Entries from Churchward 1959 in Pollex-Online
Churchward, C. M. (1959). Tongan Dictionary. London, Oxford University Press.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Tongan | ʔUi | Comparatively light in colour (of coconuts or the skin of natives) |
| Tongan | Niu ʔui | Kind of coconut whose unripe fruit is light green |
| Tongan | Uka | Bowstring |
| Tongan | ʔUka | Firm but elastic in texture |
| Tongan | Uka | Sticky, glutinous |
| Tongan | (ʔ)Ukamea | Iron or steel |
| Tongan | ʔUke | Big, in contrast to small things |
| Tongan | Uku/ʔi | Wash (the head) |
| Tongan | Uku/ʔumea | Wash (the head) with clay |
| Tongan | Ulo | Burn, be or catch alight; flame |
| Tongan | ʔUo | Lobster |
| Tongan | Ule | Penis, male organ of copulation |
| Tongan | ʔUli | Steer v |
| Tongan | ʔUli | Black |
| Tongan | Uu | Spread out hot stones in native oven before putting food on them |
| Tongan | ʔUlu | Head, hair |
| Tongan | ʔUlu | Clump |
| Tongan | ʔUlua | Mature trevalli |
| Tongan | ʔUluaki | First |
| Tongan | ʔUluʔulu | Low-lying rocks adjoining shore or inner reef |
| Tongan | ʔUlumotuʔa | Head of a family or tribe |
| Tongan | ʔUlupoko | Skull |
| Tongan | ʔUlutuki | Fish sp |
| Tongan | Uma | Shoulder |
| Tongan | ʔUma | To kiss |
| Tongan | ʔUmata | Rainbow |
| Tongan | ʔUme | Leather-jacket fish |
| Tongan | ʔUmisi | Crave for seafood |
| Tongan | ʔUmosi | To plug up |
| Tongan | ʔUmu | Oven, food cooked in oven |
| Tongan | ʔUno | Fish scale, turtle shell |
| Tongan | ʔUnoko | Pressed in by sitting, of boil on buttocks |
| Tongan | Unu(hi) | Pull out, draw out (a sword, a tooth) |
| Tongan | Qunu | Move over or along; approach or draw near to |
| Tongan | Uhi | (Evodia hortensis) |
| Tongan | ʔUhi | Perhaps black |
| Tongan | Pa/ʔuhi/ʔuhi | Black and shiny, glossy (of hair) |
| Tongan | Uho | Umbilical cord |
| Tongan | Uho taha | Having the same mother |
| Tongan | Uhu | To have pleurisy, or a pain that feels like pleurisy |
| Tongan | Uhu | Go or come early in the morning |
| Tongan | Uta | Cargo, freight (of canoe) |
| Tongan | ʔUta | Inland (from shore), shore, land (from sea) |
| Tongan | ʔUta | Considered judgement |
| Tongan | ʔU/ʔusi | To bite |
| Tongan | Uto | Floaters of net |
| Tongan | ʔUto | Sprouting coconut; brain |
| Tongan | Mou | Second person plural possessive suffix Problematic |
| Tongan | Utu | To enjoy or suffer as a result of what one has done; to reap or harvest |
| Tongan | Utu | Reap; harvest yams |
