Samoan dictionary

531 Pages·1862·20.976 MB·English

by  George Pratt

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2234 . 009 0862)
Harvard College
Library
VER1
FROM THE BEQUEST OF
FRANCIS BROWN HAYES
Class of 1839
OF LEXINGTON,MASSACHUSETTS

Fund Plans
SAMOAN DICTIONARY :
ENGLISH AND SAMOAN,
AND
SAMOAN AND ENGLISH ;
WITH A
SHORT GRAMMAR OF THE SAMOAN DIALECT.
George Pratt .
SAMOA :
PRINTED AT THE
LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY'S PRESS.
N.DCCC.LXI.
2294 .009 % 862),
HARVARD COLLEGE
DIC 20'1991
LIBRARY
Hoyee freund
PREFACE.
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No Dictionary of the Samoan dialect having been
hitherto published,the present will almost of necessity
be found imperfect. It com }.rises, however, the sub
stance of what has heen gathered during niore than
twenty-oneyears, byattention to the language asspoken
by the natives.
In 1851, all the words that Ihad by that time col
lected were examined carefully, one by one, with intel
ligent natives,who acted as pundits. The manuscript
thus prepared was subsequently collated with a manu
script volumeofnative songsand traditions, and thence
enlarged. It was also compared with the Tongan and
part of the Tahitian Dictionaries.
At ameeting ofthemissionaries in 1859, a resolu
tion was passed that the Work should be printed. In
consequence of this, it hasbeen again revised, and eigh
teen hundred words havebeen added to Prart II.; and,
finally, it has been revised by the Rev A . W . Murray.
The size of the volume might easily have been in
creased, by enlarging theGrammar,byadding examples