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inā

Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. interjection Let's go!

  • Examples:
    • Inā kākou, e hana kākou i nā pōhaku ʻula (Kin. 11.3), let's get going and make bricks.

2. conjunction If, would that; unless, whether (with a negative).

  • Examples:
    • Inā ʻaʻole ʻoe e hoʻoikaika, ʻaʻole e holomua, unless you make great efforts, [you] will not progress.
    • Inā ʻoe e hele, e hele nō au me ʻoe, if you go, I'll go with you.
    • Inā ʻoe e hana, ā e hana ʻole, whether you work or not.
    • Inā nō au i make nou! Would that I had died in your stead! Inā e like au me nā malama mamua (Ioba 29.2), Oh, that I were as in months past.
  • References:
    • Gram. 11.1.

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ʻina

Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. n., Small sea urchin (wana), as Echinometra spp.

2. n., Kind of stone, used to make octopus, sinkers.

3. Contraction of ʻia ana in the idiom e aha ʻia ana? What is being done?

  • References:

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ina

Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. vi., To pry, as with a lever.

2. vt., To vary or modulate the tone of voice; to sound, as from a distance.

  • References:
    • And.

3. interjection, In! (Cry of children in a marble game when the marble is “in” a hole.)

  • Source:
    • English

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/ I-NA / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

1. v., To judge; to set in order; to settle a difficulty.

2. To pry up; to raise by means of a lever.

3. To sound, as from a distance; e ina mai ka leo o mea e hea mai.

4. To modulate or ease off, as the syllables at the end of a mele line; ina leo; hooina leo, same.

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ina

/ I-NA / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

Used in an imperative inviting sense, come on; go to; let us do (something); mostly in the plural; ina kakou, &c. Kin. 11:4; also 37:20. Adverbially, be quick; used in exhortation, to make speed; ina hoi. Luk. 20:14. Come on, let us do this or that; ina no, though; albeit. Ezek. 2:6.

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ina

/ I-NA / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

s., A species of sea egg; poke ina; he ia poepoe kalakala.

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ina

/ I-NA / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

adv., With no, for indeed.

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ina

/ I-NA / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

conj., If; it implies condition, and is usually followed by a corresponding ina, answering to then, in the last member of the sentence;. as, ina i makemake mai oe ia mea, ina ua kii mai oe, if you had desired that thing, then (if) you would have come for it.

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ina

/ I-NA / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

interj., O that. Iob. 29:2. I wish that. Neh. 22:29. Would to God. Puk.l6:3. Ina no wau i make nou, O that I had died for thee. 2 Sam. 18:33. Ina aole makou e hiki mai, O that we had not come. Laieik. 67.

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ina

/ ĭ-nā' / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

adv., In truth; in fact; indeed.

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ina

/ ĭ-nā' / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. To go; to do (something): used imperatively. Ina kakou; let us go.

2. v., To make speed; to be quick: used in exhortation: Ina hoi: let us be quick.

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ina

/ ĭ'-nă / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. v., To raise by means of a lever; to pry up.

2. v., To vary in utterance for the sake of the expression; to modulate: E ina ka leo; modulate the voice.

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ina

/ ī-nā' / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

n., The presence of a person, place or thing.

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ina

/ ĭ'-nă / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

n., A sea egg; a seaurchin.

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ina

/ ĭ-nā' / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

interj., An exclamation expressive of a wish. o that! Would that! Ina no au i make nou! o that I had died for thee!

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ina

/ ĭ-nā' / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

conj., Provided or on condition that; if.

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ina

/ ĭ-nā' / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

At this place; right here. It is always followed by the verbal directive iho: Ina iho ke ala; here is the way.

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ina’

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

if, provided that.

‘ina

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

sea-urchin..

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