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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hawaiian | Kolo | To creep, crawl; to move along, as a gentle breeze or shower; to walk bent over as in respect to a chief or an indication of humility |
| Hawaiian | Kolo/kolo | Any creeping vine |
| Hawaiian | Kaa | To fish with a pole |
| Hawaiian | Kaa/kaa | To fish, as for uhu (parrot fish) with a square net, or ulua with hook and line but no pole; net or nets dropped in a semicircle, as for mullets or 'oo'io. |
| Hawaiian | Mea ʔai | Food, refreshment, groceries |
| Hawaiian | Aa | And |
| Hawaiian | Aa | Until, to, as far as, to the point of |
| Hawaiian | Kaukahi | Standing alone, solitary, by oneself, lone...canoe with a single outrigger float |
| Hawaiian | (ʔOolepe) kupe | A bivalve |
| Hawaiian | ʔAuamo | Pole or stick used for carrying burdens across the shoulders |
| Hawaiian | Lau ʔawa | Kava leaf; first two or three taro leaves, as offered with kava leaves with prayers for a good food supply |
| Hawaiian | Hoʔolau | To make numerous; to assemble, as of numerous persons or animals; numerous |
| Hawaiian | Kuʔu | Type of net let down from a canoe; gill net; to set or lower a net or catch in a net |
| Hawaiian | Kuʔu | Release |
| Hawaiian | Wini | Sharp, as a point; impudent, nervy |
| Hawaiian | Wae | U-shaped canoe spreader |
| Hawaiian | Kaawai | Last liquor run off in distillation...; extremely weak and watery liquor |
| Hawaiian | Lolo | Fish sp. Short for hinaalea 'akilolo, Yellow-tail Coris (Coris gaimard) |
| Hawaiian | Niu | Spinning, whirling, dizzy |
| Hawaiian | ʔOo/niu | Spinning top; to spin a top... |
| Hawaiian | Poo | Formerly the period of 24 hours beginning with nightfall |
| Hawaiian | Poo | The realm of the gods; pertaining to or of the gods, chaos, or hell |
| Hawaiian | Lile | Bright, shiny, dazzling, sparkling |
| Hawaiian | Kau/kolu | Triple, trinity, group of three |
| Hawaiian | Haka | To place wood in a ground oven; to lay an oven fire |
| Hawaiian | Huʔi | Ache, pain; aching |
| Hawaiian | Ka/ka | To rinse, clean |
| Hawaiian | Aia | There, there it is, there are |
| Hawaiian | Hoʔolua | To do twice, repeat, do over and over; to bake twice, as food in the oven |
| Hawaiian | Hoo/ʔupu/ʔupu | To recall to someone else, remind; to terrify someone by repeating an unpleasant impending event, especially that one is to be the victim of sorcery; to harp on impending doom |
| Hawaiian | Oho | Hair of the head; leaves of plants; fronds of ferns; to leaf out, sprout |
| Hawaiian | Hoʔopili | To bring together, stick; to attach oneself to a person; united, as friends;...to put together, as parts of a puzzle |
| Hawaiian | Kahu | One who tends and oven, a cook |
| Hawaiian | Kaauna | Four (formerly tubers were counted by fours) |
| Hawaiian | ʔUpena kolo | Immense bag net said to be from sixteen to twenty-four fathoms deep |
| Hawaiian | Kuupele | Dub out, as a canoe hull; scoop out, as trench; dig and plow, as taro patch; to knead, as bread dough or very hard fresh poi |
| Hawaiian | Hoʔo/heʔe | To put to flight, rout |
| Hawaiian | Leʔa | Clearly, perfectly, thoroughly, successfully |
| Hawaiian | Alanui | Street, road, highway |
| Hawaiian | ʔEe- | Prefix to numerals, inanimate |
| Hawaiian | Makena | Mourning, lamentation; to wail, lament |
| Hawaiian | ʔIha/ʔiha | Feeling of needing to relieve oneself, tight, tense |
| Hawaiian | Keʔa | Cross, any crossed piece; main house purlin; sticks connecting canoes of a double canoe |
| Hawaiian | Peʔapeʔa | Entangled (fig.), perplexity |
| Hawaiian | Mai | Preverbal particle of negative command: don't |
| Hawaiian | Koo | To drag, push, tow... |
| Hawaiian | Ipu | Bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria); general name for vessel or container |
| Hawaiian | Lama/lama | To go torch-fishing |
| Hawaiian | Mua | Leader, senior partner, senior |
| Hawaiian | Peenaa | Like that; to do or say like that (Rare). |
