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1. nvt., Instruction, teaching, doctrine, learning, instruction book, manual, advice, counsel; to learn, teach, advise, instruct, train, tutor, coach, prescribe, admonish.

• Examples:
  • E aʻo kākou iā ʻoe i ke kino lele o kō wahine (For. 4:73), we will teach you the flying power [literally, body] of your wife.
  • Na wai ʻoe i aʻo? Who taught you?

• Related:
  • Many kinds of instruction are listed as aʻo heluhelu, aʻo hōkū, aʻo kiko, aʻo loko, aʻo palapala, aʻo piliʻōlelo.
  • Aʻo ikaika, aʻo ʻoʻoleʻa, teach harshly, discipline.
  • ʻŌlelo aʻo, advice, precept, instruction.
  • Aʻo poko, briefly taught; to learn a little [said of lowly individuals].
  • Lohe mai ke aʻo, idiomatic intensifier, as in Kalohe ā lohe mai ke aʻo, mischievous beyond boundary.
  • Nani ā lohe mai ke aʻo, extremely beautiful.
  • hoʻāʻo Caus/sim.; To test, try, attempt, taste, undertake, experiment, endeavor, tempt (Kin. 22.1); to do a little (equivalent of the pidgin English “try” before verbs; see ex., kuhi hewa).
    • Poʻe e hoʻāʻo ana, contestants.
    • E hoʻāʻo mai ana ʻoe e hīmeni? Won't you sing a little? [Pidgin, “try sing”]
• References:
  • See lohe for idioms.
  • PPN ako.

2. Particle replacing o, of, and ʻo, subject marker, in songs.

• Examples:
  • ʻO nā pali aʻo Koʻolau Loa, the cliffs of Koʻolau Loa.
  • Lapakū ka wahine aʻo Pele, the woman, Pele, is very active.
• References:
  • Gram. 2.8, 9.13.

1. nvi. Light, day, daylight, dawn; to dawn, grow light; enlightened; to regain consciousness.

• Examples:
  • Piliwaiwai lākou ā ao ka pō, they gambled until night became day [all night long, until dawn].
  • Kēlā pō ā ao aʻe i nehinei, night before last; lit., that night that dawned yesterday.
  • Ā ao ka pō ā pō ke ao, when night becomes day until the day becomes night [for a night and a day].
  • Ua ao mar ka noʻonoʻo, the mind is functioning.
• Related:
  • hoʻāo Caus/sim.
    • a. To marry; marriage (old term, probably literally, to stay until daylight).
    • b. (Cap.) Night of the day called Huna, eleventh night of the month, when the hoʻāo nuptials took place. (PPN ʻaho.)
• References:
  • Cf. aokanaka.

2. n. Any kind of a cloud, including ʻōpua, but specifically, high clouds that when wind-blown scud along (kaʻa).

• Examples:
  • Ao kai lilo a Kāne, a cloud over the distant sea of Kāne [away out, where only cloud and sea are seen].
• References:
  • See ex., pūnohu #1, and cf. aokū, ao loa, ao ʻōnohi, aouli, ʻōpua, pālāmoa, pāpalamoa, puapuaʻa.
  • PPN ʻao.

3. n. World, earth, realm.

• Examples:
  • Ke ao o Milu, the realm of the underworld.

4. vt. To be careful, beware, watch out.

• Examples:
  • E ao naʻe ʻoe iā Kalahumoku (For. 5:413), beware then of Kalahumoku.
  • E ao ʻoe o ʻeha, be careful or you'll be hurt.

5. Rare variant of wao, upland area.

• Rare

6. idiom, The exact image of (preceded by a ʻe).

• Examples:
  • ʻO ka makuahine nō a ʻe ao, the image of the mother.

7. n. A kind of fine mat.

8. n. A kind of fish (no data).

• References:
  • KL. line 149.

1. n., A new shoot, leaf, or bud, especially of taro.

• References:
  • UL 17.
  • Cf. ʻahu ʻao, ʻao kahi, ʻao lūʻau.
  • PCP kao.

2. n., Dried baked taro or sweet potato; in Kaʻū this food was hung in baskets in the wind so that it dehydrated; it was used on sea journeys and is perhaps related to ō, sea rations.

• References:
  • PCP kao.

3. n., Ship biscuit, pilot bread, hardtack.

n., Newell's puffin or shearwater (Puffinus puffinis newelli), said to be the only sea bird endemic to Hawaiʻi, and to breed only in Hawaiʻi; glossy black above, white beneath; endangered.

• Examples:
  • Hoʻokahi nō hua a ka ʻaʻo, the ʻaʻo lays but a single egg [said of an only child].
• Related:
  • Also: liʻo.