See fale in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"Tongan terms inherited from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian",
"Tongan terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian",
"Tongan terms inherited from Proto-Oceanic",
"Tongan terms inherited from Proto-Polynesian",
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