Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. n.v., Small pool for stocking fish spawn, as mullet, milk fish, tenpounder, usually attached to longer ponds; puddle, cistern, water sluice, dregs; to settle, as dregs; to deposit, especially of any element beginning with kūkae, as kūkaehao, kūkaelā.

• Examples:
  • Kai kiʻo, sea water remaining in rock hollows after the tide goes down.
  • Nā kiʻo wai o Kūlanihākoʻi, pools of Kūlanihākoʻi [mythical spring in the sky; its overflow came to earth as rain].
• Related:
  • hoʻokiʻo Caus/sim.; To gather or settle, as water in a lake or pond; to cease flowing, of menstruation.
    • Lua hoʻokiʻo wai, cistern.
    • Luawai hoʻokiʻo, reservoir.
• References:
  • Cf. kiʻo lepo, kiʻo wai.

2. vi., To excrete, evacuate, give birth to a child (often sarcastic).

• References:
  • Cf. kikiʻo, kiʻokiʻo, pākiʻokiʻo.
  • PPN tiko.

3. n., Rootlet of sweet potato.

1. vi., To cheep, chirp.

• Related:
  • hoʻokio Same as hōkio, a whistle.
• References:
  • PCP tio.

2. nvi., Projection, protuberance, bubo; to protrude.

• Examples:
  • ʻAʻohe kio pōhaku nalo i ke alo pali, on the face of a cliff, not one jutting rock is hidden from sight [no use being secretive].
• Related:
  • hoʻokio Caus/sim.; To spread out, project.

3. Same as kaunaʻoa #2, a mollusk.

• References:
  • PPN tio.

4. interjection, Word used in reply to a question one does not care to answer, somewhat like rude English “What's it to you?”

• Examples:
  • E hele ana ʻolua i hea? Kio. Where are you two going? Kio.

5. n., Cords made of hibiscus bark used as drawstrings of a large net.

6. n., Mock warfare, training in warfare by combat (And.); according to Malo 66 kaua kio is mock warfare with blunted spears. (Kawelo's warriors greet him as he returns from fishing by hurling spears at him for him to dodge or parry: FS 52.)

7. n., Mussels.

• References:
  • See kio nahawele.
  • PPN kio.