Entries from Churchward 1959 in Pollex-Online
Churchward, C. M. (1959). Tongan Dictionary. London, Oxford University Press.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Tongan | Utupoto | Main cross-pieces of timber in the roof of a Tongan house. There is one at each end, resting on the joists |
| Tongan | Vaa | Laugh loudly (of two or more) |
| Tongan | Vaa | Distance between, distance apart; attitude, feeling, relationship towards each other |
| Tongan | Vaʔe | Leg |
| Tongan | Vahe | Divide, division, Separate |
| Tongan | Vaahenga | Division, portion, share; central performer in dance |
| Tongan | Vahe ua | Half, divide in half |
| Tongan | Vai | Water |
| Tongan | Vaikeli | Well |
| Tongan | Vai-muʔa | The second month in the old Tongan calendar |
| Tongan | Vai-mui | Third month in the old calendar |
| Tongan | Vaipuna | Spring |
| Tongan | Vaitafe | River, stream |
| Tongan | Vaivai | Weak (of tea etc.), mild (of cheese); lose, be beaten, in subjection; pale (of colours) |
| Tongan | Vaka | Canoe |
| Tongan | Vaka | Bodily abode of a supernatural being |
| Tongan | Vakai | Look at, consider |
| Tongan | Kavakava | Midrib of Coconut leaf Problematic |
| Tongan | Vakavaka | Side of the thorax, of humans or animals |
| Tongan | Vaakule | Rummage about in |
| Tongan | Vala | Clothes, especially loincloth, wear or put on clothes, especially loin-cloth. Kilt (Cct). |
| Tongan | Vaalai | Kind of creeper, liana; (Mucuna gigantea) (Entada phaseoloides) (Whr) |
| Tongan | Vavale | Slime, slimy. |
| Tongan | Vale | Foolish, silly, ignorant; unskilled, incapable, incompetent; mad on, over-fond of |
| Tongan | Vali | To paint or smear |
| Tongan | Valo | To blab, yap (talk): disrespectful for lea |
| Tongan | Va/valo/ | Make prediction, prophesy, utter a warning cry |
| Tongan | Valo | Marine creature like long, thin lobster; Squilla |
| Tongan | Valovalo | A tree |
| Tongan | Valu | Eight |
| Tongan | Valu | General name for tuna |
| Tongan | Valu louniu | Wahoo |
| Tongan | Vau | Scrape v |
| Tongan | Vana | Sea-egg with long thin spikes |
| Tongan | Vaangana | (Of water) to make a trickling, rippling or running noise Problematic |
| Tongan | Vao | Forest |
| Tongan | Vaha | Open sea, sea as an interval of space and time between two places |
| Tongan | Vaasia | A food made from taro leaves, coconut cream and arrowroot |
| Tongan | Vatuke | Kind of sea-egg with long, thick spikes |
| Tongan | Vavae | Cotton plant; wick of a lamp; (Ceiba pentandra) (Whr) |
| Tongan | Vave | Quick, fast; at once |
| Tongan | Veka | Go or come suddenly (like a veka) |
| Tongan | Vela-sia | Burnt |
| Tongan | Vela | Hot, heat |
| Tongan | Oliji | Papaw (Ldn) |
| Tongan | Veli | Hairy worm that lives mostly in water |
| Tongan | Velo | To thrust, to insert; to fish with a spear |
| Tongan | Vete | Loose, unloose, unfasten, untie, undo, unpack, unwind, unstitch etc.; release; take off (clothes); confess (wrongdoing) |
| Tongan | Vete | Surmullet |
| Tongan | Veve | Rubbish, litter, garbage, refuse |
