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• Land division, Hanalei district, Kauaʻi. Perhaps named for a legendary oppressive chief who was defeated by Kawelo (For. Sel. 32-113.)
• An ancient name for Pūkoʻo harbor, Molokaʻi, where inhabitants were washed into the ocean by a Kona storm and eaten by sharks (Jarrett 21). Pandanus groves here produced fine fruit (Ka Leo o Ka Lahui, February 22, 1894).

Literally, man-eating.

1. n., Name of a star.

2. An older cousin of Kawelo; on becoming chief of Kauaʻi he banished Kawelo's parents, thus provoking an invasion.

• Literally, man-eating.
• References:
  • See Kawelo.
  • HM 241-242.

3. An Oʻahu chief who sent men to fetch the beautiful wife of Halemano, causing the couple to flee the island.

4. Maui chief who married Hinahānaiakamalama. Hina wearied of disposing of her children's excrement and lept into the moon. Her husband, trying to stop her, caught her leg. She hangs in the moon today.

5. (ʻai kanaka) n.v., cannibal, man-eater; to eat human flesh.

6. placename, land division, perhaps named for a legendary oppressive chief who was defeated by Kawelo (FS 32-113.) An ancient name for Pūkoʻo harbor, Molokaʻi, where inhabitants were washed into the ocean by a Kona storm and eaten by sharks (Jarrett 21). Pandanus groves here produced fine fruit (Ka Leo o Ka Lahui, February 22, 1894).

• Literally, man-eating.