Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. Reduplication of heʻe #2, heʻe #3, heʻe #4; to slide, sag, fade; landslide, avalanche; soft, watery, melting.

• Examples:
  • E heheʻe auaneʻi ka poʻe āpau e noho ana ma Kanaʻana (Puk. 15.15), all the people of Canaan shall melt away.
• Related:
  • hoʻoheheʻe Caus/sim.; To melt, liquefy, cast, dissolve, soften; to slide, especially to slide by jerks, as on a hōlua, sled, or ti-leaf slide.
    • Wahi hoʻoheheʻe hao, foundry.
    • Wai hoʻoheheʻe, digestive juice.
    • E hoʻoheheʻe ʻoe i ʻehā ʻapo gula (Puk. 25.12), thou shalt cast four rings of gold.

2. nvs., Discharge, as of pus; fluid. He maʻi heheʻe (Oihk. 13.18), a boil.

hehele To melt. Dic. Kēkelē heheʻe. Melting point.

With maʻi, a running sore; boil furuncle. Central nidus of viscous matter which may or may not drain. (Oihk. 13:18.)