Pasefika Polynesian Dictionary
English to Polynesian Dictionary
English | Sāmoan | Hawaiʻian | Tongan | Tahitian | Māori | Scientific |
Pacific Mussaenda or Pacific flag-tree | Aloalo vao | Mussaenda raiateensis | ||||
Pacific Ocean | Pasefika | Pākīpika | Pasifiki | Patitifa | Pasifika | |
Pacific rosewood | Milo | Thespesia populnea | ||||
Palolo Worm | Palolo | Palola viridis | ||||
Papaya | Esi | Mīkana | Lesi | ʻĪʻitā | Papaia | Carica papaya |
Paper mulberry | Uʻa | Wauke | Hiapo | Aute | Aute | Broussonetia papyrifera |
Pattern | ʻĒlei | |||||
Pepper elder | Vao Vai | Peperomia pellucida | ||||
Perfume tree | Mosoʻoi | Cananga odorata | ||||
Person | Tagata | Kanaka | Tangata | |||
Person with title | Matai | |||||
Pig | Puaʻa | Puaʻa | Puaka | Puaʻa | Kunekune | Sus scrofa, Sus scrofa domesticus |
Piper graeffei | Fue manogi | Piper graeffei | ||||
Piper puberulum or Macropiper puberlum | ʻAvaʻava aitu | Piper puberulum or Macropiper puberlum | ||||
Plant | Lāʻau | Lāʻau | ||||
Planting Stick | ʻOso | ʻŌʻō | ||||
Please | Faʻamolemole | ʻoluʻolu | Kātaki | |||
Pleiades (Messier 45) | Liʻi | Makaliʻi | Star Cluster | |||
Plumeria | Pua | Melia | Kalosipani | Tīpanīe | Plumeria | |
Polaris | Hōkūpaʻa | Star | ||||
Polyscias | Tagitagi | Polyscias | ||||
Port (side) | Tauagavale | Hema | Hema | ʻAui | Mauī | |
Portuguese man o' war | Vaʻa tau | Paʻimalau | Pekipaki | Physalia physalis | ||
Premna serratifolia | Aloalo | Premna serratifolia | ||||
Psychotria insularum | Masame | Psychotria insularum | ||||
Pull | Futi | Huki |
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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