A running list of words you may not know…
alakaʻi: nvt. To lead, guide, direct; leader, guide, conductor, head, director.
e komo mai: welcome
halau: 1. n. Long house, as for canoes or hula instruction; meeting house. 2. vs. Large, numerous; much.
haumana: n. Student, pupil, apprentice, recruit, disciple.
hula: 1. nvt. The hula, a hula dancer; to dance the hula. 2. nvt. Song or chant used for the hula; to sing or chant for a hula. 3. vi. To twitch, as a muscle or eyelid; to palpitate, throb.
imua: 1. loc. n. Before, ahead, forward, in advance, future, front, first, former, foremost, primary, principal; previously, beforehand; oldest, older brother or sister; senior branch of a family; leader, senior partner, senior; more than.
keiki: 1. nvi. Child, offspring, descendant, progeny, boy, youngster, son, lad, nephew, song of a dear friend; calf, colt, kid, cub; worker; shoot or sucker, as of taro; to have or obtain a child; to be or become a child. 2. n. Gauge, as on a sewing machine.
kumu: 1. Bottom, base, foundation, basis, title (as to land), main stalk of a tree, trunk, handle, root (in arithmetic); basic; heriditary, fundamental. 2. Teacher, tutor, manual, primer, model, pattern. 3. Beginning, source, origin; starting point of plaiting. 4. Reason, cause, goal, justification, motive, grounds, purpose, object, why. 5. An article bought, sold, or exchanged; price. 6. Herd, flock.
makalapua: Handsome, beautiful; to blossom forth.
ʻolelo: nvt. Language, speech, word, quotation, statement, utterance, term, tidings; to speak, say, state, talk, mention, quote, converse, tell; oral, verbatim, verbal, motion.
ʻonipaʻa: steadfast
pa’u: 1. nvt. Woman’s skirt, sarong; skirt worn by women horseback riders; to wear a pa’u. 2. n. Mat covering for a canoe, sometimes crew sticking their heads out through holes in the mat. 3. n. Red feathers bound to base of yellow feathers in an ‘uo bunch.
pelekikena: President; presidential
source: Pukui, Mary Kawena and Samuel H. Elbert. 1986. Hawaiian Dictionary: Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
