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kiʻekiʻe

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

nvs., Height, tallness, Highness; high, tall, lofty, exalted, majestic, superior, prominent; altitude.

  • Examples:
    • In 1845 the legislature conferred the title Mea Kiʻekiʻe upon the premier, probably best translated His Excellency.
    • Ka Mea Kiʻekiʻe, Kamāliʻi wahine Luisa, Her Highness, Princess Louise.
    • Kiʻekiʻe Kaʻū, kua makani, he umauma i pā ʻia e ke A ʻe Loa (old chant of Kaʻū chiefs), majestic Kaʻū, wind [blown] back, breast blown upon by the Aʻe Loa tradewind breeze.
    • Kona kiʻekiʻe, his rank.
  • Related:
    • Kiʻekiʻe loa, maximum, highest, supreme.
    • hoʻokiʻekiʻe Caus/sim.; To elevate, promote, lift up; proud, lording it over others, overbearing, disrespectful or disobedient to seniors, vain; promotion, elevation, conceit.
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kiʻekiʻe

Haw to Eng, Māmaka Kaiao,

ʻaʻano, Height. Abbreviated as kiʻe.

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KI-E-KI-E

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

v. See KIE. To be lofty; to be high.

2. To be lifted up; to be raised high, as a material object.

3. To be high, as the mind; to be proud; to be self-exalted; to think one's self above or better than others.

4. Hoo. To be exalted; to be lifted up, as with pride. Nah. 16:3.

5. To exalt one's self; to think much of one's self.

6. To raise one to a higher station. Eset. 3:1.

7. To promote; to signalize one's self.

8. To raise or lift up the voice in a cry.

KI-E-KI-E

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

s. A height; a high place; ke kiekie, the high one, i.e., God; ua like kekiekie me ka loa, the height is like the length.

KI-E-KI-E

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

adj. High; lofty; exalted; separated; holy.

Kiekie (kī'-ĕ-kī'-e), adj.

/ kī'-ĕ-kī'-e / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

High; lofty; exalted; separated; holy.

Kiekie (kī'-ĕ-kī'-e), n.

/ kī'-ĕ-kī'-e / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

A height; a high place: ke kiekie, the high one, that is, God; ua like ke kiekie me ka loa. the height is like the length.

Kiekie (kī'-ē-kī'-e), v.

/ kī'-ē-kī'-e / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

(Syn: Kie.)

1. To be lofty; to be high, as a mountain.

2. To be lifted up; to be raised high, as a material object.

3. To be proud; to be self-exalted; to think one's self above or better than others.

Kiʻekiʻe

Wahi ｜ Location, Place Names of Hawaiʻi (1974),

Land division and ranch headquarters, Niʻihau. Lit., lofty.

Kiʻekiʻe

Wahi ｜ Location, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

Beach, southwest coast, Niʻihau. Calcareous sand beach approximately 1.25 miles long between Paliuli and Halawela. A cluster of small rock islands lies off the south end of the beach, the largest of which is Kūakamoku. Kiʻekiʻe is also the name of the Niʻihau Ranch headquarters, which is on a rise inland of the beach. Literally, lofty.

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ki‘eki‘e

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

high, exalted, steep, holy.

kiʻekiʻe

Haw to Eng, Land Terms (1995),

Highness; supreme.

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