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Kā.ʻelo

Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

n.

1. Name of a wet month. Cf. ʻelo, saturated. ʻO Kā.ʻelo ka malama, kāpule ke kōlea (saying) Kāʻelo is the month, the plovers are fat.

2. Name of a star, possibly Betelgeuse.

kaʻelo

Haw to Eng, Māmaka Kaiao,

kikino, Ciguatera, i.e. poisoning caused by eating fish with accumulated toxic substance in its flesh.

  • Source:
    • Tahitian: taʻero.
  • Examples:
    • ʻO ke kaʻelo, he ʻano maʻi ia i hiki ke loaʻa ma ka ʻai ʻana i kekahi iʻa i loaʻa i kēia ʻano maʻi. Ciguatera is a kind of sickness one can get by eating fish contaminated with this kind of sickness.

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KA-E-LO

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

s. The name of that month of the year nearly corresponding with our January.

Kaelo (kā-ē'-lo), n.

/ kā-ē'-lo / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

[Ka, belonging to, and elo, wet.] The name of one of the months in the ancient Hawaiian calendar, varying in different localities. David Malo says Kaelo was equivalent to January.

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