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1. n., Several native trees, the soapberry (Sapindus saponaria f. inaequalis), and all species of Zanthoxylum 🌐 (also known as Fagara, Zanthoxylum having yellowish wood formerly used for digging sticks and spears); seeds of all (largest in the soapberry) are black, round, and used for leis.

• Related:
  • Also: mānele.
• References:
  • PPN ake .

2. (Cap.) n., Northeast tradewind.

• References:
  • Cf. A ʻe Loa, Moaʻe, naʻe.

3. n., Blight.

• References:
  • Malo 199.

4. directional. Upward, sideways, nearby, contiguous, adjoining, next, approaching (often expresses space and time near the addressee, table 2, Gram. 7.2).

• Examples:
  • Hele aʻe, to go up, sideways.
  • Kanaka ʻē aʻe, different person.
  • Kēia pule aʻe, next week.
  • Koʻu mua aʻe, the one born just before me [older sibling, the one before me].
  • ʻO wai hou aʻe? Who will be the next?
  • Ā he aha aʻe? And what next?
  • ʻO āu keiki aʻe kēia, here come your children.
  • Ia lā aʻe, ia lā aʻe, from day to day.
  • ʻĪ aʻela ʻoia, he said to someone nearby (Cf. aku #2).
• Related:
  • Aʻe also commonly expresses the comparative degree: maikaʻi aʻe, better.
  • Followed by nei, aʻe indicates recent past; Ua hele aʻe nei no Maui, [he] has just gone to Maui.
  • Aʻe + demonstrative lā is pronounced and written as a single word, aʻela.
• References:
  • PPN hake .

5. Replacement of e in songs (commonly written a e, but a glottal stop is pronounced before ʻe).

• Examples:
  • ʻA ʻole mākou aʻe minamina i ka puʻu kālā a ke aupuni (song), we do not care about the government's sum of money.

6. n., Maui name for maua #2, trees.

• Source:
  • Maui