Entries from Churchward 1959 in Pollex-Online
Churchward, C. M. (1959). Tongan Dictionary. London, Oxford University Press.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Tongan | Mamanu | Fish sp. |
| Tongan | Matakele/kele | Fish sp. |
| Tongan | ʔUme lei | Variety of 'ume (leather-jacket) |
| Tongan | Takuoo | Fish sp. |
| Tongan | Fuiva | K. sea-bird Problematic |
| Tongan | Pasi(pasi) | To clap, to applaud by clapping |
| Tongan | (ʔ)I ai | Is (or are) there, or equivalent to the verb 'to be' in an existential sense |
| Tongan | Fokonofo | Second wife of king...providedby the first wife when she herself becomes the wife of another man |
| Tongan | Fakanofo | Appoint (a person to an office), ordain (a minister) |
| Tongan | ʔAngoʔango | Absolutely empty, absolutely dry, completely finished (of a vessel which has had liquid in it) |
| Tongan | Iku | To end, terminate, culminate...; tail (esp. of a quadruped) |
| Tongan | Hikuhiku | Top(s) or tip(s) projecting upwards: inc. top (of a mast or flagstaff etc.); tip (of a branch), topmost branch (of a tree), projecting leaves or twigs (on top of a hedge), etc. |
| Tongan | Mafahi | Split (vi); split (n), fissure, piece split off |
| Tongan | Fahi | To slaughter (an animal) and cut it up for food; to chop (a coconut) in two |
| Tongan | ʔAho/tee/tea | A little before sunrise Problematic |
| Tongan | Tuʔa | Space or place or time behind or beyond, back or rougher side or inner or under surface (of leaf, cloth, garment, mat etc.)...outside surface... |
| Tongan | ʔOange, ʔange | Take, give, send or lend (to him, them, etc.) |
| Tongan | Fakateetee | To sail (a boat); boat race(s), regatta |
| Tongan | Tangi | (Of animals) make characteristic sound |
| Tongan | Mofi | To be warm, esp. with fever; to be fervent |
| Tongan | Moofi/a | To burn, be burnt (honorific) |
| Tongan | Peke | To soak or sop up (gravy, soup etc.) with bread or yam etc. |
| Tongan | Hehengi | Wild, undomesticated |
| Tongan | Pakihi | To click, or make a cracklin, breaking or snapping noise; (voice) sharp, metallic, falsetto Problematic |
| Tongan | Talatuʔa | Spikes, or fins with sharp spikes, on the backs of certain fish |
| Tongan | Aʔa(aʔa) | Wade (through water or grass or dry leaves or branches etc.); push one’s way (more or less disrespectfully) through a crowd…. Phonologically Irregular |
| Tongan | ʔAhanga | Ford, reef or shallow place where one can wade across |
| Tongan | Kalu | (of windpipe) Clogged |
| Tongan | Meʔá mo | Do...sometimes |
| Tongan | Ka meʔá | If that is the case |
| Tongan | Meʔa | Honorific for various verbs meaning 'go, come, think, stand, sit' etc. |
| Tongan | Vela | To be on fire, to catch fire; to burn, be burning; to be burnt; to be scorched or scalded; burning fire, conflagration, bush fire |
| Tongan | Tuʔulaki | (of a number of persons) Form up, stand in proper positions… |
| Tongan | ʔAfio | (of king or queen) To sit, to be present, to live (dwell, reside), or to look; Majesty |
| Tongan | Taʔopatu | A certain part of the roof timbers of a Tongan house |
| Tongan | Tafatafa | Side (of chief or sovereign) |
| Tongan | Talatala | Prickly, thorny; barbed; (of a man's face, etc.) bristly |
| Tongan | Fakaʔatuʔi | To be considerate, to treat with consideration, or with thought for the feelings or interests of |
| Tongan | Tupu | (after hongofulu, etc.) and more, and one or more over; hono tupu excess |
| Tongan | Tupu | Groin |
| Tongan | Liha-muʔa | Name of the first month in the old Tongan calendar |
| Tongan | Liha-mui | Name of the second month in the old Tongan calendar |
| Tongan | Hilinga-kelekele | Name of the seventh month in the old Tongan calendar |
| Tongan | Hilinga-meaʔa | Name of the eighth month in the old Tongan calendar |
| Tongan | Taapuni | To shut or close (door, window, book, box, bottle, mail etc.); to block (a path or doorway) by standing in it |
| Tongan | Faka/anufea | To cool down or keep cool by placing in water |
| Tongan | Kauʔaa | Boundary fence, boundary, border |
| Tongan | Maalooloo | To rest |
| Tongan | Ngutulimu | K. fish |
| Tongan | Lava | Achieve, attain, accomplish; (succeed in) arriving |
