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1. nvt., vs., To enter, go into, penetrate, include; to join, as a class or organization; to sink, as a heavily laden canoe; to entertain or feel, as an emotion; entered, filled, included; entrance.

• Examples:
  • E nānā ʻoe i kō lākou komo ʻana … a ʻike ʻoe ua pau loa i ke komo … (FS 111), watch them coming in … and when you see they are all in …
• Related:
  • Komo ʻana, access, admission, entry, entrance.
  • Haumana komo hou, freshman, new pupil.
  • ʻAhaʻaina komo, initiation feast.
  • Komo mai! Come in, welcome!
  • Mele komo, welcoming song.
  • Komo mai e ʻai, come in and eat.
  • Komo maila ka huhū, filled with wrath.
  • Ua komo ka waʻa, the canoe is filled [as with fish].
  • Komo i ka hale, enter the house.
  • E komo no kuʻu hoʻoilina ia ʻīlio, including for my heirs this dog.
  • Komo ʻole ka wai, waterproof.
  • hoʻokomo Caus/sim.; To insert, put or let in, enter, pack, penetrate, import, sink into, deposit, install, admit.
    • See niho hoʻokomo.
    • Hoʻokomo waiwai hoʻopae mai, entry of goods.
    • Hoʻokomo makani, hoʻokomo ea, to ventilate.
    • Hoʻokomo i ke kālā i ka panakō, deposit money in the bank.
• References:
  • Gram. 4.5.
  • PPN tomo .

2. vt., To dress, put on, wear (any garment, formerly only lower garments).

• Related:
  • hoʻokomo Caus/sim.; To dress another person.

3. n., Ring, thimble, tenon.

kikino, Ring.

• Existing dictionary word
• Related:
  • Manamana komo. Ring finger. Also: manamana pili.
• References:
  • See helu komo.

Komo i loko o ka papa. To take a class. Ua komo wau i loko o ka papa ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi i kēlā makahiki aku nei. I took a Hawaiian language class last year. Also komo i ka papa. Cf. aia.

1. v., To enter; to go in, as into a house.

2. v., To put in, as the hand into a calabash in eating poi; to dip; to rinse, but not so strong as holoi.

3. v., To sink or to go under water, as a canoe.

4. v., To put on clothes. NOTE.—To put on clothes in Hawaiian idiom is to enter into them.

5. v., Hoʻokomo. To insert, as a ring on the finger, i. e., the finger enters the ring. Kin. 41:42.

6. v., To put on, as a hat or crown; that is, the head enters the hat.

7. v., To enter, as into another's country.

8. v., To cause to enter, as joy into one's heart.

9. v., To put on, as a dress, i. e., to go into it. Oihk. 8:7.

10. v., To fill full, as a canoe or ship; hence,

11. v., To sink, as a canoe or ship heavy loaded.

1. s., The name of anything that enters; a tenon. Puk. 26:17. The handle of a hoe, &c.

2. s., Anything that is entered; a fingering; a thimble, &c.

3. s., The filling up of any empty space; ka piha o ka mea hakahaka.

adj., That which relates to putting in, filling or inserting.

adj., That which relates to putting in, filling or inserting.

1. n., The name of anything that enters; a tenon.

2. n., Anything that is entered, as a finger-ring; a thimble, etc.

3. n., The filling up of any empty space; ka piha o ka mea hakahaka.

1. v., To enter; to go into.

2. v., To be loaded to the proper limit, said of a canoe; to be freighted: Ua komo ka waa.

3. v., To dress; to attire.

To sink, as a heavily loaded canoe. The load could have consisted of fish, which can shift in uneasy waters.

To wear or put on any garment, formerly only for the lower part of the body.

tenon; finger ring, thimble: to enter.