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[This word, like the Latin sacro, signifies to devote, to give up or give over to a good or bad end, that is, to bless or to curse according to the character of the thing devoted and the purpose to which it is devoted.]

1. To bless or to curse, according to the prayer of the priest.

2. To bless: to pay for the safety of one with an alana or sacrifice.

3. To be sanctified, that is, set apart or devoted to the service of the gods; e molia ka ai i ke akua.

4. To worship; to sacrifice; to offer to the gods.

5. To save alive; e hoomana, e kaumaha, e amaama, e hoola.

6. To curse; to give over or devote to destruction; give to be sacrificed; to anathematize.

7. To destroy; e hoomake. (Molia is to bless or to curse according to some following word or phrase: Molia mai e ola, bless him. let him live; molia mai e make. curse him, let him die; molia ka poe kipi, curse the rebels; molia i ke alii e make, curse the chief, let him perish; molia i ke kukui e pio, curse the lamp, let it go out; molia i ka ua e oki, curse the rain. let it stop; molia i ka hekili aole e hekili hou mai, curse the thunder, let it thunder no more.)

MOL 439 MOM

v., To let go; to loosen; to release; to slacken, as a rope that is too tight; to let down, as by a rope; to let down from the shoulder. Kin. 24:18.

2. To dismiss or send away, as on an errand; to send away, as a messenger; to allow to come. Lunk. 13:8.

3. To put down, as one in authority; to dethrone.

4. To pay out, as a rope or cable in casting anchor.

5. To loose, i. e., to cast, as a net into the water for fish; to take fish in a net, i. e., to let down the net for them; to become calm, as the mind after intense anxiety; to be assuaged. Laieik. 77.

6. To give liberty; to suffer or permit to be done.

7. To cause to do; to suffer to be done. Kanl. 18:10.

8. E kuu i ka uhane, to give up the ghost; to die. Kin. 35:29.

9. To fail; to give up; to cease to help. Kanl. 31:6, 8.

10. Hookuu. To excuse; to let go; to send away, as a multitude. Puk. 3:18.

11. To lead out of an inclosure; to deliver from difficulty; to set free from; e hoomaha, pau ka nae make.

1. vt., To give, transfer, go (followed by directionals).

• Examples:
  • E hō mai i ka ʻai (Kin. 43.31), set on food.
  • Hō mai i wai noʻu, give me some water.
  • Ē ke aloha, hō mai he leo (FS 275), O my love, give your voice.
  • E hō aʻe kāua, let us go.
  • Hō aʻe kāua i ka ihu o ka lio i ka ulu kukui (song), let's turn the nose of the horse toward the candlenut grove.
• Related:
  • No caus/sim. derivation with hō has been noted. For the word often written hooho, see oho.
• References:
  • Hal. 15.5.
  • PPN foaki, PCP soo: cf. Penrhyn soo, Yasuda 15.

2. vi., To wheeze, breathe hard.

3. n., Hoe, colter of a plow.

• Source:
  • English.
• Examples:
  • Me kāna hō, a me kāna koʻilipi (1 Sam. 13.20), with his colter and his axe.

hamani, To give and go, in basketball.

• Literally, give and run.
• Examples:
  • Ma ka hāʻawiaholo ʻia aku o ke kinipōpō iā ia i ʻāhaʻi ai ʻo Limanui a hiki loa i ka hīnaʻi. Limanui took off with the ball on the give and go all the way to the basket.

1. nvs. Goodness, uprightness, morality, moral qualities, correct or proper procedure, excellence, well-being, prosperity, welfare, benefit, behalf, equity, sake, true condition or nature, duty; moral, fitting, proper, righteous, right, upright, just, virtuous, fair, beneficial, successful, in perfect order, accurate, correct, eased, relieved; should, ought, must, necessary.

• Examples:
  • Pono ʻole, unjust, unrighteous, dishonest, unprincipled, unfair, wrong.
  • No kou pono, in your behalf.
  • Ka pono o ka lehulehu, public welfare.
  • Nā pono lāhui kānaka, human rights.
  • Nā pono o nā wāhine, women's rights.
  • Ka pono kahiko, the old morality or moral system.
  • Pono i ke kānāwai, legal, legality.
  • Pono ʻole ka manaʻo, disturbed, worried, upset.
  • Me ka pono, respectfully [complimentary close in letters].
  • Nā mea e maopopo ai kona pono, proofs in his own favor, his defense.
  • Kōkua no ka pono o ka lehulehu, help for the public welfare.
  • Ka noʻonoʻo e pono ai kēia hana, the study necessary for this work.
  • Loaʻa ka pono i ka lāhui mamuli o ke ahonui o ka ʻelele, the people were benefited by the patience of the delegate.
  • E pono iāʻoe ke hele, you should go.
  • Pono ʻo ʻoe ke hele, you should be the one to go.
  • Pono i ke keiki e hele, the child ought to go.
  • Ke ui mai nei ʻoe, ʻaʻohe aʻu pono, when you turn to me, I have no rights.
  • E ʻeha nō a e pono, no ka pinana nō i ke kumulāʻau, serves you right to be hurt, since you climbed the tree.
  • Aia ka pono, ʻo ka pae aku, what is necessary is to reach shore.
  • Pono e pili paʻa loa, inalienable rights.
• Related:
  • hoʻopono Caus/sim.; Righteous, respectable, correct, upright; to behave correctly.
  • Hoʻopono ʻole, unjust, dishonest.
• References:
  • PCP pono.

2. vs. Completely, properly, rightly, well, exactly, carefully, satisfactorily, much (an intensifier).

• Examples:
  • Pau pono, completely finished.
  • Piha pono, completely filled; complete, as a thought; clear.
  • Nānā pono, look or examine carefully.
  • Aʻo pono ʻia, well-taught.
  • Ua loaʻa pono ʻo Lawa mā e ʻaihue ana, Lawa and others were caught in the act of stealing.
  • I luna pono o ka puʻu (For. 5:61), at the very top of the hill.

3. n. Property, resources, assets, fortune, belongings, equipment, household goods, furniture, gear of any kind, possessions, accessories, necessities.

4. n. Use, purpose, plan.

• Examples:
  • Ē kuʻu haku, pale ka pono! ʻAʻohe pono i koe, hoʻokahi nō pono ʻo ka hoʻi wale nō koe o kākou, kaukaʻi aku nei hoʻi ka pono i kō kaikuahine muli lā hoʻi … (Laie 419; priest is advising his lord to give up quest of Lāʻie and depend on his sister's help), my lord, set aside the plan; there is no hope left; the only hope is for us to go back and depend on your youngest sister …
  • Nā ʻāpana ʻāina aupuni no ka pono home noho wale nō, government land parcels for the purpose of dwelling houses only.

5. n. Hope.

• Examples:
  • Ua pau ka pono a ke kauka, the doctor has lost hope.
• References:
  • See ex., pono #4.

6. vs. Careless, informal, improper, any kind of (preceding a stem).

• Examples:
  • Pono ʻai, to eat in any way or anything, take potluck.
  • Pono hana, to work any way that suits one.
  • Pono nō i ka noho, living any old way, shiftless.
  • Pono lole, any kind of clothes.
  • Mai pono hana ʻoe, akā e hana pono, don't work carelessly, but work carefully.

1. Directional particle, towards the speaker, this way.

• Examples:
  • Come, come here, welcome; say, give (used idiomatically without preverb particles).
  • Hele mai, come (cf. hele aku, go).
  • He mai (Kel. 19)! Come! Welcome! Hāʻawi mai, give me.
  • Mai hoʻi kauwahi wai, do give me a little water.
  • Mai e ʻai, come and eat.
• Related:
  • Gram. 2.7, 7.2; mai + directional la is written maila and often pronounced meila but not sung that way.
• References:
  • PPN mai.

2. preposition, From.

• Examples:
  • Mai ʻō ā ō, from there to there; from one point to another, everywhere.
  • Mai iā Maui, from Maui.
  • Mai hea mai ʻoe? Where did you come from?
• Related:
  • Also mai … mai: see ex., māhunehune. (Gram. 9.8.) Mai Hilo mai ka lei, the lei is from Hilo.
• References:
  • PPN mai, PPN mei.

3. Imminence-marking particle, Almost, nearly, as though.

• Examples:
  • (Gram. 5.4.) Mai hoʻokuʻiʻia au e ke kaʻa, I was almost hit by a car.
  • Mai ʻike ʻole ʻia nō, [he] was hardly seen at all (said sarcastically of a show-off).
• References:
  • PPN mei.

4. Preverb particle of negative command. Don't.

• Examples:
  • Mai ʻai ʻoe, don't eat.
• References:
  • Gram. 5.4.

1. v., To let go; to loosen; to release; to slacken, as a rope that is too tight; to let down, as by a rope; to let down from the shoulder.

2. v., To loose, that is, to cast, as a net into the water for fish; to take fish in a net, that is, to let down the net for them.

3. v., To become calm, as the mind after intense anxiety; to be assuaged. Laieik. p. 77.

4. v., To give liberty.

5. v., To cause to do; to suffer or permit to be done.

6. v., To dismiss: e kuu i ka uhane, to give up the ghost; to die.

7. v., To fail; to give up.

8. v., To cease to help.

v. This word, like the Latin sacro, signifies to devote, to give up or give over to a good or bad end, that is, to bless or to curse according to the character of the thing devoted and the purpose to which it is devoted.

1. To bless or to curse, according to the prayer of the priest.

2. To bless; to pray for the safety of one.

3. To be sanctified, i.e., set apart or devoted to the service of the gods; e molia ka ai i ke akua.

4. To worship; to sacrifice; to offer to the gods; to save alive; e hoomana, e kaumaha. e amaama, e hoola.

5. To curse; to give over or devote to destruction; to be sacrificed.

6. To anathematize. Isa. 34:2. To destroy; e hoomake.

7. In the use of the word, molia is to bless or to curse according to some following word or phrase. NOTE.— Some of the forms are as follows: molia mai e ola, bless him, let him live; molia mai e make, curse him, let him die; molia ka poe kipi, curse the rebels; molia i ke alii e make, curse the chief, let him perish; molia i ke kukui e pio, curse the lamp, let it go out; molia i ka ua e oki, curse the rain, let it stop; molia i ka hekili aole e hekili hou mai, curse the thunder, let it thunder no more.

1. nvt., vs., To release, let go, discharge, abandon, free, dismiss, give up, yield, slacken; to pay out, as a line or cable; to settle, as earth; to diminish, as stream water; to fail to help (Kanl. 31.6); to finish, as a chant; to adjourn, put down, subside.

• Figuratively, to be at peace (see idioms that follow).
• Examples:
  • Kuʻu aku ʻoe, relax.
  • Kuʻu i ka ʻuhane (Kin. 35.29), to give up the ghost [die].
  • Kuʻu ka hanu, breath is abandoned [death].
  • Kuʻu ka luhi, to be freed from cares, to rest [die].
  • Kuʻu ka nae, to get one's breath, rest.
  • Kuʻu i ka luʻuluʻu, put down the burden.
  • Ke kuʻu ākea ʻana i nā paʻahao, parole of prisoners.
• hoʻokuʻu Caus/sim.; To release, let go, put down, dismiss, send away, abandon, disperse, adjourn; to expel, as from school; to discharge, as from work; to free, acquit, let, permit, excuse, exempt, liberate; to settle, clear up; slope of a hill rare.
  • Hīmeni hoʻokuʻu, closing hymn.
  • Kī hoʻokuʻu, slack key.
  • Hihia ua hoʻokuʻu ʻia, case [of law] settled.
  • Hoʻokuʻu kāua, let's stop [as a meeting].
  • Hoʻokuʻu ʻia mai ka hopu ʻia ʻana, exemption from arrest.
  • Hoʻokuʻu maikaʻi, honorable discharge.
• References:
  • PPN tuku.

2. nvt., Type of net let down from a canoe; gill net; to set or lower a net or catch in a net.

• Examples:
  • E kuʻu ana ka iʻa (FS 243), the fish were being netted.
  • Kuʻu ka pua ʻamaʻama mai ka loko iʻa, net young mullets from the fish pond.
• References:
  • Cf. kūpō.

3. possessive, My, mine (this form may replace both kaʻu and koʻu; it is frequently used before ipo and lei and kinship terms and expresses affection (see ex., kei #1).

• References:
  • Gram. 8.4, 9.6.

1. nvt., To cut longitudinally, shave, plane, comb, press, rub or stroke, as in a massage, with gentle pressure of the open palm of the hand; to scrape; to run the fingers along the side of a poi bowl so as to remove the poi clinging to the side; comb; scraper, as for olonā fiber.

• Related:
  • Hale kahi olonā (Laie 607), fiber-combing house.
  • hoʻokahi Caus/sim.
• References:
  • PPN tafi, but cf. Fijian tasi, to escrape.

2. numeral, One, only one, alone, lone, some (sometimes following the numeral classifiers ʻa- and ʻe-, or hoʻo-); also, besides, too, single; fellow worker, wife, companion; someone, someone else, a certain (less common than kekahi); unit.

• Examples:
  • ʻO au kahi e hele, I'm going too.
  • Naʻu kahi, give me some.
  • Pehea kahi o ʻolua? How is your companion (wife, spouse, colleague)?
  • Ka ʻāina o kahi (Kep. 159), someone else's land.
• Related:
  • hoʻokahi Caus/sim.; One, one only, alone; oneness, separately, single, singular, solitude, sole; together as a unit, at the same time; to make one, unite; to be similar; same; a, an.
    • Noho hoʻokahi, to live alone.
    • Hele hoʻokahi, to go alone.
    • E ʻimi kākou ma ka mea e ho ʻokahi ai ka mana ʻo ʻana, let us seek to unite our thoughts into one.
    • Hoʻokahi kō kāua noho pū ʻana, let us live together.
    • Hoʻokahi nō makua kāne, the same father.
    • Hoʻokahi nō ʻano, of similar nature; synonym, synonymous.
    • O ia lā hoʻokahi nō, that very day.
• References:
  • See ex., kāmau #1.
  • PPN taha [cf. Pawley 1966:54], PPN tasi.

3. loc. n., Place, location (contraction of ka wahi, not preceded by ke with this meaning); duty; where; ill case of, approximately, about. (For use of possessives o and a with kahi, see Gram. 8.6.)

• Examples:
  • Hele ma kahi ʻē! Go away! Get out!
  • Aia ka ʻai i kahi ʻē kahi i waiho ai (Kep. 57), the food is left elsewhere.
  • Mai kahi ʻē ā noho mai, from far away but yet sitting here [said rudely of intruders or uninvited guests].
  • ʻAuhea kahi e hele ai? Where's the place to go?
  • ʻAuhea kahi o Kupa mā? Where's the residence of Kupa and his family?
  • Ma kahi hoʻokahi, at the same place, at one place.
  • A koe ʻo kahi wale nō e paʻa ana i ka lima (For. 5:711), only the handle [of the spear] was left.
  • Ma kahi o ʻumi kapuaʻi, approximately ten feet.
  • Ka mea iāia kahi i paʻa ai kona komo ʻana, the one whose duty it was to register his entrance.
  • Ā ma kahi o ke komohewa, in case of trespassing.
• Related:
  • Kahi ʻē, elsewhere.
  • Ma kahi ʻē, ma kahi ʻoko ʻa, absent.

v. To ascend; to go up in various ways.

2. To ascend, as a mountain or hill. Mat. 5:1.

3. To go up, as from a low place to a higher. Ios. 4:16. 17.

4. To mount, as into a vehicle, carriage, cart, &c.

5. Metaphorically, to come from darkness to light.

6. To go up, i. e., to strike upon, as the shadow of a substance upon something else; ina e pii ke aka o ke kanaka maluna o ke alii, make ke kanaka, if the shadow of a common man should fall upon a chief, the man must die.

7. To throw up from the mouth; to vomit.

8. Hoo. To accuse; to charge one with a misdemeanor or crime; to give information against one; hoopii kekahi i ke kumu no na haumana.

9. To have a lawsuit; e hoopii i ke kanawai.

10. To appeal from the decision of one court to another.

1. nvt. To scratch, mark, check, draw, sketch, cut, cut open or slice lengthwise, as fish or animals; to operate, as on the sick; to give a grade or mark to; to engrave; a line in mathematics; punctuation or other mark, as an accent mark; stripe, as in the flag or of enlisted men in the Armed Forces; a grade, as in school; checkmark, long striped cloth.

• Examples:
  • He hana kaha ea, deprivation of livelihood; literally, life-cutting activity.
  • He aha koʻu kaha? What was my grade?
• Related:
  • hoʻokaha Caus/sim.
• References:
  • See kaha kiʻi, kaha palapalaʻāina.
  • PPN tafa.

2. loc.n. Place (often followed by a qualifier, as kahakai, kahaone, kahawai, and used without ke, as hele i kahakai, go to the beach); in legends, a hot dry shore (PH 74, 84; FS 173).

• Examples:
  • (Gram. 8.6.) ʻO kēia ka mea ulu o koʻu kaha, this is what grows on my place.
• References:
  • PPN tafa.

3. vi. To swoop, as a kite; to be poised, soar, as a bird (less used than kīkaha); to go by, pass by, to turn and go on; to surf, body surf (FS 153).

• Examples:
  • Kaha ka lā ma ke kua o Lehua (UL 238), the sun passes to the back of Lehua [Island].
• Related:
  • hoʻokaha Caus/sim.
• References:
  • PEP tafa, tasa.

4. vt. To desolate, plunder, cheat.

• Examples:
  • Ua kaha akula ka nalu o kuʻu ʻāina, the waves of my land have swept everything away [said of famine].
• Related:
  • hoʻokaha Caus/sim.; to extort.
• References:
  • Cf. pākaha.

5. n. Stage of a foetus in which limbs begin to develop.

• Related:
  • Also: mana.

6. vs. Proud, haughty.

• Rare
• References:
  • See hoʻokahakaha.

7. n. A kind of tapa.

• References:
  • Kam. 76:111.

1. v., In an active sense, to hang; to hang up; to suspend, as an article to be out of the way; to crucify or hang, as a criminal.Kin. 40:22.

2. To hang, tie or gird on, as a sword; kau i ka pahi kaua. Puk. 32:27.

3. To put upon or place a thing in some designated place; to put inan elevated situation; to mount a horse; to go on board a ship or canoe.

4. To overhang, as the heavens over the earth.

5. To fall upon; to embrace affectionately, with ai. Kin. 46:29.

6. To put upon one, as a heavy burden. Nah.11:11.

7. To set or fix the boundries of a land or country.

8. To put down, as words on paper. See kakau. To write; to dot; hence,

9. To give publicity to a thing; to promulgate, as a law; i kau aku oukou i kanawai maikai, that you may establish good laws.

10. To set before one, as food.

11. To tempt, as in taking birds with a snare.

12. In a neuter sense, to light down upon, as a bird; as the spirit or divine influence upon one. Nah.11:26.

13. To come down upon one unexpectedly.

14. Kau pono kona maka, to set or direct one's face or desire.

15. To rest upon; to stretch out or over.

16. To come upon one, as a suffering or calamity.

17. To rehearse in the hearing of another that he may learn.

18. A kau ka hamere ma kekahi lima, he took the hammer in one hand. Lunk. 4:21. To lay or place the hand upon one for evil.

19. Hookau. To set against; to resist. Lunk. 7:22.

20. To appoint against; to come upon. Ier. 15:3.

21. To bring upon; to cause to fall upon.

22. To rest; to place. Kanl. 7:23.

23. Kau aku i kau hale, to go about from house to house; to go about idly. See definition 11.

1. nvi. To go down, descend; downhill, towards the sea; to subside; go south or before the wind; descent.

• Related:
  • hoʻoiho Caus/sim.
• References:
  • PPN hifo.

2. n. Core, as of an apple, breadfruit, or pandanus; cob, as of corn; heart, as of celery; spongy white growth in the center of a sprouted coconut, sometimes called coconut sponge (cf. lolo niu); pith, spadix; flesh of the octopus after the skin is removed; axis, as of the earth; axle, as of a wheel.

• Related:
  • Iho ʻole, without core, said of koa trees easily shaped into canoes.
  • Also haku.
• References:
  • PPN uso, PCP iso.

3. n. Collective terms for inner layers of white sleeping tapas below the kilohana.

4. n. Block used in plaiting a hat to give shape to the crown.

• Related:
  • Also: pahu pāpale.

5. n. Battery, electric plug.

6. directional. Down, below.

• Examples:
  • Maluna iho, just barely on top.
  • Hele iho, go down, descend.
• Related:
  • Iho + demonstrative la is pronounced and written as a single word, ihola.
• References:
  • Table 12, Gram. 7.2.
  • PPN hifo.

7. Same part. and reference as above but with reflexive meaning, often following words describing activities of the body, as eating, drinking, thinking.

• Examples:
  • ʻAi iho, to eat.
  • Noʻonoʻo iho, to think.
  • Make wai ihola ʻo Kāwika (Oihn. 11.17), David was thirsty.
• References:
  • PPN hifo.

8. Same part. and reference as above, with meaning “self” personally.

• Examples:
  • E hana ʻoia nona iho, he will work for himself.
  • Paʻakiki ma kāna iho (Kep. 103), stubborn with his own self.
  • ʻO au iho nō me ka mahalo, I am, yours respectfully.

9. Same part. and reference as iho 6–8, but used with words of time, usually present or future, but past if followed by nei.

• Examples:
  • Mahope iho, afterwards.
  • Kēia Lāpule iho, this coming Sunday.
  • ʻO ko manawa ihola nō ia, it's just the time.
  • ʻĀnō iho nei, just now, just a short time ago, recently.
  • I kēia mau lā iho nei, a few days ago.

1. loc.n., Before, ahead, forward, in advance, future, front, first, former, foremost, primary, principal; previously, beforehand; oldest, older brother or sister; senior branch of a family; leader, senior partner, senior; more than.

• Examples:
  • I mua! Mamua! Forward! Holo i mua, to progress, go forward.
  • Kēia mua iho, the near future.
  • Kēia mua aʻe, fairly near in the future.
  • Kēia mua aku, distant future.
  • Mamua aku nei, some time ago.
  • Ua noho ʻoia i mua o ke aliʻi, he stayed in the presence of the chief.
  • I mua ou, before you.
  • I mua i hope, back and forth.
  • ʻAʻole i … mamua, never before.
  • ʻAʻole au i ʻike iāia mamua, I've never seen him before.
  • ʻO kō mākou mua loa ia, he is our eldest.
  • Na ka mua, na ka muli, belonging to the older [sibling], belonging to the younger [sibling] [a way of describing the parentage of first cousins].
  • Hele mua, older brother or sister, senior branch of a family; to go ahead or first.
  • ʻOi kēia mamua o kēlā, this is better than that; literally, superior this before that.
• Related:
  • hoʻomua Caus/sim.; To push forward, to do something first; to claim to be senior; to advance to seniority; to give the rights of seniority to a junior.
• References:
  • Gram. 8.6.
  • PPN muʻa.

2. n., Men's eating house.

1. Mine, my; to release, abandon, let go, free. 2. A releasing, a letting go, to release, to give liberty, to dismiss; my, mine, belonging to me (AP). Also, hoʻokuʻu.

v. to let go, to loosen, to release to let down us by a rope, to slacken as a rope, to dismiss or send away, to put down as one in authority, to dethrone, to pay out as a rope or cable in casting anchor, to loose, to cast as a net into the water for fish, to give liberty, to suffer or permit to be done. Hoo-to excuse, to let go, to send away us a multitude, to lead out of an enclosure, to deliver, set free from.

v. To surround as water does an island.

2. To inclose; to be hemmed in, as one person by multitudes.

3. To surround, i. e., to get round one by deceit; to prevail over; to get the better of.

4. To be surrounded; to be deceived; to be insnared; to be taken.

5. To go around; to encircle; hence,

6. To finish; to complete; to terminate.

7. To close, as an appointed period of time; as the end of the year. 1 Nal. 20:22. To finish the period of gestation. 1 Sam. 4:19.

8. To gain possession of; hee o Kalanikupule ia Kamehameha, a puni Oahu a me Molokai, a me Lanai a me Maui a me Kahoolawe, Kalanikupule fled before Kamehameha, and he came in possession of Oahu and Molokai and Lanai and Maui and Kahoolawe.

9. To covet; to desire greatly. See Note below.

10. To be addicted to; to be influenced by, as pleasure or gain; ua puni na ’lii ame na kanaka i na hana ino loa, the chiefs and people were addicted to very evil practices.

11. Hoo. To give false testimony; to deceive.

12. To surround for protection. Iob. 1:10. NOTE.—Puni is connected with many other words and signifies, influenced, led by, or addicted to, as well as deceived; puni lealea, addicted to pleasure; puni waiwai, greedy of property; puni hula, given to the practice of the hula, &c.

s. Indebtedness; the state of being in debt; he poe aie kakou, we are debtors.

2. A debt; that which is due for any cause; e lawe aie, to go in debt for a thing. Neh. 5:2. E haawi aie, to give (lend) on usury. Kanl. 23:20.

1. Indebtedness; the state of being in debt: he poe aie kakou, we are debtors.

2. A debt; that which is due for any cause: e lawe aie, to go in debt for a thing. E haawi aie, to give (lend) on usury.

1. nvs., Water, liquid or liquor of any kind other than sea water (see ex., koni), juice, sap, honey; liquids discharged from the body, as blood, semen; color, dye, pattern; to flow, like water, fluid.

• Examples:
  • Komo wai ē ʻia, foreign liquid has entered [of a child conceived by other than the married husband].
  • I wai noʻu, give me some water [let's have a contest or fight].
  • Wai ihola ke koko, the blood flowed.
  • Wai o ka lehua, lehua flower honey.
  • Hoʻokahi wai ʻo ka like, the sameness of a single dye [unity].
  • E wai kahi ka pono i mānalo, better sweeten with a single color [unity to find serenity].
  • Ua hewa i ka wai, great quantities of water.
  • Hoʻolana i ka wai ke ola, life floats on water [near death].
  • Paʻihi ʻoe lā, lilo i ka wai, ʻaʻohe ʻike iho i ka hoa mua, well-adorned are you, carried to water [wealth], not knowing former friends.
• Related:
  • Wai o ke kāne, semen.
  • Wai o ka wahine, menstruation or other discharge.
  • Wai o kaunu, thrilling discharges of love.
• References:
  • PPN wai.

2. (Cap.) n., Place names beginning with Wai-, river, stream.

• Examples:
  • Nā Waiʻehā, the four waters, a poetic name for Wailuku, Waiehu, Waiheʻe and Waikapū, Maui.

3. n., Grain in stone.

4. vi., To retain, place, leave, remain, earn, deposit (see more common waiho, waihona, waiwai, and less common wailana; waina #2, wai ʻūlili).

• Related:
  • Hale wai, prison.
• References:
  • PCP wai.

5. interrogative pronoun, Who, whom, whose, what (animate antecedents).

• Examples:
  • ʻO wai! Who?
  • ʻO wai kou inoa? What is your name?
  • ʻO wai ia? Who is he? (angrily) Who does he think he is?
  • Kō wai, kā wai? Whose?
  • No wai? For or in honor of whom?
  • Na wai? By whom?
  • Kō wai kaʻa kēlā? Whose car is that?
  • Iā wai ʻoe i kamaʻilio ai? To whom did you speak?
  • Na wai nō i ʻōlelo iāʻoe e hele malaila? Who told you to go there?
• Related:
  • Also spelled ai.
• References:
  • Gram. 8.5.
  • PPN hai.

6. n., Type of house with thatch purlins separated by a width of two fingers

• References:
  • For. 5:645.

v. Ku and ke, to drive off. To drive or force away.

2. To hunch or push off, i. e., to give a hint with the elbow to go.

3. Hoo. To cast out; to expel; to drive away. Nah. 32:21.

4. To be angry at.

1. To nudge; to push gently.

2. To hunch or push off, that is, to give a hint with the elbow to go.

v. To strive hard to excel another; to urge on; to go ahead.

2. To finish; to make an end.

3. To give or parcel out alike; na ia keiki e nai na moku e pau ai. Laieik. 10.

1. vs., Here and there, everywhere but the right place.

• Examples:
  • Kuhi pāʻēʻē, to misdirect, mislead, give inaccurate information.
• Related:
  • hoʻopāʻēʻē Caus/sim.; To cause to go astray, mislead, misrepresent.

2. vs., Supernatural.

• Examples:
  • Ka lāhui kino pāʻēʻē i kapa ʻia he Melehune, a people with supernatural bodies, called Melehune.

v., To be or to act the cock among the fowls. Hoomoamoa. To go in company with, as a cock goes with hens to give warning in case of danger; to be intimate with; e hoopunahele.

v. to enter, go in, to put in as the hand into a calabash in eating poi, to enter as into a door. Hoo-to insert as a ring on the finger, to sink in the water, to bring in, to put on as a hat or crown; to give, i. e. cause to enter as joy into one's heart, to put on as a dress; to sink as a canoe or ship heavy loaded; kapa komo, a change of raiment.