normal, long sound and/or a brief pause in the sound of each vowel).
A glottal stop and/or macron indicate short, normal, long sound and/or a brief pause in the sound of each vowel).
Consonants in Sāmoan language
F G L M N P S T V
Comparison of consonant letters of Sāmoan language to languages of other Polynesian cultures
- Sāmoa s or f = Aotearoa (Māori) h = Hawaiʻi h = Marquesas h = Tahiti h = Tonga h
- Sāmoa g = Aotearoa (Māori) ng = Hawaiʻi n = Marquesas k = Tahiti = Tonga g
- Sāmoa l = Aotearoa (Māori) r = Hawaiʻi l = Marquesas = Tahiti r = Tonga l
- Sāmoa t = Aotearoa (Māori) t = Hawaiʻi k = Marquesas = Tahiti t = Tonga t
- Sāmoa v = Aotearoa (Māori) w = Hawaiʻi w = Marquesas v = Tahiti v = Tonga v
- Sāmoa f = Aotearoa (Māori) wh = Hawaiʻi h = Marquesas f or h = Tahiti h or f = Tonga f
The letter K in Sāmoan language
K
The letter K is a consonant than notes the use of the "K" style of Samoan language and/or used for words introduced with translation from other languages.
Additional Consonants in Sāmoan language
H R
Additional consonants (introduced with translation)
Some English letters informally are translated to Sāmoan Language with the use of additional consonants and rarely with vowels.
- English b = Sāmoan p
- English c = Sāmoan t/k or s
- English d = Sāmoan t/k or s
- English d = Sāmoan t/k
- English g = Sāmoan t/k or s
- English j = Sāmoan s or i
In studies of linguistics, Sāmoan language has been catagoriezed within the Austronesian family of languages.
Linguistic classification
- Austronesian
- Malayo-Polynesian
- Oceanic
- Central Pacific
- Polynesian
- Samoic
- Sāmoan