Entries from Pukui & Elbert 1986 in Pollex-Online
Pukui, M. K. and S. H. Elbert (1986). Hawaiian Dictionary. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press.
Language | Item | Description |
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Hawaiian | Nau/nau | A medicinal plant |
Hawaiian | Naupaka | (Scaevola sp.) |
Hawaiian | Nawe | Panting for breath (as after exercise, illness) Uncertain Semantic Connection |
Hawaiian | Nehe | Various plant spp. |
Hawaiian | Nehu | Anchovy (Stolephorus purpureus) |
Hawaiian | Nei | This |
Hawaiian | Neʔe(neʔe) | Edge along |
Hawaiian | Nene | Stir, show animation |
Hawaiian | Newa | Reel, stagger |
Hawaiian | Newenewe | Plump, as pregnant woman |
Hawaiian | Nia | Calm, smooth (of sea); smooth, round, bald, calm |
Hawaiian | Niiao | Edge, as of a canoe; groove; rima, as of a bowl; sharp edge of a knife blade |
Hawaiian | Kama/niha/ | Sullen, cross, hostile |
Hawaiian | Nihi | Edge, brink, rim, border; standing on edge |
Hawaiian | Nihi | Move stealthily |
Hawaiian | Niho | Tooth |
Hawaiian | Nini | Pour, spill |
Hawaiian | Niiʔau | Coconut leaf midrib |
Hawaiian | Nini | Ointment, balm |
Hawaiian | Niki | To pinch |
Hawaiian | Niu | Coconut palm, coconut meat |
Hawaiian | Niuhi | Large, grey man-eating shark |
Hawaiian | Niu-a | Spinning, whirling, dizzy Phonologically Irregular |
Hawaiian | No | Of, for, because of, belonging to, in behalf of, honoring, to, for, from, resulting from, concerning, about |
Hawaiian | Noa | Freed of taboo, released from restrictions, profane; freedom |
Hawaiian | Noho | Sit, dwell |
Hawaiian | Nohu | Fish sp., Scorpion fish |
Hawaiian | Noi | Ask for something, request, solicit, appeal etc. |
Hawaiian | No’u | Short, thickset, plump but not tall Uncertain Semantic Connection |
Hawaiian | None/aa | Distaste for food that one has had too much of; surfeit |
Hawaiian | Noni | (Morinda citrifolia) |
Hawaiian | Nou | To throw |
Hawaiian | Nui | Big |
Hawaiian | Nuʔa | Thick, piled one on top of the other (of mats, ocean swells) |
Hawaiian | Numi | Subside, ebb away |
Hawaiian | Oo | Answer, reply "yes", agree, say, talk |
Hawaiian | Oha | Affection, love, greeting; to greet |
Hawaiian | Ona | Mite. louse |
Hawaiian | Oo | Food provisions for a journey, especially at sea; sea rations |
Hawaiian | Oi | Move, pull away as in anger |
Hawaiian | Oeoe | (Oceanodroma castro) Hawaiian storm petrel |
Hawaiian | Oi/oi | Squirm, leisurely swaying |
Hawaiian | Oʔioʔi/na | Resting place for travelers, such as a shady tree, rock |
Hawaiian | Oʔo | Matured, ripe, as fruit; or mature age, middle-aged, elderly; to mature, ripen or grow old; an adult human, maturity |
Hawaiian | Ola | Life, health |
Hawaiian | Oli(oli) | A chant that was not danced to |
Hawaiian | Olo | Resound, sound long |
Hawaiian | Omo | Suck, gourd |
Hawaiian | One | Sand |
Hawaiian | Ono | Wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri) |