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ʻauana

/ ʻau.ana / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

vi., To wander, drift, ramble, go from place to place; to stray morally or mentally.

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v., Also written auwana. Au, to swim, and ana, the participial termination ing. A swimming off. The word has its origin in the overturning of a canoe, when men and all the cargo of the canoe float off in different directions.

1. To be scattered; dispersed, as things disperse in the upsetting of a canoe.

2. To go astray, as the mind; auwana hewa ka naau; to be wandering, as the thoughts.

3. To scatter from each other, as people.

4. To go here and there in search of something. Puk. 5:12.

5. Hooauana. To scatter; disperse abroad; to cause to wander; to go from place to place. Kin. 20:13. Ua hooauwanaia ka poe hewa i ka make, the wicked are scattered in death. See auwana.

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adj., Scattered; wandering; dispersed.

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auana

/ ău-ă'-nă / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

adj., Scattering, wandering, dispersed.

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auana

/ ău-ă'-nă / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

v., See auwana.

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To float, wander away. This word has its origin in the overturning of a canoe, when men and cargo float off in scattered directions.

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