Entries from Churchward 1959 in Pollex-Online
Churchward, C. M. (1959). Tongan Dictionary. London, Oxford University Press.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Tongan | Moifi | Make a fizzing or hissing sound |
| Tongan | Moka | Light coloured (of skin) |
| Tongan | Moko/moka/ | Light coloured (of skin) |
| Tongan | Moka | Kind of fish-trap used on Niua Toputapu for catching `otule |
| Tongan | Moko | Lizard |
| Tongan | Moko/i | Regal for %manako| "be fond of, like, desire" |
| Tongan | Moko/moko | Cool |
| Tongan | Moko | Fasten thatch by tying with sennit to an apai |
| Tongan | Mokopuna | Grandchild |
| Tongan | Mole | Be lost, perish, become extinct |
| Tongan | Mole/mole | Smooth |
| Tongan | Moli | Citrus (fruit) |
| Tongan | Moli uku | Citron (used in washing the hair) |
| Tongan | Mo/moi/ | Give back |
| Tongan | Mooi/fua | Give completely |
| Tongan | Molokau | Centipede |
| Tongan | Momi | Sunken mouth as when toothless |
| Tongan | Momo | Crumble or become broken into fragments |
| Tongan | Momona | Fat (used of shellfish and crustaceans only) |
| Tongan | Mono | Patch, mend |
| Tongan | Mohemohe | A tree (Leucaena insularum). Tree spp. (Serianthus melanesica, Samania saman (Niuatoputapu)) (Whr). |
| Tongan | Moho | Sooty rail (Porzana tabuensis) |
| Tongan | Moho | Cooked |
| Tongan | (Kato) /Mosikaka/ | Kind of finely woven basket |
| Tongan | Mosimosi | To rain lightly |
| Tongan | Moto/hiko | Strike with fist suddenly |
| Tongan | Moto | Flower-bud; to bud |
| Tongan | Moto/moto | (Of fruit) not quite ripe |
| Tongan | Motu | To be severed, become separated |
| Tongan | Motu | Island |
| Tongan | Muu | Moth |
| Tongan | Muu | (Monotaxis grandoculis) |
| Tongan | Muʔa | Front; space or place in front or further forward |
| Tongan | Muʔa | Please; with your permission; if I may |
| Tongan | Muʔaki | To be the first or leading person(s) in, lead theway |
| Tongan | Muka | Leaf-bud, very young leaf; (of leaves) to sprout, to begin to appear... |
| Tongan | Muko/muka | (To have) many leaf-buds or young leaves |
| Tongan | Muka | Hard stone, whitish in colour |
| Tongan | Mui | Back, rear, hind; go behind, later |
| Tongan | Muli | Another country, place outside Tonga...foreign, non-Tongan, exotic Problematic |
| Tongan | Mui | End, extremity, tip (of yam, bunch of bananas, etc.) |
| Tongan | Mui | Young, immature, only partly grown or developed (as yet); applied to animals, birds, tree, plant, fruit, but not to human beings, except in the compound finemui "young woman" |
| Tongan | Muifonua | Cape |
| Tongan | Muivaʔe | Heel |
| Tongan | Muivai | Mouth of river |
| Tongan | Mulu | Strip, grasp and run the hands along with a stripping motion. Hence: to roll up the sleeves in this way; to strip a stem of leaves; to strip intestines |
| Tongan | Mu/muu/ | Warm oneself at fire |
| Tongan | Mumu | Crowded closely together |
| Tongan | Mumuni | Shade eyes with hand |
| Tongan | Munua | A very large fish |
