Entries from Churchward 1959 in Pollex-Online
Churchward, C. M. (1959). Tongan Dictionary. London, Oxford University Press.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Tongan | Mata | See |
| Tongan | Maata/a | See, look at with respect |
| Tongan | Mata | (Of fruit) green, unripe or raw; (of copra) undried; (of timber) unseasoned |
| Tongan | Mata/ʔi | Followed by word for fish, or a fish indicates single individual |
| Tongan | Mataafanga | Beach, shore, seashore, foreshore |
| Tongan | Maatanga | Something well worth looking at; a beauty spot |
| Tongan | Matangi | Wind, air, to be windy |
| Tongan | Maatai | To be expert, to be very clever or skilful |
| Tongan | Taitai | Brackish Problematic |
| Tongan | Matai | Hammer-head shark Phonologically Irregular |
| Tongan | Mataka | (Of what covers a surface) to curve or curl or roll up and come away (e.g. flesh of half-coconut...); copra |
| Tongan | Mataki | Spy (n) |
| Tongan | Matala | Come off, come away, separated, to be; to flower, come out in full bloom, open; flower |
| Tongan | Mataʔali | Ripe before its time because of stem injury (of a coconut) |
| Tongan | Mataliki | (of plants or trees) Begin to produce flower-buds; (of a number of boats or distant islands) to appear as dots or small patches on the horizon |
| Tongan | Mataliki | The Pleiades or Seven Sisters |
| Tongan | Moho | K. vine or creeper bearing small seeds, each of which is red and white and black |
| Tongan | Mataʔi moho | Seeds of vine called moho |
| Tongan | Matapihu | Limpet |
| Tongan | Matapula | Red Globe-eye (Priacanthus cruentatus) |
| Tongan | Mataapule | Man of honourable rank or station; minor chief; chief's attendant and spokesman; sibling-in-law of same sex |
| Tongan | Matata | Make sound of tearing, ripping |
| Tongan | Mata-toʔa | Bold-faced |
| Tongan | Maataʔu | Fishhook |
| Tongan | Ma-taʔu | Right (not left) |
| Tongan | Mate | Die |
| Tongan | Mate | Unconscious |
| Tongan | Mate | Extinguished |
| Tongan | Mate, mate/a | Guess, solve a riddle |
| Tongan | Masike | (Of one who is sitting down) to rise slightly as if about to get up |
| Tongan | Masila | Bonito fishing rod |
| Tongan | Mahino | Clear (to the mind), lucid; distinguished, outstanding (of persons) Phonologically Irregular |
| Tongan | Masiva | Poor |
| Tongan | Mato | Precipice, cliff face |
| Tongan | Matofi | Cut or hacked off, or into two |
| Tongan | Matolu | Thick |
| Tongan | Mau | Cardinal pronoun, 1 exc.pl., we Problematic |
| Tongan | -mau | First person exclusive plural possessive suffix Problematic |
| Tongan | Matu | A fish |
| Tongan | Matuʔu | To cease flowing |
| Tongan | Motuʔu | Quite ripe (of coconut) Borrowed |
| Tongan | Maatuʔu | To be or become dry (of what was actually wet, not of what was merely green (e.g. fresh cut timber)) |
| Tongan | Motuʔa | Old (of people); old person |
| Tongan | Maatuʔa | Old people |
| Tongan | Motuʔa-nima | Thumb |
| Tongan | Motuʔa-vaʔe | Big toe |
| Tongan | Motuʔa-tohi | Original book or document (as opp. to copies or translations) |
| Tongan | Motuʔa | Parent |
| Tongan | Maatuʔa | Parents; old people |
| Tongan | Motuku | Reef Heron (Egretta sacra) |
