Hawaiian Word of the Day
i’e kuku: Tapa beater. i’e kuku ho’oki: Tapa beater, as used to finish the tapa. Lit. finishing-beating mallet.
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Archive for the month “February, 2013”
Hawaiian Word of the Day
aloha: this is translated as love, affection, compassion, mercy, sympathy, pity, kindness, sentiment, grace, charity; greeting, salutation, regards; sweetheart, lover, loved one; beloved, loving, kind, compassionate, charitable, lovable; to love, be fond of; to show kindness, mercy, pity, charity, affection; to venerate; to remember with affection; to greet, hail. Greetings! Hello! Good-bye! Farewell!
aloha is a spiritual concept. We can understand the word aloha by the two root words, alo and ha. alo means: front, face, presence. ha means: to breathe, exhale; to breathe upon; breath, life.
Hawaiian Word of the Day
mole: 1. Tap root, main root; bottom, as of a pit or of a glass; ancestral root; foundation, source, cause. 2. Smooth, round, bald. ho’o.mole. To smooth. 3. Name of the smooth, uncarved side of a tapa beater, as used at the end of the beating to smooth out the cloth. 4. To linger, loiter, lag; backward.
Hawaiian Word of the Day
i’a. 1. Fish, or any marine animal, as eel, oyster, crab, whale. 2. Meat or any flesh food. 3. Any food eaten as a relish, with the staple. 4. Milky Way (capitalized I’a).
Ka Pi’apa: letters and pronounciation
In ‘Olelo Hawai’i, there are 12 letters plus the ‘okina (‘) and the kahako (-). The ‘okina looks like an apostrophe and is pronounced as a glottal stop. The kahako is a macron that goes over the vowel in certain words to elongate the sound of the vowel…The macron is not always shown….The 12 letters are: a,e,i,o,u,h,k,l,m,n,p,w. These are pronounced: a= ah, e=eh, i=ee, o=oh, u=ue (long u sound), h=he, k=ke, l=la, m=mu, n=nu, p=pi, w=ve, okina=’
Ka Pi’apa Hawai’i: the Hawaiian Alphabet
The Hawaiian alphabet, ka pīʻāpā Hawaiʻi, is an alphabet used to write Hawaiian. It was adapted from the English alphabet in the early 19th century by American missionaries to print a bible in the Hawaiian language.
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