ʻAlagaupu Samoa

Alagaupu e maua mai le ta'aloga ole tologa tele **Alagaupu Samoa** mai i aso anamua. O 'alagaupu nei na tusia e George Pratt, o se misionare mo le LMS i Samoa. E 40 tausaga na faigaluega ai Pratt i Samoa i Matautu i Savai'i. O 'alagaupu nei na lomia i le tausaga 1893 i le tusi *A Grammar  and Dictionary of the Samoan language, with English and Samoan vocabulary.*

## O Tasi Tavita le Polōfesa Alagaupu
'Alaupu i le gagana Samoa ma liliu i le Igilisi.
Ia tupu se fusi

**Ia lafoia i le fogavaʻa tele*. 
Let it be thrown on the deck of the large canoe. A depreciatory saying of a speaker.
**ʻO le fogavaʻa e tasi.*
One family.
**Ua iloa i vaʻa lelea.* 

**E pogai i vao, a e liaʻi i ala.*
It grew in the bush, but it is cast away in the road.
*ʻO lalo ifi lenei.*
This is a secret; lit., This is under the chestnut tree.
**ʻO le puta i Tufa.*
Only a threat.
**Tuʻu ia ma paga.*
In the game of *tatia* when counted wrongly; applied to anything not paid for.
**Ua se vaʻa tu matagi.*
Of anything quick, like a canoe before the wind.
**Ua usiusi-faʻavaʻasavili.*
To obey like a canoe before the wind.
**Ua le seʻi seu faʻaʻalo.*
To request to be respectful; lit., Why do you not steer out of the way?
**Ia tala mea faʻasolo* (of *seuga-lupe*, pigeon snaring).*
To dismiss an assembly.
**Fale-taeao e le afiafi.*
Who sits at home in the morning will not eat in the evening. Of a lazy person.
**Taliu a e popoʻe.*
Of one who is afraid out at sea. He bails out the canoe, but is afraid.
**Ua le faasinopu le tautuʻu palapala.*
A reference to the work of digging tupa. Applied to lazy people who do not help at work.
**E le fono paʻa mona vae.*
The crab did not consult with its legs that they should pinch; they did it of themselves. Applied to youths who get into trouble without consulting the elders.
**ʻO le lima e paia le mata.* 
(literally) The hand strikes the eye. Of one who brings trouble on himself.
**ʻO le toʻotoʻo sinasina.*
A white staff; i.e. a new speaker.
**ʻO le toʻotoʻo uliuli.*
A black staff; i.e., an old speaker.
**E logo le tuli ona tata.*
The deaf hears when he is tapped.
**E pata le tutu i ona vae.*
The crab blusters on his feet; a boy blusters when he knows his father is near.
**Na ʻo gata e fasi a vaʻai.*
The snake when about to be killed looks but does not escape. Said of one blamed before his face.
**E solo le fai, a e tuʻu le foto.*
The skate swims away, but leaves its barb.
**E le pu se tino i upu.*
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 aʻau.*
The crabs left the stone, and took a piece of the reef.
**Ua solo le lava-lima.*
To be prosperous.
**ʻO le ʻumu ua vela.*
Of one who does many things for his country.
**ʻO le sola a Faleata.*
Does not run far, but returns.
**ʻO le a sosopo le manu vale i le foga-tia.*
The foolish bird passes over the *tiʻa*. Applied by one of himself when speaking before great chiefs.
**ʻO le fogatiʻa ua malu maunu.*
Of one who calls in to get food.
**Punapuna a manu fou.*
To begin heartily and finish weakly.
**Ua se vi a toli.*
Applied to a number falling in a clubbing match.
**E i o le ua tafunaʻi.*
The rain carried by the wind to leeward. Applied to toilalo party.
**Ia fili e le tai se agavaʻa.*
Let the wind choose as to the quickness of a canoe.
**Se a lou manoginogi.*
Spoken to a man of bad conduct. His conduct is no more fragrant.
**E lutia i Puava, a e mapu i Fagalele.*
Hard-pressed paddling in Puava, but at rest in Fagalele.
**Ua tagi le fatu ma le eleele.*
The stones and the earth weep. Applied to the death of a beloved chief.
**Ua lelea le laumea.*
The dry leaves are carried away by the wind. Of troops routed.
**Sei logo ia Moo.*
Make it known to Moo.
**Ua o Tapatapao le fealuaʻi.*
A myth of a mountain that went backwards and forwards between Upolu and Savaiʻi.
**Ia tupu i se fusi.*
May you grow in a swamp, i.e.. quickly. A prayer of a father for his son.
**ʻO le ola e taupule-esea.*
Our lives are decreed to be taken by the gods.
**E ese ea le aitu, ese le moemu?*
Is the *aitu* different from the moemu? Doing something wrong under another name.
**Tapai tataga le pilia.* “Little pitchers have ears;” 
(literally), Don't let lizards go near when getting *afato*, because they will eat them. Applied to children present at conversation of grown people.
**E tuai tuai, ta te maʻona ai.*
It is very long coming, but will be satisfying. Of an oven of food long in preparation, but satisfying. Applied generally to expected but delayed good.
**ʻO le mama ma le ponoi.*
A mouthful and a blow; or of a canoe both leaky and with the waves coming in. Applied to one over-burdened with different tasks.
**Ua mua ane lava se fale.*
First of all a house. Applied to one having neither strength nor means, but who talks of building a house.
**Ua o Leaʻea, He is like Leaʻea.*
Leaʻea shook the bonito off his hook back into the sea. Applied to those rejecting good things when offered.
**Ia e vae a Vaeau.*
Let your feet be those of Vaeau (who went to heaven and back in a day); i.e., Be quick.
**Ua o le malaga i Oloolo.*
It is like the journey of Oloolo. Applied to a thing proposed to be done, but yet left undone. (A Samoan myth.)
**Ua se ana.*
Of something promised, but not given.
**A fai ea aʻu mou titi seesee.*
Am I to be your old ti-leaf girdle? Said to one constantly begging.
**Ua ola ipiniu.*
They used cups for fish-baskets; because there were so few fish caught.
**E toa e le loto, a e pa le noo.*
Strong in heart, but broken in the back. Of a man whose will is stronger than his body.
**Lua mata to ese.*
Two taro planted away; i.e., Better have a small plantation of your own than be joined with another.
**E le mapeva se upu.*
Not a word stumbles.
**Aniui, Anini, Aveavai.*
The town Anini was burning, and Aveavai said it served them right, for they were thieves; but the fire spread to Aveavai, and they, too, were burned out.
**Ua aofia i le futiafu e tasi.*
When the river dries up, water is found only in the bason of the waterfall. Applied to all being of one mind in a council.
**Seʻi luaʻi lou le ʻulu taumamao.*
Pick the breadfruits on the far-off branches first. Applied to any work, etc., to be done. Do the most difficult first.
**Tau ina ta ma faʻapoi.*
Only threaten and not execute.
**Ia lafoia i le alo galo.*
May you be thrown he bosom of the wave; the front part of the wave where it is easy to swim.
**Ia natia i Fatualavai.*
May our fault be hidden in Fatualavai. May we be forgiven.
**Ua se tifitifi.*
Of a nimble warrior.
**Ua se moo le sosolo.*
He is a lizard crawling. Of a disobedient lad.
**Ua se taʻataʻa a le ala.*
Like grass by the roadside. Of one who has no fixed abode.

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