Entries from Churchward 1959 in Pollex-Online
Churchward, C. M. (1959). Tongan Dictionary. London, Oxford University Press.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Tongan | Loʔi | Cooked in coconut cream |
| Tongan | Loloʔi | Dilute scented oil by adding more oil; cook in coconut cream |
| Tongan | Loomaki | Flood (n,v) |
| Tongan | Loomaki/ʔi | Hold a person under water |
| Tongan | Lomi | Press v |
| Tongan | Loto | Inside |
| Tongan | Loto | Hole in coral reef or sea bed |
| Tongan | Loto | Mind, heart (seat of affections); desire, will, purpose; anger, ire, temper; to be minded to, desire to, consent, assent |
| Tongan | Loto-ʔaa | Enclosure, grounds |
| Tongan | Lotu | Prayer, worship |
| Tongan | Luu | Taro leaves used as food |
| Tongan | Luu- | Shake (in several compounds) |
| Tongan | Luo | Hole, pit |
| Tongan | Lua | Vomit |
| Tongan | Ua | Two |
| Tongan | -lua | Two (in some compounds) |
| Tongan | Lue | Rock back and forth |
| Tongan | Lufolufa | Sinnet plaited in certain way Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Tongan | Ufi | Fish sp |
| Tongan | Luki | Challenge, boast, defy |
| Tongan | Luku/luku | Gather up/draw together (Garment) so as to look untidy |
| Tongan | Luuku/tanga | What one holds in one's arms or hands |
| Tongan | Lulu | Owl |
| Tongan | Lulu | Reeding, reed/wicker fence, provide with such fence |
| Tongan | Uu | Sheltered |
| Tongan | Luma | Taunt, jeer |
| Tongan | Uumana | Sea-anemone |
| Tongan | Nga/lupe/lupe | Jog or spring or flop or move up and down, e.g. as the ends of a plank carried across the shoulder, or water carried carelessly |
| Tongan | Lupo | Trevally |
| Tongan | Ma- | Prefix indicating possibility of performing the action |
| Tongan | Maa | And (only with numerals) |
| Tongan | Maa | Plantains or bananas preserved by fermentation |
| Tongan | Maa | Ashamed |
| Tongan | Maa | First person exclusive dual preposed pronoun |
| Tongan | -ma | First person exclusive dual possessive suffix |
| Tongan | Maʔa | Clean |
| Tongan | Maʔa | For |
| Tongan | Mae | Withered |
| Tongan | Mae | Smell of partly decayed sea-food |
| Tongan | Maea | Rope |
| Tongan | Maʔene/ʔene | To be tickled, to feel a tickling sensation |
| Tongan | Mafaʔa | Cracked open, fissured |
| Tongan | Mafei/a | To be able (to do) (Cwd) |
| Tongan | Mafaki | To fall from the bunch of its own accord |
| Tongan | Mafana | Warm (of food, water, drink); unpleasantly warm, stuffy (of room |
| Tongan | Maafana | Warmth; warm (of country, time, day); pleasantly warm |
| Tongan | Mafao | Taut, tight; stretch or reach out |
| Tongan | Mafasi | Broken internally |
| Tongan | Mafatua | Sneeze |
| Tongan | Mafela | Opened out, come open , left open (impolite) |
