Entries from Churchward 1959 in Pollex-Online
Churchward, C. M. (1959). Tongan Dictionary. London, Oxford University Press.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Tongan | Huhu | Breast; suck (as a baby does from breast or bottle) |
| Tongan | Hui | Bone; needle |
| Tongan | Huʔi | Detach, take off, slip off; pick by the bunch; cast off, give up (bad habits etc.) |
| Tongan | Huli | Fish sp |
| Tongan | Huu | Enter |
| Tongan | Ulu/fia | To infect (a wound or a limb etc.) so as to cause blood-poisoning (often impl.) Problematic |
| Tongan | Ulu/isino | To be in control of a person, as an obsession; said of a demon of hatred, etc. Problematic |
| Tongan | Huumaki | Insert, poke in |
| Tongan | Huni | Having grease or oil floating on surface |
| Tongan | Ka | Future tense marker in certain subordinate clauses |
| Tongan | Ka | If, when |
| Tongan | Kaa | Clear throat forcibly and noisily, hawk Problematic |
| Tongan | Ka, kae, kaa | And (at the same time or immediately afterwards), whereupon; while, whereas, and (for his part, or for my part etc.); and (instead); but, but instead, however |
| Tongan | Kafa | Sennit |
| Tongan | Kafa | Great |
| Tongan | Kaafa/kafa/ | Vast, huge |
| Tongan | Ka na fai | If |
| Tongan | Kaafaki | To climb carrying something |
| Tongan | Fekika | Malay apple Phonologically Irregular |
| Tongan | Kafo | Wound (n.), wounded, to be |
| Tongan | Kafu | Cover oneself |
| Tongan | Kafukafu | Membrane covering the intestines |
| Tongan | Kai (tr. kei/na) | Food, eat |
| Tongan | Kai | Suffer, experience |
| Tongan | Kai | To score a point in a game |
| Tongan | Kai/fonua | Commoner |
| Tongan | Kai/na | Occupied by strangers, to be |
| Tongan | Kei | Still, i.e. continuing as before |
| Tongan | Kaainga | Relation, relative |
| Tongan | Kaihaʔa-si | Steal |
| Tongan | Kaiʔiloa | Lost or missing |
| Tongan | Kailuu | Eat left-over scraps |
| Tongan | Kainanga | Populace, people without chiefly rank |
| Tongan | Kaihau | Share in food, etc., provided for a ruler |
| Tongan | Angafaka/kaisii/ | Habitually behave like a commoner |
| Tongan | Maʔ/itoʔa | Serves you (him etc.) right |
| Tongan | Kaka | Fibre around base of coconut leaf |
| Tongan | Kakaha | To glow with heat, be red hot |
| Tongan | Kakai | People (collectively), peopled |
| Tongan | Kakala | Fragrant flower |
| Tongan | Kakalu | Large cricket/cicada sp |
| Tongan | Kakano | Flesh, contents or substance |
| Tongan | Kakau | Swim, of man and ducks but not fish |
| Tongan | Kakau | Temporary handle; something tied/fixed on to hold by |
| Tongan | Kakava | Sweat |
| Tongan | Kaka | Climb Phonologically Irregular |
| Tongan | Kala/kala | (Of a cut,or the hand (sic), etc.) to sting, to smart; (of iodine etc.) to sting |
| Tongan | Fatu/kala/ | Hard black stone |
| Tongan | Kalala | Frizzle, sizzle |
| Tongan | Kalamihi | Crab sp |
