nvs., Goods, property, assets, valuables, value, worth, wealth, importance, benefit, estate, use; useful, valuable, rich, costly, financial. (Probably related to wai #4, to retain, rather than to wai #1, water.)
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kikino, Value.
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s. Goods; property; that which is possessed or owned; property in distinction from money or cash; waiwai auhau, tax; tribute.
adj. Costly; rich; dear; valuable.
v. To enrich; to give one property. Hoo. To make rich; to supply one’s desires.
Costly; rich; dear; valuable.
1. Goods; property; that which is possessed or owned; property in distinction from money or cash; waiwai auhau, tax; tribute.
2. Value of; estimated worth of.
To be rich; to be valuable; to be successful.
I. Ua hoahuia na'lii i ko lakou waiwai ma na kulanakauhale papaa, Puk, 1:11; 1 Oihlii. 27:25; Ezera 5:17. 'Waiwai ma ka papu,' Ier. 41:8, oia ka waiwai i hunaia ma ka honua, o ka ai, a ia mea aku, ia mea aku. Pela no ka hana ma na aina e ae. Ua loaa[?]no ia mau waihona waiwai ma Beteseana i keia wa e noho nei. Pela no ua loaa no i na makua mua ma Amerika he mau ahu kulina a na Inikini i huna ai ma ka lepo. Ma ka Hikina, no ka aihue a me ka powa, ua hunaia ma ka lepo ke gula a me na mea kala; a mahope aku, ua loaa no i kekahi poe e eli ana. Ua imiia keia waiwai, i keia wa e noho nei, e ka poe Arabia; a ua manao lakou, oia ka mea a na haole e imi ai, i ko lakou eli ana ma Nineva, a ma na kulanakauhale e ae, Iob. 3:21; Sol. 2:4; Mat. 13:44. I kekahi makahiki iho nei, i ka eli ana o kekahi kanaka hana ma Sidona, ua loaa no kekahi mau ipu keleawe piha i ke kala i hanaia e Pilipo ke alii no Makedona a me kana keiki Alekane-dero. He mau tausani dala i hunaia i na makahiki elua tausani a keu.
goods, property: costly.
1. Property, both real and personal. Nakookoo v. Noholoa, 19 Haw. 667, 671 (1909). 2. Property.
Hayselden v. Wahineaea, 10 Haw. 10, 13 (1895). 3. “The word ʻwaiwai’ is a term of wide application meaning ʻproperty,’ and as used in this will may very properly be regarded as the Hawaiian equivalent for the English phrase ʻrents, issues and profits.’” Hapai v. Brown, 21 Haw. 499, 503-504 (1913). 4. Goods; property; that which is possessed or owned; property in distinction from money or cash; waiwai auhau, tax; tribute; value of; estimated worth of (AP). 5. Goods, property, assets (PE). 6. Estate.
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