Tusi`Upu Samoa: the Samoan Dictionary of Papaali`I Dr Semisi Ma`Ia`I – Volume 2 English/Samoan (Soft Cover)

English to S?moan

Author: Semisi Ma`ia`I

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Tusi'upu Samoa is a long-awaited dictionary of Samoan, the first comprehensive work of its sort written by a Samoan, Papaali'i Dr Semisi Ma'ia'i. Volume Two contains the English to Samoan text.

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Tusi'upu Samoa is a long-awaited dictionary of Samoan, the first comprehensive work of its sort written by a Samoan, Papaali'i Dr Semisi Ma'ia'i. Volume Two contains the English to Samoan text.

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The most comprehensive S?moan dictionary and the first of an scale to be written by a S?moan, this dictionary provides context and social meaning as well as word-definitions.

About the Author

Born in the village of Leifiifi on the island of Upolu, Semisi Maiai is a doctor of medicine and holds the Samoan orator's title, Papaalii. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1954 and, after graduation from medical college, married Jenny, a Pakeha New Zealander who was then working as a nurse in Wellington. They moved first to New Plymouth and then to Auckland, where they raised two children. Semisi wrote his Samoan dictionary Tusi 'Upu Samoa over this period. Forty years later, in 2010, it was published by Little Island Press, the first such dictionary to be written by a Samoan. Semisi and Jenny now live in Wellington, where Semisi continues to write.