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ʻoʻō

heheleintransitive verb Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

vi., To crow, as a rooster; cock-a-doodle-doo.

  • Examples:
    • Komo ka ʻuhane a loko o ke kino ā ka umauma, ā ka puʻu, ʻoʻō moa aʻela ʻo Kawelu (For. 5:189), the soul entered within the body, up to the chest, to the throat, and then Kawelu crowed like a chicken [a sign that she had been resuscitated].
  • References:
    • PPN kokoo.

Nā LepiliTags: onomatopoeia

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ʻōʻō

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

1. Reduplication of ʻō #1; to pierce, lance, poke, put in, insert; to pierce the fetus in the womb with a sharp instrument in order to practice infanticide; to abort; to cut, as to let blood; to hurl, as a spear.

  • Examples:
    • Lele ʻōʻō, to leap into the water feet first, without splashing.
    • ʻŌʻō heʻe pali (Kep. 103), to poke out tiny octopuses from cracks.

2. n., Digging stick, digging implement, spade.

  • References:
    • PCP kookoo.

3. n., A black honey eater (Moho nobilis 🌐), with yellow feathers in a tuft under each wing, which were used for featherwork; endemic to island of Hawaiʻi, now extinct.

  • References:

4. n., A type of fish, perhaps a swordfish.

Nā LepiliTags: fauna Hawaiʻi Molokaʻi Oʻahu Kauaʻi

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nvi., Matured, ripe, as fruit; of mature age, middle-aged, elderly; to mature, ripen, or grow old; an adult human, maturity (see ex., ʻeʻelekū).

  • Examples:
    • Molokaʻi pule oʻo, Molokaʻi [of the] potent prayers [figuratively, reference to Molokaʻi's fame in sorcery].
  • References:
    • Cf. oʻo ʻole.
    • PCP oko.

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1. v., To ripen; to become ripe, as fruit. Ios. 3:15.

2. Applied to men; he kanaka oo loa, a full grown man; he kanaka elemakule. ua oo.

3. To come to maturity, as children grown up to manhood.

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1. v., See o, to pierce, dot into, &c. To crowd or cram into, as tobacco into a pipe; e oo iho i ka ipubaka i paa ai ka ipubaka ke puhi aku; e nounou.

2. To crowd herbs, &c., of an inflammatory nature into the vagina of a female to procure abortion.

3. To pierce with a sharp instrument the fœtus in the womb; oo no lakou i na keiki, ua nui na kamalii i make pela. See aomilo. He nui wale na wahine i oo i ka lakou mau keiki i ka manawa e hapai ai.

4. To commit infanticide generally, of which the Hawaiians had a variety of methods.

5. To stab or pierce, as with a spear; oo iho la laua i ko Keeaumoku kua i ka pahoa, they two stabbed the back of Keeaumoku with a pahoa.

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oo

kikinonoun / O-O / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

s., Name of the process by which a child was killed in the womb.

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oo

kikinonoun / O-O / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

s., The instrument anciently used by Hawaiians in cultivating the ground. Originally it was made of some hard wood flattened and sharpened at one end so as to dig with. The kinds of wood were the alahee, ulei, kauila, the uhiuhi, &c. Iron since its introduction has taken the place of these kinds of woods.

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oo

kikinonoun / O-O / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

s., Name of a species of bird living in the mountains in the daytime and flies to the sea at night; a small brown bird, web-footed.

Nā LepiliTags: fauna birds

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oo

kikinonoun / O-O / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

s., Name of a species of bird found in great numbers on Hawaii; the feathers were much valued by the chiefs for ornamenting their persons.

Nā LepiliTags: fauna birds

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oo

kikinonoun / O-O / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

s., Name of a large fly brush.

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oo

ʻaʻanostative verb / O-O / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

1. adj., Ripe; mature, as fruit. Ier. 24:2.

2. Applied also to full grown young people; ai oo mua, first ripe fruit. Puk. 22:29.

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oo

kikinonoun / ŏ-ō' / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. n., The bird (Mono nobilis) which furnished feathers from which the ahuula or feather cloaks were made.

2. n., A large kahili or fly brush made of the feathers of the oo.

Nā LepiliTags: fauna birds

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v., [O, to pierce.] To crowd or cram into, as tobacco into a pipe; e oo iho i ka ipubaka i paa ai ka ipubaka ke puhi aku; e nounou.

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1. v., To ripen; to become ripe, as fruit.

2. v., Applied to men; to reach maturity: he kanaka oo loa, a full grown man; he kanaka elemakule, ua oo. To come to maturity, as children grown up to manhood.

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oo

kikinonoun / o-o' / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

n., Implement anciently used by Hawaiians in cultivating the ground. Originally it was made of some hard wood flattened and sharpened at one end for digging. The kinds of wood were the alahee, ulei, kauila, uhiuhi, etc. Iron, after its introduction, took the place of these woods.

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oo

ʻaʻanostative verb / o'o / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. adj., Ripe; mature, as fruit: ai oo mua, first ripe fruit.

2. adj., Applied also to full grown young people; mature.

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ʻŌʻō

iʻoaproper noun WahiLocation, Place Names of Hawaiʻi (1974),

Lane, Lanakila section, Honolulu, Oʻahu.

  • Literally, black honeyeater (its yellow feathers were used for feather work).

Nā LepiliTags: Oʻahu

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To ripen, as fruit; to mature, as an adult. Applied to fullgrown young people. See ʻāoʻo.

Black honeyeater. There are four species, three of which (Acrulocercus apicalis, Acrulocercus nobilis, and Acrulocercus bishopi, on the islands of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, and Molokaʻi, respectively) are extinct. The Kauaʻi honeyeater, ʻōʻōʻāʻā (Acrulocercus braccatus) was thought to be extinct, but in 1978 John Sincock sighted one deep in the Alakaʻi Swamp, a drenched jungle in the Wai-ʻaleʻale mountain area, claimed to be the wettest spot in the world. The black honeyeater is entirely black except for a tuft of yellow feathers under each wing, which were widely used in the illuminations of capes, helmets, and belts for royalty.

Bishopʻs ʻōʻō (Acrulocercus bishopi), named after Charles Reed Bishop, founder of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. This ʻōʻō was native to Molokaʻi and is now extinct. It is similar to the Moho nobilis, the black honeyeater.

Digging stick used to make holes for the slips, vines, or cuttings of the sweet potato. (NP 136.)

Digging sticks made of various woods. 1. alaheʻe, a large, native hardwood shrub (Canthium odoratum). (NEAL 797). 2. kauila, a native of the buckthorn family supplying a very hard wood. (NEAL 541). 3. ʻūlei, a native spreading shrub (Osteomeles anthyllidifolia) noted for its toughness. (NEAL 387.)

hl. hoi, ken aku, oi aku, emi iho.

ripe (of fruit); mature (of people and animals).

‘o’‘o’

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

digging tool: to crow.

A bird that lives in the mamane trees. In re Boundaries of Kaohe, 8 Haw. 455, 456 (1892).

Of mature age (PE).

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