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1. nvi., Sharp report, as crack of a pistol; to crack, snap, crackle, creak (as joints); to make a splashing sound.

  • Examples:
    • ʻUʻina ka puʻu, sound of swallowing.
    • ʻUʻina pōhaku a Kāne, crackling rocks of Kāne [thunder].
    • He ʻuʻina, he nākolo ka wai o Nā-molo-kama (song), the water of Nā-molo-kama makes a splashing and rustling sound.
  • References:

2. n., Glottal stop.

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v. Ui and ana. See UI 4.

1. To crack; to snap, as a whip.

2. To crack, as a rope or string of a lei. Laieik. 145.

3. To break, as a piece of wood. NOTE.—It is the noise made by the breaking, and not the breaking that makes the uina.

s. See UINA, v. A report of a pistol; the noise of a gun; the cracking of the fingers; a guttural break in pronunciation between two vowels.

Uina (u-i'-nă), n.

Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. A sharp, sudden report like the noise of a gun; the cracking of the fingers.

2. A guttural break in pronunciation between two vowels (').

Uina (u-i'-nă), v.

Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

To make a sharp, sudden report, as the crack of a pistol, or a peal of thunder.

Glottal stop. Andrews refers to this as a sound such as the gutteral pronunciation break between two vowels.

the hamzah, ‘, “a gutteral break in pronunciation between two vowels;” sharp report; snap of whip, cracking of fingers.

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