Monthly Archives: August 2015

1. nvt. Wrapping, wrapped package; packages of ti leaves or banana leaves containing pork, beef, salted fish, or taro tops, baked in the ground oven, steamed or broiled; any cloth, net, or leaves used as a wrapper or carrier; to … Continue reading →

4. num. To be much, many; very many, numerous; four hundred. Cf. kini, mano.  hoʻo.lau To make numerous; to assemble, as of numerous persons or animals; numerous. (PPN rau.) Yesterday we learned about lau, as in leaf. Today, lau refers to a number. … Continue reading →

1. nvi. Leaf, frond, leaflet, greens; to leaf out. Lau is sometimes contracted to lā-, as lāʻī, lāʻie, lāʻō. hoʻo.lau To grow leaves; to leaf out. (PPN lau.) I so enjoyed last week’s focus on ulu/ʻulu, I thought I would give a … Continue reading →

1.  Dark, or dense as growth.  2.  Sudden sickness or stroke, the sign of which is a rooster crowing at untimely hours; such crowing was also believed to indicate the arrival of visitors or a ship.  3.  A fish said … Continue reading →

1. nvi. To grow, increase, spread; growth; increase or rising of the wind; to protect (PH 116, For. 6:474). Also unu. Cf. mea ulu. Ka ulu o ka lā, the rising of the sun. Kai ulu, sea at full tide. Ulu ehuehu, to grow fast, as a … Continue reading →

1.  The breadfruit. 2.  Round, smooth stone as used in ʻulu maika game; bowling ball; bell clapper; dice. 3. Muscles in calf of leg. 4. Name for kōnane stone. This week we are going to spend some time with different … Continue reading →

2. vi. Possessed by a god; inspired by a spirit, god, ideal, person, as for artistic creation; stirred, excited; to enter in and inspire. Also unu. Manaʻo ulu wale, a thought entered of its own accord, hence fancy, impulse, imagination. … Continue reading →

vi. Depression, gutter, ravine; lines of the hand, loose skin over the eyeball; tuck in a garment, shirring, ruffling; descent, as of trail or road; of low rank (Kep. 125); to bend, duck, hang, sag, slacken, stoop; to relax; to … Continue reading →

Combined, acting together; to cooperate, act together.  It gives me great insight into the Hawaiian language when I look at the number of words that express the concept of cooperation.  We commonly hear the value of laulima, literally, many hands.  … Continue reading →

1.  nvs.  Swollen, distended; swelling; to swell; dropsy, edema.  2. n. A variety of sweet potato.  3. n. A kind of seaweed I remember whenever I was hāpai, unfailingly, my body, in one way or another, and sometimes from head … Continue reading →