Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. vt. To change, alter, influence, turn, turn over.

• Related:
  • Loli wale, to change for apparently no reason or whimsically; variable.
  • Loli ʻana, change, conversion, variation, evolution.
  • Loli aʻe, to vary, change.
  • hoʻololi Caus/sim.; To change, convert, exchange, alter, transform, take a new form, amend; amendment, change.
    • Hoʻololi i ka lole, change clothes.
    • Hoʻololi ʻōlelo, amend, decline, conjugate.
    • Hoʻololi i ka manaʻo, to change the mind.
    • Hoʻololi mai i ka noi, to amend a motion.
    • Hoʻololi kālā, currency exchange.

2. n. Sea slug, sea cucumber, beche-de-mer, trepang (Holothuria spp. 🌐); for some people an ʻaumakua.

• References:
  • See kūkaeloli and saying, ʻīloli.
  • PPN loli.

3. vs. Spotted, speckled, daubed; to color in spots, as tapa.

• References:
  • Cf. īloli #2.

sea-slug: to turn over, to change.