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Prefixes indicating a quality or state.

Nā LepiliTags: grammar

1. Common nominalizing suffix, sometimes with shortening of a long vowel in the base.

2. Rare pas/imp.; suffix.

3. His, her (in poss. kāna, kona).

  • References:
    • Gram. 8.2.
    • PPN -na.

Nā LepiliTags: grammar

1. vs., Calmed, quieted, pacified, assuaged, soothed; settled, as a claim.

  • Examples:
    • E hoʻi, ē Pele, i ke kuahiwi, ua nā kō lili, kō inaina (chant) return, O Pele, to the mountain; rage jealousy, your rage are pacified.
  • References:
    • PPN naʻa.

2. vi., To moan, groan, wail.

  • Examples:
    • Nā ka ihu, to snore with prolonged sounds.
  • References:
    • PPN ngaa.

3. Plural definite article.

  • Examples:
    • Nā lani, the chiefs.
  • References:
    • Gram. 10.2.
    • PPN nga(a).

4. Demonstrative particle indicating the addressee, sometimes said disrespectfully and translated ‘you’.

  • Examples:
    • Ē nā keiki lapuwale, O you worthless children.
  • References:
    • Cf. kēnā and Gram. 8.3.2.
    • PPN naa.

Nā LepiliTags: grammar onomatopoeia

prep. By, for, belonging to (a-form).

  • Examples:
    • Na wai ʻoe (FS 117)? Who was your parent? (Literally, by who you?)
    • Aloha ʻolua na Ka-wai, greetings to you both from Ka-wai [close of a letter].
    • He puke na Pua, a book for Pua; a book by Pua [ambiguous].
  • References:
    • See no and Gram. 9.11.
    • PCP na(a).

simp. prep. Of; for; belonging to. Placed before nouns or pronouns, it conveys the idea of possession, property or duty. It has the relation to no that a has to o, or ka to ko. Gram. § 69, 1, 2, 3.

art., standing before nouns, represents the plural number; as, ke alii, the chief; na alii, chiefs or the chiefs. Na often answers the double purpose of a plural article (that is, a plural for all the other articles which are singular), and the sign of the plural number of the noun. As an article, it is both definite and indefinite. Gram. § 67; also, § 83. 86 and 87.

A particle somewhat frequent, adding strength to an expression either positive or negative; aole na he wahine e, o ka moopuna na a Waka, she is not certainly any other woman, she is certainly the grandchild of Waka. Laieik. 128.

v. To be quiet; to be pacified, as a child; ua na ke keiki, the child is quiet; to be comforted, as one in affliction. Ier. 31:15.

2. To enjoy respite from pain; a pau kana heluhelu ana, noho iho la ia e na aku i ka mea manao ole.

3. To gasp or half breathe, as a dying person.

4. Hoo. The same; also, in a legal sense, to settle difficulties; to decide between different claimants; as, e hoona kumu kuleana aina, to settle land claims.

adj. Quiet; pacified, as an aggrieved child; calmed; quieted, as one’s passions.

Word directing attention to a particular person or thing, adding strength to an expression either positive or negative: "Aole na he wahine e, o ka moopuna na a Waka," She is not certainly any: other woman, she is certainly the grandchild of Waka. (Laieik. p. 128.)

1. To be quiet; to be pacified, as a child; Ua na ke keiki, the child is quiet; to be comforted, as one in affliction.

2. To enjoy respite from pain; a pau kana heluhelu ana, noho iho la ia e na aku i ka mea manao ole.

3. To labor for breath, as one suffering from asthma.

Of; for; belonging to. Placed before nouns or pronouns, it conveys the idea of possession, property or duty. It has the relation to no that a has to o, or ka to ko.

Standing before nouns, represents the plural number; as, ke alii, the chief; na alii, chiefs or the chiefs. Na often answers the double purpose of a plural article (that is, a plural for all the other articles which are singular), and the sign of the plural number of the noun. As an article, it is both definite and indefinite.

Quiet; pacified, as an aggrieved child; calmed; quieted, as one's passions.

See na-.

his yelp is called nā, and his growl, nunulu.

definite article, plural: of, for, belonging to.

quiet, pacified: to labor for breath, as from asthma.

prep belonging to, of, for; placed before nouns or pronouns gives the idea of possession, property or duty. It has the same relation to no that a has to o, or ka to ko,

placed! before nouns marks the plural number as ke alii the chief, na alii chiefs or the chiefs. It might be called the plural article were it not for the difficulty of determining whether it should be called the definite or indefinite article. It is certainly a sign of the plural, as hale house, na hale houses.

v. to be quiot, to enjoy respite from pain, to be pacified as a child.

adj. quiet, pacified; ua na ke kei-ki, the child is quieted.

v. to case, to fret, to ask for fored as a child,

v. to case, to fret, to ask for food as a child,

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