Hawaiian Vocab
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- Aue no ka ho'i e!
- Oh no! Ho man!
- hina
- to fall from a standing position
- palahuli
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to fall over while walking
to take a flop - palaha
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to fall flat
(on your face) - inoa kapakapa
- nick name
- ho'opane'e
-
to put off
to delay
to postpone - ho'oholo
- to decide
- ho'okae
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to descriminate
to treat with contempt - 'olelo ho'okae
- to talk contemptuously
- 'olelo 'ino
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to talk nastily
to swear - Kaua'i Pi
- stingy Kaua'i
- Maui po'o hakahaka
- empty headed Maui
- Hilo palu la'i
- la'i lickers of Hawaii
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Kona 'eka'eka
He 'eka ka makani o Kona -
dirty kona
The dirty winds of Kona - O'ahu maka 'ewa'ewa
- O'ahu people who see things wrong
- ku'eku'e wawae
- heel
- ia wa no
-
at that moment
on the spot - hoka
- to lose out
- kipeku/kipaku
- to kick out
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kuhihewa
ho'ohewahewa -
to misjudge
to get it wrong - naunau
- to chew
- he'e kaula'i
- dried squid
- 'ohi
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to pick
to gather - 'ohi'ohi
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to pick out something amoung many things
to gather many things - 'awa'awa
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to be sour
to be salty - 'awa'awa pa'akai
- to be salty
- kapi/kopi
- to sprinkle
- nana oe la
- you'll see
- mu'emu'e
- to be bitter
- hu'ihu'i
- to be cold
- noi
- to ask
- nonoi
- to ask repeatedly
- niele
- ninau
- ninau
- niele
- hana kuli
- to make noise
- kulikuli oe
- you are making noise
- He ku no kela i ka mea ma'amau
- it is consistant with the norm
- mana'o 'ia
- it is thought that...
- 'A'ole hana pela/me kela
- no make la dat
- ho'i
- to go home
- Ua like pu ka'u 'olelo i kekahi papa a'u
- i said the same thing to my other class
- kekahi ka'a o'u
- my other car
- 'aha inu
-
to get together to drink
party - pa'ina
- party with food
- mahele hana
-
role/part to do
task
errand - He akua no?
- Is there a god
- puni
- round
- puni mua
- first round
- puni 'elua
- second round
- iho
- to go down
- iho wawae
- to go down by foot
- lokomaika'i
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to be generous
gracious
kind - 'olu'olu
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to be nice
kind - 'u'uku
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yo be small
tiny - hehe'e
- to be runny
- howai
- to be watery
- pu'upu'u
- to be lumpy
- hakuhaku
- to be lumpy like poi
- lima 'awa'awa
- sour hand
- kahi i ke pola
- to scrape the bowl