Entries from Churchward 1959 in Pollex-Online
Churchward, C. M. (1959). Tongan Dictionary. London, Oxford University Press.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Tongan | ʔAonga | Useful, of practical value |
| Tongan | ʔAʔapa | Behave in respectful way |
| Tongan | Apai | Certain parts of roof timbers of a Tongan house. They run lengthwise and the rafters are bound to them |
| Tongan | ʔApi | Home, allotment of ground, area of land for special |
| Tongan | ʔApi | Crowded, congested |
| Tongan | Apo/apo | Take aim, especially in the game lafo |
| Tongan | ʔApoo | Tonight (said during the day) |
| Tongan | ʔApongipongi | Tomorrow |
| Tongan | Ahi | Sandalwood |
| Tongan | ʔA/ʔahi/ | Visit |
| Tongan | ʔAho | Shark sp |
| Tongan | ʔAho | Day (date) |
| Tongan | Ohu | Dip up, ladle, bale a boat |
| Tongan | ʔAahua | Hasten |
| Tongan | Ata | Dawn |
| Tongan | ʔAta | Shadow, reflection |
| Tongan | ʔAtaa | Free, spacious, vacant; absolute, nothing but, sheer, veritable |
| Tongan | ʔAtamai | Intelligent, intelligence |
| Tongan | ʔI/ate | At, on, in... |
| Tongan | ʔAte | Liver |
| Tongan | ʔAte-ʔi-vaʔe | Calf of leg |
| Tongan | ʔAatea | With nothing in the hands, empty-handed |
| Tongan | ʔAte pili | Spleen |
| Tongan | Asiasi | Keep a lookout for |
| Tongan | ʔAsi | Protrude, emerge, show itself, etc. Traverser; sillonner (éclair) (Btn). |
| Tongan | ʔEsi | Flat-topped artificial mound of earth |
| Tongan | ʔAsi/nga | All the more, all the greater |
| Tongan | ʔEsi-afi | Fetch or get or procure fire |
| Tongan | Ato | Acquire higher rank through marriage |
| Tongan | ʔAto | Thatch |
| Tongan | Atu | Away from speaker |
| Tongan | ʔAtu | Bonito |
| Tongan | ʔOtu | Line, row |
| Tongan | ʔAtu | Give |
| Tongan | ʔOtua | Deity |
| Tongan | Au | First person singular pronoun (Focus) |
| Tongan | Aʔu | To arrive; to reach or extend to |
| Tongan | ʔAu- | Remove unwanted portion of something -- strip, scale, husk, etc. (in compounds) |
| Tongan | ʔOua | Negative in prohibitions, or after ke, etc. |
| Tongan | Uee | Interjection expressing surprise |
| Tongan | ʔAuhulu | Rid a tree or plant of its dry leaves |
| Tongan | ʔAukai | Go without food, fast |
| Tongan | Au | Current, stream; ooze out (of pus) Problematic |
| Tongan | ʔAukava/ʔi | Catch fish with help of fish poison |
| Tongan | ʔOmai, ʔomi | Bring give or send or lend (to me or us) |
| Tongan | Ma/aʔumohe/ | Fast asleep |
| Tongan | Ava | Passage, opening. A cove, crevice, creek; a hole; a gap; a streight (Mar). |
| Tongan | ʔAva | Fish sp |
| Tongan | ʔAavanga | Sickness caused (or believed to be caused) by a fa`ahikehe or tevolo. Be fascinated or infatuated by, or strongly attracted to a girl (or a boy) as if enchanted or bewitched Borrowed Problematic |
| Tongan | ʔAavangaa | To develop a terrible craze for, as if bewitched; to be infatuated Borrowed Problematic |
