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Same as the particle iā and replacing i #5 before proper nouns.

• Examples:
  • Ā hiki i lalo iō Milu (FS 91), going down to Milu.
• References:
  • Gram. 9.3.2.
  • PCP ioo: cf. Marquesan io.

1. n., Hawaiian hawk (Buteo solitarius 🌐), an endemic and endangered hawk with dark and light color phases, confined to forests on the island of Hawaiʻi, where it is regarded by some as an ʻaumakua. The ʻio signified royalty because of its lofty flight, and hence occurs in such names as ʻIolani, royal hawk.

• Examples:
  • Kaha ka ʻio i ka mālie, the ʻio hawk poises in the calm [admiration of a handsome person].
• References:
  • Cf. ʻio mea, ʻio uli, māpumāpu, mio #1.
  • PPN kio.

2. nvi., To twitter, chirp, peep; peeping.

• References:
  • PPN kio.

3. vi., To flee.

• References:
  • PEP kio; cf. Marquesan ʻiʻo.

4. nvi., A round, light-colored bitter gourd (Lagenaria siceraria 🌐), about 30 cm in diameter.

• References:
  • Cf. ipu.

5. nvi., Tag; a Hawaiian game similar to tag; to play these games.

6. nvi., Bundle or food package; loaded with such bundles.

• References:
  • Cf. ʻio paʻakai.

7. n., One who announces the presence of a chief; herald.

8. (Cap.) n., Probably the name of a stroke in lua fighting; also a low stroke in club fighting.

• References:
  • RC 59.

1. n., Flesh, meat, flesh and blood, muscle, sinew, essence, substance.

• Figuratively, a relative; heart or gist of a matter.
• Examples:
  • Make nō ʻo Pāmano i ka ʻiʻo ponoʻī, Pāmano died of his own flesh and blood [said of harm done by relatives].
• Related:
  • For the fern hōʻiʻo see hōʻiʻo.
  • ʻAi ʻiʻo, carniverous.
  • hōʻiʻo Caus/sim.; To become fleshy; to form a corm, fruit, tuber; to grow thick, as a stem.
    • Mai ka pō mai ka ʻoiaʻiʻo, i hōʻiʻo i luna, i hua i luna (hula prayer), truth from out of the night, formed flesh above, formed fruit above.
• References:
  • PPN kiko.

2. vs., True, genuine, significant, real; really, truly, surely, actually; true worth.

• Examples:
  • ʻAʻohe ʻiʻo hoʻi? Not really?
  • No laila, ʻiʻo akula! Fine!
  • Ka mea ʻiʻo makamae, the truly precious thing.
  • He akua ʻiʻo nō Lono, Lono is a true god.
  • E uhaele ʻiʻo aku kākou, let's do go.
  • Ke aliʻi ke piʻi i ka ʻiʻo, the chief is the one ascending to true significance.
• Related:
  • hōʻiʻo Caus/sim.; To take things in earnest or seriously.
• References:
  • Cf. ʻoiaʻiʻo, hanaʻiʻo.

3. n., Grain of wood.

• Examples:
  • ʻIʻo lau liʻi, grain with slight curliness.
  • ʻIʻo nalu, wavy grain.
  • ʻIʻo pū maiʻa, grain straight as a banana stalk.
• References:
  • Cf. ʻiʻo lau maiʻa.

n., Short rib extending upward from the tip of a paddle, on the forward surface.

• Related:
  • Also: ʻupe.
• References:
  • PPN io.