1. nvi., Bonito, skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamis 🌐), an important food; to run, of aku.
- Examples:
- Ua aku ʻo Mahaiʻula (FS 287), bonitos are running at Mahaiʻula [place at Keāhole quadrangle, Kona, Hawaiʻi].
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2. Particle expressing direction away from the speaker, and time either past (with nei) or future (without nei, sometimes translated soon).
- Related:
- Aku contrasts with mai and sometimes may be translated away.
- Hele aku, go away.
- Kūʻai aku, to sell.
- Kēlā makahiki aku nei, last year.
- Kēlā pule aku nei, last week.
- ʻApōpō ā ia lā aku, day after tomorrow.
- Nehinei ā ia lā aku, day before yesterday.
- Kēia lā aku, later today, sometime today.
- I aha ʻia aku nei? What happened a while ago?
- Na Ioane aku i nā ʻekalekia (Hoik. 1.4), John said to the churches.
- Aku + demonstrative lā is pronounced and written as a single word, akula. ʻĪ akula ʻoia, he said to someone far away (cf. aʻe #4).
- Aku sometimes expresses the comparative degree: Nā mea nui aku i kēia, things larger than this.
- In an idiom, aku is sometimes used as a noun after the plural definite article nā: I nā aku, right away, soon. He mea ʻai i nā aku (Kep. 121), food will be here soon.
- References:
- Table 12 in Gram. 7.2.
- PPN atu.