Tongan entries in Pollex-Online

Protoform Item Description Source
PN.TAU-PILI Toupili To follow round closely, to dog one's footsteps (Cwd)
PN.TAU-QA Touʔa Persons whose duty it is to prepare kava for drinking, esp. on ceremonial occasions Uncertain Semantic Connection (Cwd)
PN.TAU-QI Tow To barter, to trade (Mar)
PN.TAU-QI Tow, toia To meet one's expectations of profit in the act of bartering, or trading (Mar)
PN.TAURA Toua A rope to climb by (Bkr)
PN.TAU-RAKI Tauaki Dry in the air (Cwd)
PN.TAU-SALA Tauhala Miss mark (Cwd)
PN.TAU-SALA Touhala To do at the wrong time, etc. (Cwd)
PN.TAUSI Tauhi To tend, look after, take care of...keep safe, preserve... (Cwd)
PN.TAU-SOA Tauhoa Two by two, in pairs; opposite one another in pairs (e.g., of two parallel lines of trees or posts) (Cwd)
XW.TAU-SUNI.* Touhuni A tree (Tournefortia argentea) (Cwd)
PN.TAU-TAFA Tautafa Edge one's way, push oneself sideways (Cwd)
EO.TAU-TAHI Tautahi Continually swimming or batheing in the sea (Cwd)
EO.TAU-TAHI Toutai Fisherman Phonologically Irregular (Cwd)
EO.TAU-TAHI Totý A sailor, a fisherman; to fish (Mar)
PN.TAUTALA Tautala Inform another of our designs in order to know his mind (Bkr)
SO.TAU-TALI Toutali Second (esp. of baskets of food presented) Problematic (Cwd)
PN.TAU-TAMA Toutama To give suck, to suckle a child; woman suckling a child. Nourrice (Btn). (Cwd)
PN.TAU-TASA Taautaha Personal, individual; one by one, one at a time, one in each place, individually (Cwd)
PN.TAUTE Taute-ʔi To knock (a person) about, to treat roughly, to punish Uncertain Semantic Connection (Cwd)
PN.TAUTE Taute/a To punish; punishment Uncertain Semantic Connection (Cwd)
PN.TAU-TONU Toutonu To do at the proper time or times.... À temps, à propos (Btn). (Cwd)
MP.TAUTU Toutu A kind of fish (Cwd)
PN.TAU-WALO Tauvalo/valo To shout out and make remarks in surprise or wonder (Cwd)
MP.TAWA.1 Tava (Pometia pinnata) (Cwd)
OC.TAWAHI Tavahi Tree sp. (Rhus taitensis) (Cwd)
PN.TAWAKE Tavake Tropic Bird (Cwd)
PN.TAWA-TAWA Kavakava (Euthynnus yaito) Problematic (Hpr)
PN.TE.2 Te (Immediately before a pronominal subj.) or ‘e (elsewhere), sign of future tense, or merely a predicative sign (Cwd)
CP.TEA Tea White, whitish, light, pale (Cwd)
CP.TEA Téa Pale, white (Mar)
CE.TEFA.1 Tefa Fondling; a loving and caressing manner Problematic (Bkr)
OC.TEFE Tefe Circumcise (Cwd)
OC.TEFE Tefe To circumcise in the Tonga manner (Mar)
XW.TE-FUA Tefua One [in compounds meaning 'having one' or 'by oneself']; (in arithmetic) units (Cwd)
XW.TE-FUA Tefooa Single, alone (Mar)
PN.TEGA.1A Tenge/tenga/ Lumpy (Cwd)
PN.TEGA.1B Tenga Thigh (Cwd)
PN.TEGA.1B Tenga The thigh, the ham (Mar)
PN.TEGA.1C Tenga Seed, pip, grain (Cwd)
PN.TEGA.2 Te/tenga Feel painful as the result of a squeeze (or as if squeezed) (Cwd)
TO.TEGA-MAE Tengamae K. shellfish (Cwd)
TO.TEGI-TEGI Tengitengi Coconut leaf plaited in a certain way (Cwd)
FJ.TEI.2 Tei(tei) Preposed adverb: nearly; (with negative) at all (Cwd)
FJ.TEI.2 Te, té-té/ Almost, well nigh. (Mar)
PN.TEKA.1 Teka Roll, rotate, revolve (Cwd)
PN.TEKA.1 Teca To trundle; a wheel, a ball; the name of a boyish sport (Mar)
PN.TE-KAU Tekau Twenty, score (of yams, fish, coconuts) (Cwd)
PN.TE-KAU Teców. Gna/ców. A score. The plural of tecow, a score, used only in counting out yams and fish (Mar)
FJ.TEKE.2 Teke A prop (Cwd)

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