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 | Keenaa | Demonstrative: That (near the person addressed) |
Hawaiian | Miki | Undertow |
Hawaiian | Peelaa | In that way, like that, thus, so, that way |
Hawaiian | Pihi | Button, badge; to button |
Hawaiian | Pu/pupu | Numerous, crowded, thick, teeming, congested |
Hawaiian | Haanau | Offspring, child |
Hawaiian | ʔAulama | To light with a torch Problematic |
Hawaiian | Hoʔohoa | To make friends |
Hawaiian | Ka/kaka | Bow; bent, as a bow; to shoot, as a bow; deep-sea fishing with weighted line Problematic |
Hawaiian | Koli | To whittle, pare, sharpen, peel, trim, shave |
Hawaiian | Koʔo | Prop |
Hawaiian | Hoʔa/alahia | To awaken; wakefulness, insomnia |
Hawaiian | Haaiki | Narrow, pinched; limitation, restriction |
Hawaiian | Hoʔoaka | Reflection, image, likeness |
Hawaiian | Hoʔoaka | To cast a shadow |
Hawaiian | Heʔe | To melt, flow, drip |
Hawaiian | Heʔe | Flee |
Hawaiian | Wiliwili | Tree sp. (Erythrina sandwicensis) Uncertain Semantic Connection |
Hawaiian | Noni | Troubled, agitated, perplexed, confused; to mix |
Hawaiian | Mikiʔao | Claw, nail, as of finger or toe Phonologically Irregular |
Hawaiian | Paʔia | Temporarily deaf, as from ascending to a high altitude |
Hawaiian | Paa-ʔia | Touch, get, contact, reach, gan control of, hit, experience... |
Hawaiian | Paʔi/paʔi | Trim, prune, cut, clip, as a plant or the hair; strip off, as leaves |
Hawaiian | Ea(ea) | To smell (vi) Phonologically Irregular |
Hawaiian | Kula | Plain, field, open country; basket-like fish trap |
Hawaiian | Kuulou, kuunou | To bow the head, bend |
Hawaiian | Hooʔaa | To set on fire, burn, ignite, etc. |
Hawaiian | Maea | Stinking, as of unwashed bodies; malodorous, as a swamp; offensive-smelling, as vomit Uncertain Semantic Connection |
Hawaiian | Puu heʔe | Octopus head; figurative term for small fontanel |
Hawaiian | Puu | Head of squid or octopus |
Hawaiian | ʔOni | To move, fidget, wriggle |
Hawaiian | ʔOli | Joy, happiness, pleasure; happy, joyful, gay |
Hawaiian | Leu | Loins (rare, in chant) |
Hawaiian | Hoʔokuu | To set up, make stand, establish, asa society; to brace a canoe with a paddle...; to carry on, as a family name |
Hawaiian | Api | To gather together, as people or things (And.) |
Hawaiian | ʔAuhaka | Spindle-legged; spindleshanks; an animal with slender legs Uncertain Semantic Connection |
Hawaiian | ʔAukaa | Wood woven through sticks in 'ie kala fish trap; long stems, as of some species of mangoes; bar, as of soap or gold; ridge or strip between the flutes of a column; facet, fillet, capstain bar, bar across a roadway; stump |
Hawaiian | Noo | Seepage; to leak, ooze, seep, sink |
Hawaiian | Nonoo | To snore, gurgle Phonologically Irregular |
Hawaiian | ʔAʔano | Overbearing, arrogant, bully Uncertain Semantic Connection |
Hawaiian | Koena | Remainder, residue, remnant, surplus, scraps, leftovers, balance (in accounts), remains, ruins |
Hawaiian | Honua | Land n. Phonologically Irregular |
Hawaiian | Kapa | Labia |
Hawaiian | Alu | To co-operate, act together |
Hawaiian | Ono | Six; sixth |
Hawaiian | Luʔu/kia | Coconut fiber lashing; to lash thus |
Hawaiian | ʔIke-a | See, know, feel... |
Hawaiian | E | Vocative particle; a second ee often follows the head word for emphasis |
Hawaiian | Pe/pehi | To beat, strike, pound, kill |
Hawaiian | Iho | To go down, descend; to subside; go south or before the wind |