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Hakakā, paio, kaua; mokomoko (general free-for-all, including wrestling and boxing); pāʻumeʻume.

• Related:
  • Also: kūpāpā, kolopā, paika, huʻalepo, makawalu, pilikua.
  • Specialized types include: kuʻikuʻi (boxing); paʻa uma (hand wrestling); lua, kuʻia-lua (bone breaking, spear thrusting, noosing, leaping).
  • Quick to fight, lele koke.
  • To set to fight, as dogs, hoʻokonokono.
  • Following are about 90 names of lua fighting strokes obtained from a newspaper (Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, April 27, 1865), or from Fornander. The names have little to do with fighting. Many are folkloristic and poetic, with names of things important in the old culture. Initial Ka (the article) on some names is optionally omitted.
    • Names of strokes containing names of supernaturals and chiefs: Haehaekamanu-o-Kānealoha, Kaʻaʻēnāaliʻi, Kaihuokapuaʻa (probable reference to Kamapuaʻa), Kamalo-o-Līloa, Kana, Kapiko-o-Wākea, (Ka)puaʻakāhuluhulu (Kamapuaʻa), Kapuahi-a-Kuʻialua, Kapuaʻi-o-Kana, Keake-o-Milu.
    • Containing place names: E-hoʻi-ka-uʻi-o-Mānoa-ua-ahiahi, Hāmākua-i-ka-paia-ʻala-i-ka-hala, Ka-ua-Kīpuʻupuʻu-o-Wai-mea, Ka-ua-Lēhei-o-Maka-wao, Kokia-Wai-lau, Mehameha-Puʻu-loa, Uliuli-ka-pali-o-Kahiki-nui.
    • Containing references to ocean dwellers: Ala-piʻi-a-ka-ōpae, (Ka)-iʻa-hoʻopāpā-ʻili-kanaka, (Ka)-limu-kā-kanaka-o-Mahamoku, (Ka)-uhu-mākaʻikaʻi, (Ka)-waha-o-ka-manō), Mahiki-o-ka-lua-kanaka, ʻŌhi-ki-maka-loa, ʻOʻopu-ola, ʻŌpule-kai, Uhu-makaliʻi.
    • Containing references to birds: Au-koaʻe-ua-mā-lie, Hakakā-a-moa, (Ka)-ʻēheu, (Ka)-ʻio, (Ka)-ʻuaʻu-kaha, (Ka)-ʻuaʻu-komo-hewa, (Ka)-ʻuaʻu-lewalewa, Pua-ka-uahi-haehae-ka-manu.
    • Containing anatomical references: ʻAi-lima-iki, Iwi-koʻo, (Ka)-ʻauwae-lewa, Kālawa-kua, (Ka)-ʻōma-ka-o-ka-ʻīlio, (Ka)-ʻōpeʻa-panipani, (Ka)-pili-maiʻuʻu, ʻŌwelo-ka-huelo-kū.
    • Containing references to artefacts: (Ka)-ʻahu-ula, (Ka)-lei-o-manu, Ka-malo-hei (see also under supernaturals).
    • Names of other strokes: ʻAhamaka, ʻAho-lehia, Hana-kaʻi-luna, Hana-kau-luna, Hanu-i-piʻi, (Ka)-hau-komo, (Ka)-hau-palemo, Ka-heʻe-pālaha, (Ka)-hili-kolo, ([Ka]-hihi-kolo), Kahului, Kākā-ʻau-kī, Kālaha, Kalena, (Ka)-loloa-maiau, (Ka)-luʻeluʻe, (Ka)-maʻi-ʻawa, Kāmuku, Kānihi, Kau-nunu, Kawaʻe-kū, (Ke)-aho-lehi, (Ke)-āmio, Koʻūkoʻū, Kua-nunu, Kūʻia-kānaka-hele-o-ka-pō, Kuʻikahi-a-Mēhēʻula, Lāhei, Lēhei, Malalei, Mālama, Mālama-ka-ʻōpua-hiki, Mālama-kūʻē, Mālama-kūloko, Mālama-kūwaho, Nā-ānuenue-ʻewalu, ʻOā-kiʻi-ala, O-hana-ke-keʻaua-mai-kaʻi, Ohiʻikau, ʻOkoikua, ʻŌnohi-kaʻi-ʻole-pohihihi-ka-lawaiʻa-o-ka-lāʻino, Paʻina-kuli, Pala-ʻole, Pāpala-kāʻili-ʻū, Popoki, Puʻupā, ʻUla-ka-maka-iā-Kuikui-pahu.
• References:
  • See saying, helu #4, wai ʻauʻau, fighter, cockfighting, wrestling.