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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.

s., Ala, path, and nui, large.

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

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