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kauwahi

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

paucal article and n., Some, a little, a few; something; some place.

  • Examples:
    • (Gram. 10.1.) Naʻu hoʻi kauwahi iʻa, let me have a little fish.
    • Naʻu hoʻi kauwahi o ka iʻa, let me have a part of the fish.
    • Hiki akula au ma ke kauwahi, a moe ihola i loko o kekahi ana, I went to a certain place and slept inside a cave.
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KAU-WA-HI

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

art. Some; something; some place; any one place or thing. See KAU, place.

KAU-WA-HI

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

s. Some; some part; a part of a thing. Isa. 44:16. A parcel indefinitely large. Kin. 33:19. Kauwahi o ke koko, some of the blood. NOTE.—Kauwahi as a substantive rarely takes the article, expect when it refers to place. Mat. 25:8. It was always the idea of a partitive.

Kauwahi (kău'-wă'-hi), adj.

/ kău'-wă'-hi / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

Some; something; some place; any one place or thing. (It also has a pronominal force.) See kau, place.

Kauwahi (kău'-wā'-hi), n.

/ kău'-wā'-hi / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

Some; some part; a part of a thing. A parcel indefinitely large; kauwahi o ke koko, some of the blood. (Kauwahi as a substantive rarely takes the article, except when it refers to place. It has always the idea of a partitive.)

kauwahi

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

something, some place, some part.

kauwahi

Haw to Eng, Land Terms (1995),

Places; sites. Also, kauhale.

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