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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.

hehele, To land, as an airplane or bird.

• Source:
  • Niʻihau.

poss. pron., My; mine; belonging to me; what belongs to me.

To let down a net for fish.

To let a net down for fish.

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.