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vs., Better, well, well-being, fortunate, improved; to need (aho #3 + -na).

• Examples:
  • Pehea ʻoe? Ua ahona iki. How do you feel? A little better.
  • Ke ahona ihola nō ia, she's a little better just now.
  • Ahona mākou i ka ʻike ʻia e ka uka, we were fortunate to be seen by those on shore.
  • Hahana ka ʻāina, i ahona i ka makani, the heat of the land was relieved by the breeze.
  • I ahona iki nō au lā ia mau kānaka (Nak. 118), I do have some need for these men.

v. Ahona a kui maoli aku kela, lele liilii. Laieik. 42.

adv., Equivalent to the words, it were better. Ahona a kui maoli aku kela, lele liilii. (Laieik. p. 42.) Same as eaho. I ahona makou i ka ikeia e ka uka, we were fortunate to be seen by those on shore (an expression of shipwrecked persons). A complete phrase in which i ahona is used implies in general a receiving of some unexpected good.