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kākākau

/ kā.kā.kau / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. Reduplication of kākau; to reprint, to rewrite.

  • Examples:
    • E kākākau ana kamaliʻi i ke kumu, the children are writing to the teacher. Kākākau ka ʻāina i ka pali, the scars are engraved on the cliff.

2. n., A cuplike dish, usually of stone, used to hold tapa-printing or tattooing dye.

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kaka.kau

Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

Redup. of kakau, to place.

KA-KA-KAU

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

v. To write, as a law. 2 Oihl. 31:3.

Kakakau (kā'-kă-ka'u), n.

/ kā'-kă-ka'u / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

[Ka, a cup, and kakau, to print.] A cuplike dish, usually of stone, used to hold the ink or dye with which the natives marked tapa or tattooed the skin.

Kakakau (kā'-kă-ka'u), v.

/ kā'-kă-ka'u / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

To reprint; to renew the characters of.

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