Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. Land agent. Keelikolani v. Robinson, 2 Haw. 522, 544 (1862). 2. Agent appointed by the chief. (It is only in the later statutes that the chiefs or landlords are referred to as konohikis.) Territory v. Bishop Trust Co., Ltd., 41 Haw. 358, 361-362 (1956). 3. “Konohiki, when used as a noun, designated the person having charge of the land in behalf of the king or chief or other person to whom the ahupuaa had been assigned or awarded, but the word ʻkonohiki’ is in common use as an adjective denoting land which is privately owned in contradistinction to ʻaupuni’ or government land.” In re Title of Kioloku, 25 Haw. 357, 360 (1920). 4. Chief or landlord. State v. Hawaiian Dredging Co., 48 Haw. 152, 182 (1964). 5. “Konohiki means ʻa head man of an ahupuaʻa land division’.” McBryde Sugar Co. v. Robinson, 54 Haw. 174, 178 (1973). 6. Landlord. Territory v. Bishop Trust Co., 41 Haw. 597 (1957) (Territory II); Carter v. Territory, 14 Haw. 465, 473 (1902). 7. Head men under the chiefs or other persons (the landowners). Homer v. Kumuliilii, 10 Haw. 174, 178 (1895). 8. Head man of an ahupuaʻa land division under the chief; land or fishing rights under control of the konohiki-, such rights are often called konohiki rights (PE). 9. The head man of an ahupuaʻa, a land division; a person who has charge of a land with others under him; an agent who managed the chief’s lands (AP). 10. Landholder (HRH). 11. Land belonging to a konohiki.