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 | Mamua | Before; better |
| Hawaiian | Ma/lalo | Below, underneath |
| Hawaiian | Maluna | Above |
| Hawaiian | No ka mea | Because, whereas... |
| Hawaiian | Oe | Prolonged sound or thing; sound of chanting, vibration; whistle of a train; whistle of a bull-roarer; drawn-out wail of an infant... |
| Hawaiian | Lauoho | Hair of the head |
| Hawaiian | Oho | Hair of the head; leaves of plants; fronds of ferns; to leaf out, sprout |
| Hawaiian | Oho | To call out, cry, yell...to leap up, as startled birds. |
| Hawaiian | Lole(lole) | To handle, turn over with the hands |
| Hawaiian | Puukuʔi | To collect, assemble (vi) |
| Hawaiian | Lani | Very high chief, majesty...royal, exalted, high-born, noble, aristocratic (most common in personal names) |
| Hawaiian | Hoʔo/lani | To treat as a chief; render homage to a chief; act as chief... |
| Hawaiian | Lima kuhi, manamana kuhi | Index finger |
| Hawaiian | Loma | Lazy, indolent, slow, idle Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Hawaiian | Lo/lolo | Tasty, rich, fat (as marrow) |
| Hawaiian | Kuu/pou | To go down, walk downhill fast, stagger, to bend far forward, as one reeling drunk |
| Hawaiian | Kaʔele | Empty and hollow, as of a bowl, poi board, drum, canoe hull |
| Hawaiian | Kaa/pae | To set aside, turn aside, deviate from, eliminate, discard... |
| Hawaiian | Kaikama/hine | Girl, daughter, niece, lass |
| Hawaiian | Naa ʔOle | Nights of the moon (7-10, 21-22) considered unlucky for fishing, planting, or beginning any important activity... |
| Hawaiian | Moohalu | Twelfth day of the month... |
| Hawaiian | Mauli | Twenty-ninth of the old month |
| Hawaiian | Wehi | Dark Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Hawaiian | Weʔa/weʔa | To help, abet or tempt, especially in love affairs; accomplice, accessory in crime; one who aids or incites but does not share; procurer, pimp; to procure |
| Hawaiian | ʔEu | Mischievous, naughty, playful, as a child; rogue, rascal, scamp |
| Hawaiian | ʔEwa | Crooked, out of shape, imperfect, ill-fitting; incorrect, unjust Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Hawaiian | ʔIo | To flee |
| Hawaiian | Kipi | Hilo name for mound taro patches Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Hawaiian | Puuʔao | Womb Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Hawaiian | Laaʔau | Wood, timber; stick, pole, rod; splinter; club, blow or stroke of a club; strength, rigidness, hardness, male erection; wooden, woody, stiff as wood; to have formed mature wood (as of a seedling) |
| Hawaiian | Hulumanu | Court favorites of Kamehameha III |
| Hawaiian | ʔIwa/ʔiwa | Maidenhair ferns (Adiantum spp.) |
| Hawaiian | Pili | Grass sp. (Heteropogon contortus)... |
| Hawaiian | ʔAʔa/liʔi | Native hardwood shrubs or trees (Dodonaea spp.)... |
| Hawaiian | Pulu/pulu | Cotton |
| Hawaiian | ʔOhe/ʔohe | Tall native tree sp. (Tetraplasandra spp.); also Reynoldsia [Polyscias] sandwicensis (Ni'ihau) (StJ). |
| Hawaiian | Poohue | General name for the gourd plant |
| 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; to make net meshes |
| 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 |
