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1. num. Tens (usually compounded with numbers from three to nine to indicate 30 to 90).

• Examples:
  • Kanaiwa, ninety.
  • Nā kana ʻekā (Kep. 159), tens of banana hands.
  • ʻO ka waʻa kana koʻokahi (Nak. 40), ten one-man canoes.
• References:
  • Gram. 10.3.

2. Idiom that follows perfective verb marker i and poss. o, and is followed by directionals; it is preceded by negatives. Extremely, beyond compare, without limit (in both favorable and pejorative senses).

• Examples:
  • ʻAʻohe i kana mia ka nui, ever so huge.
  • ʻA ʻole o kana mai kāu hana! What a lot of work you have to do! Theres no limit to your work! What dreadful things you do [in anger].
  • ʻA ʻole a kana mai ka uʻi! How perfectly beautiful!
• Related:
  • Also: see kaʻe #2.

3. n., Horizontal support in houses for carrying poles (ʻauamo).

4. (Cap.) n., A stroke in lua fighting, for chiefs.

5. (Cap.) A demigod.

• References:
  • HM 464–77.
  • See Kapuaʻi-o-Kana.

6. Variant of pana, to shoot.

• Rare

7. n., Ton.

• Eng.
• Related:
  • Also: kona.

Nominalizer noted in pale, to ward off, and palekana, safety; pill, to cling, and pilikana, relative. (PPN -tanga.)

1. poss. His, hers, its (a-form; see Gram. 8.4, 9.6). (PNP tana, taʻana; PEP taʻana, PCP taana,)

2. Also Sana (Cap.) n. Saint (in proper names). Kāna Lui, Saint Louis.

3. n. Canna. Eng.