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māewa

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

vs., Swaying, swinging, as something with an anchored base, as seaweed, hair, leaves; fluttering; wandering, unstable.

  • Examples:
    • Māewa lani, swinging in the air.
    • I hea ʻoe i hele māewa aku nei? Where did you go wandering?
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vs. Reproachful, scornful, mocking, mimicking in a nasty way, sneering; cruel; scorned, abused, desecrated, tousled. hoʻo.maʻewa To reproach, sneer at, mimic, ridicule, desecrate, jeer, mock, scorn.

v. Ma and ewa, to bend out of shape. To be tremulous; to be unstable, as any substance unfixed.

2. To be led crookedly; e kaiewa.

3. To be blown here and there, as the spray of the surf by the wind; e hoopuehuia e ka wai.

4. To mock; to revile; to treat with scorn; to make ashamed; to reproach one with some base act of which he is not guilty. Hoo. The same.

Maewa (mă'-ē'-wă), v.

/ mă'-ē'-wă / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

[Ma and ewa, to be bent out of shape.]

1. To be tremulous; to be unstable, as any substance unfixed.

2. To be led crookedly; e kaiewa.

3. To be blown here and there, as the spray of the surf by the wind; e hoopuehuia e ka wai.

MAE 393 MAH

swaying.

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