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malu koʻi

Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

n. Services for consecrating (malu) adzes to be used for cutting ʻōhiʻa logs for images or canoes (also malu ʻōhiʻa); people engaged in such services. (Kam. 76:146.) See haku ʻōhiʻa, kapu ʻōhiʻa kō. Fig., shadow of death, deep gloom or shade (PH 25, FS 158–9). Lit., adze taboo. Piʻi hou ka malu koʻi o nā kānaka (For. 4:53), the image cutters of the people went up again.

malu koʻi

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Shadow of death; deep gloom. Lit., kapu adze.

malu koʻi

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Services attending the cutting of the ʻōhiʻa tree for a heiau and the carving of images to be placed in the luakini.

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