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The pronunciation of the word pa'u is in two syllables because of the use of the Hawaiian diacritic called the okina. This apostrophe-like symbol indicates a glottal stop and precedes a separate vowel sound. This keeps similarly spelled words such as pau (pronounced "pow") and pa'u (pronounced "pah-oo") from being confused. [1]
In Trum’s Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends, page 187 he tells of a drum called the "pahu ka`eke" in the story of Ai Kanaka. Below is what is widely believed today among hula practitioners. The pahu is a traditional musical instrument found in Polynesia: Hawaii, Tahiti, Cook Islands, Samoa, and Tokelau. Carved from a single ...
A hālau is Hawaiian word meaning a school, academy, or group. Literally, the word means "a branch from which many leaves grow." Today a hālau usually describes a hula school (hālau hula). The teacher at the hālau is the kumu hula, where kumu means source of knowledge, or literally just teacher.
"Kapu" used on a "no trespassing" sign. Kapu is the ancient Hawaiian code of conduct of laws and regulations. The kapu system was universal in lifestyle, gender roles, politics and religion.
Note: The word ʻewa can also mean crooked, out of shape, imperfect, ill-fitting. The word ewa, (without the okina), means unstable, swaying, wandering; strayed . This section is here to highlight some of the most common words of the Hawaiian Language, ʻŌlelo , that are used in everyday conversation amongst locals.
Hawaiian word Meaning Pronunciation () Definition link ʻAʻā: A kind of rough-surface volcanic rock. Note that there are two glottal stops before and after the first a. ...
Hawaiian attitudes towards the high chiefs have changed; the ancient high chiefs are often seen today as oppressors, invaders who descended upon a peaceful and egalitarian Hawaiian population. [ citation needed ] Activists praise these pre-Paʻao days as the real Hawaiian past, to be revived and reenacted in the present, and vilify Paʻao as a ...
Five men were killed in the catastrophe, her mother house was burned to the ground, and she was badly injured. In commemorating her escape she was given the name Pauahi, which is composed of two Hawaiian words, pau, "finished", or "completed" and ahi, "fire", which, when translated, means "the fire is out". [2]