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nvs., Faint, feeble, exhausted; nauseous dizziness.

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  • Cf. puaaneane.

1. v., To be exhausted, as a man with hunger or by long abstinence: by long sleep, or by diving in deep water.

2. To blow softly, as a light breeze or zephyr.

3. To be almost something; to be almost at a place. Laieik. 71. Aneane oia e hoohiki ino aku i kona akua, he almost cursed his god. Laieik. 158. Almost to do something. Oih. 19:27. See ane.

1. s., A jest; a kind of jocose denial to a request.

2. A vacancy of the stomach for want of food or from sickness; he aneane no la; he aneane pupuka no la; he aneane pono la; he aneane hiki no la.

adj., See ane. Faint; feeble; low; weak, as a sick person.

adv., See ane. Nearly; almost; in danger of; liable to; applied to number; he aneane pono ole ko’u noho ana maanei; aneane make, unto death, almost dead. Lunk. 16:16.

1. adj., Faint; feeble; low; weak: he leo aneane; a faint voice.

2. adj., Uttered at the time of dying; ending; closing; expiring.

1. adv., Scarcely; hardly; not quite.

2. adv., Nearly; almost. See ane.

n., Lack of food; emptiness.

1. v., To be exhausted, as with hunger; to be pinched or nipped by hunger; to be hunger-bitten.

2. v., To blow gently, as a light breeze.