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alanui

/ ala.nui / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert,

n., Street, road, highway, thoroughfare, waterway, course. Literally, large path.

  • Examples:
    • Alanui hele, any traversed road.
    • Alanui o ke keʻa, station of the cross.
    • Alanui polohiwa a Kanaloa, the dark path of Kanaloa [southern limit of the sun in its yearly cycle, about the 15th and 16th days of the month Hilina Mā.
    • Alanui polohiwa a Kāne, the dark path of Kāne [northern limit of the sun, about the middle of the month Kaulua].
    • Alanui maʻawe ʻula a kanaloa, road of the scarlet footprint of Kanaloa [the western sky].
  • Related:
    • Poetic names for the equator are alanui a ke kuʻukuʻu, road of the spider, and alanui i ka piko o Wākea, road at Wākea’s navel.
  • References:
    • PCP alanui.

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A-LA-NU-I

Haw to Eng, Andrews,

s. Ala, path, and nui, large.

A highway; a road; a frequented path. See ALALOA. In some places kuamoo is used.

Alanui (ā-lă-nŭ'i), n.

/ ā-lă-nŭ'i / Haw to Eng, Parker,

[Ala, path, and nui, large.] A highway; a road; a frequented path. (Kuamoo is the archaic form.) See alaloa.

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