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ʻeaʻea

/ ʻea.ʻea / Pukui-Elbert Haw to Eng,

1. Reduplication of ʻea #4, spray; encrusted with spray (sometimes confused with eaea and ʻeʻaʻeʻa).

  • Examples:
    • Ka lawaiʻa nui i ʻeaʻea nā kuʻemaka, i ʻehuʻehu nā lihilihi, the great fisherman whose brows are sprayed with sea and whose lashes are reddened [admiration of a fisherman].

2. Dignified, honorable.

  • References:
    • And.

3. n., A bird (no data).

Nā LepiliTags: fauna birds

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Interj. at end of verses in some chants that maintains rhythm and affords pleasure in repetition, something like English tra-la-la. Nani wale nā hala, ʻeāʻeā, o Naue i ke kai, ʻeāʻeā (song), beautiful indeed the pandanus, tra-la, of Naue by the sea, tra-la.

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