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  • 'e'e: get in the canoes
  • aloha: hello, goodbye
  • anuenue: rainbow
  • awa: harbor, port, cove
  • hanohano: glorious, dignified, worthy of praises
  • Hawai'i nei: alternate reference to Hawai'i; Lit. "this Hawai'i"
  • heihei wa'a: canoe race
  • ho'oama'a: train,work hard; practice
  • ho'okele: attention
  • ho'omakaukau: get ready
  • hoe wa'a: canoe paddler, or to paddle canoe
  • huki: pull, get into it
  • huli: to turn or flip over
  • ihope: backward
  • imua: forward
  • kahea: caller
  • kahuna kalaiwa'a: canoe builder/carver
  • kane: man
  • kau: place, plant the blade
  • Keneke Mokupuni: Kent Island
  • le'ale'a: fun
  • mahalo: thank you
  • mo'olelo: history
  • 'ohana: family
  • 'okole maluna: bottoms up!
  • paliuli: divine place
  • pilialoha: friendship
  • wahi paua: spiritual place
  • wahine: woman
 

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