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n., Masthead.

• Source:
  • English.

1. nvs. To die, perish; defeated, beaten, dead, killed, unfortunate; to faint (cf. make loa, definitely “to die”); death, fainting, danger of death, peril, destruction, misfortune; to kill, beat, execute; deathly, deadly, faint, deceased, extinct, late, obsolete, poisonous, venomous. (Gram. 4.5.) A pre-Christian concept was that make signified entry into the spirit world, and that make loa was the utter annihilation of the spirit, a kind of second death (cf. For. 5:581).

• Examples:
  • Make anu, to die from the cold, freeze.
  • Make ʻole, deathless, immortal.
  • Kona make, his [own] death.
  • Kāna make, his murder [of someone else].
  • ʻAʻole kona he make maoli, he make na waho, his was not a natural death, [but] a death by outsiders [sorcery].
  • Nā-ʻehu i make aku nei, the late Nā-ʻehu.
  • Makamaka make, unresponsive friend.
  • Lawe i ka wā make, taking at the time of death [a deceased might by his death remove taboos, curses, and sources of family discord: Na_na_ 137–8].
  • Hele i ka make, to pass away in death [common statement in wills].
  • Emi maila ʻo Ka-malama, ā ʻaneʻane nō e make i nā wahi koa (FS 85), Ka-malama fell behind and was almost killed by the warriors.
• Related:
  • hoʻomake Caus/sim.; To kill deliberately, execute; to pretend to be dead; to let die; to let diminish, grow faint.
    • Mai hoʻopae ʻoe, e hoʻomake ʻoe i kou nalu, don't catch [the wave], let your wave get smaller.
• References:
  • PPN mate .

2. nvs. Desire, want; to want.

• After ʻaʻole, make expresses a weak command, as “you better not.”
  • ʻI mai nei ke aliʻi, ʻaʻole make kaha ka ʻōpū o ka puaʻa (FS 205), the chief said, better not cut open the pig's stomach.
  • ʻAʻole make hana, better not do it.
• Examples:
  • Mai make hele ʻoe! Don't get the notion of going.
• References:
  • Cf. make ʻai, -mākeʻaka, make wai.
  • PCP mate .

3. n. Price, barter, exchange.

• Examples:
  • ʻEhia hua moa make ka hapalua, how many eggs for fifty cents?
  • Ā make na ʻIwa, na ke keiki ʻaihue a Kukui, ʻo ka waiwai o kuʻu waʻa (FS 21), the reward for ʻIwa, Kukui's thieving son, is the value of my canoe.
• References:
  • Cf. makehewa, makepono.