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Reduplication of koi #1.

nvs., Weight, responsibility; stress, accent; heavy, weighty; prominent, prime, urgent, serious, influential; emphatic, stressed; harsh, severe.

  • Examples:
    • Aia ke koʻikoʻi ma kēia hua ʻōlelo, the stress is on this word.
    • Maluna oʻu kēlā koʻikoʻi, that responsibility is on me.
    • Koʻikoʻi ka leo, loud, authoritative voice.

v. See KOI. To urge; to be hard upon; to be heavy.

2. To carry a heavy burden on a stick in two bundles.

3. To ask; to entreat with perseverance.

4. Hoo. To compel; to exercise authority over.

5. To bear down upon; to treat with rigor or violence.

s. Substance; strength; spirit.

2. Honor; substance. Iob. 21:7.

3. Weight; heaviness; solidity; riches.

4. Hoo. Rigor; severity. Puk. 1:13.

adj. Heavy; weighty. Sol. 27:3.

2. Substantial; honorable; valiant, as persons of integrity. 2. Sam. 23:19.

3. Applied to words or speech, full of meaning; emphatic; also, rough; inconsiderate; olelo koikoi, a rough speech. Kin. 4:2,7. Poe koikoi, honorable persons. Ios. 14:1.

4. Hoo. Oppressive; hard; cruel. Zek. 10:4.

1. Heavy; weighty.

2. Substantial; honorable; valiant, as persons of integrity: poe koikoi, honorable persons.

3. Applied to words or speech: full of meaning; emphatic; also, rough; inconsiderate: olelo koikoi, a rough speech.

1. Substance: strength; spirit.

2. Honor; substance.

3. Weight; heaviness; solidity.

4. Rigor; severity. See hookoikoi.

1. To be heavy; to have material weight.

2. To be weighty; to be important; to have influence.

Koikoi (kō'-ĭ-kō'-i), v.

/ kō'-ĭ-kō'-i / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

[Freq. of koi, to urge, to insist upon.] To urge persistently.

To urge; to be hard upon; to entreat with perseverance; responsibility, weight; to stress, emphasize.

heavy, substantial, honorable.

v. hoo-to compel, exercise authority over, to bear down upon, to treat with violence.

s. substance, strength, spirit.

adj. heavy, hence substantial, honorable as persons of integrity, weighty, applied to words full of meaning.

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