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Pages in category "Samoan words and phrases" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ' ʻAiga;
Samoan is an analytic, isolating language and a member of the Austronesian family, and more specifically the Samoic branch of the Polynesian subphylum. It is closely related to other Polynesian languages with many shared cognate words such as aliʻi, ʻava, atua, tapu and numerals as well as in the name of gods in mythology.
Old Samoan is the Samoan language and it survives today unlike Old English. Oratory is the highest form of the language and the most esteemed 'artform' and skill for Samoans. It is full of poetic words and sayings that show off wit and subtlety by the act of speaking.
In Samoan mythology, the village of Falelima is associated with a powerful spirit called Nifoloa. The following is an explanation of the myth told in the words of Samoan historian Teo Tuvale (1855–1919) in the publication An Account of Samoan History up to 1918. [3] The Long Toothed Devil of Falelima.
Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...
The Swedish language also contributes two words on the UK list: smokeless tobacco Snus, pronounced (SNOOZ), and flygskam, the name of a movement that aims to discourage people from flying that ...
Words don't break bones. E pala le maʻa, a e le pala upu. Stones rot but not words. Amuia le masina, e alu ma sau. (literally) Blessed is the moon which goes and returns! Men die and return not. ʻO le ua na fua mai Manuʻa. The rain came from Manuʻa. Spoken of a thing long known beforehand, and yet unprepared for. Uu tuʻu maʻa, a e maʻa i ...
The contemporary classification of the Polynesian languages began with certain observations by Andrew Pawley in 1966 based on shared innovations in phonology, vocabulary and grammar showing that the East Polynesian languages were more closely related to Samoan than they were to Tongan, calling Tongan and its nearby relative Niuean "Tongic" and ...