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ʻaui

Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. vi. To turn aside, digress, deviate, pass by, decline, bend down. Cf. auinalā. Nā ʻaui ʻana, variations, deviations. hō.ʻaui Caus/sim. Ke hōʻaui maila ka lā, the sun is beginning to descend to the west.

2. nvi. To swell and roll, as the sea; to pitch; billow, roller. ʻAui ʻale, large swell, billow.

3. nvi. Declension, case; to name declensions or conjugations (term devised by Andrews based on Latin declinare, to turn aside); never used extensively and not entered in Hitchcock's 1887 English-Hawaiian Dictionary. hō.ʻaui To conjugate, decline. Ka hōʻaui ʻana, declension, conjugation.

4. nvi. A hula step: the dancer turns to the side and points out one foot once or several times, drawing the foot well back between each pointing; at the same time the body is tipped, with a lowered hand pointing to the outpointing toes, and the other hand raised in the opposite direction; to dance thus. Cf. ue.

auī

Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

interjection, Ouch!

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AU-I

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

v. To decline, as the sun in the afternoon. 1 Nal. 18:29.

2. To be turned aside in a course; a i ka moana, auiia ka waa e ka ale, when on the ocean, the canoe was turned aside by a wave.

3. To vary from a direct line; to turn aside, as the head; ua aui ae nei ka la; ua aui ae nei ka ia.

4. To swell, as the sea, in great rollers.

5. To pass by a certain time.

6. To shun a blow by inclining the head.

7. To roll up roughly, as high waves of the sea; ke aui mai la ka nalu; aui mai la ka ale o ke kai. Conj. 9. Au-i-au-i, to roll up, as the sea, &c.

AU-I

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

s. A wave of the sea; a billow. Isa. 48:18. He aui no ka nalu.

2. The name for case in grammar. Gram. § 99.

Aui (ā'ŭ-ĭ), n.

Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. A wave; a billow; a roller.

2. A case in grammar.

Aui (ă'u-ĭ), v.

Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. To bend down; to decline.

2. To deviate or turn from a given position or direction; to slope; to incline.

3. To become gradually impaired; to draw to an end; to decay: Ua aui ka mana, power has decayed.

4. To inflect or give in order the various case-forms of a noun, a pronoun, or adjective.

5. To pass by; to terminate; to elapse.

6. To swell; to rise; to roll up.

7. To roll or rock from side to side; to rise and fall alternately at the bow and stern; to pitch. Auwi is a corrupt form of this verb.

ʻaui

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Hula step where the dancer turns to the side and points out one foot once or several times, drawing the foot well back between each pointing. See ue.

ʻaui

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

To shun a blow by inclining the head.

ʻaui

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

To swell, as the sea in great rollers; to pitch.

‘aui

Haw to Eng, Judd/Pukui/Stokes (1943),

case in grammar: to decline, pass by.

ʻaui

Haw to Eng, Land Terms (1995),

To decline; descend; to turn aside, deviate, digress, pass by.

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