Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. nvi., To disappear swiftly; to move swiftly, as a stream of water; to make off with quickly; to steal; to wilt; to depart quickly; current.

• Examples:
  • ʻIo o mio lani (For. 6:395), hawk disappearing into the sky.
  • Ua mio ʻia aku nei ke kālā a Paulo, Paul's money was quickly stolen.
  • Maʻō i mio aku nei, went swiftly that way.
  • E holo pololei ai kona waʻa ma ka mio a ke kai (Nak. 114), his canoe sails straight with the current of the sea.
• References:
  • See palamio.

2. vs., Narrow, pointed, tapering.

ʻaʻano, Streamlined, sleek.

• Source:
  • Niʻihau.
• Examples:
  • Kaʻa mio. Sports car.

To make off with quickly, steal.

Sleight-of-hand. (CMH.)

A place where a stream of water is confined within very narrow bounds, and hence runs very swiftly, like water in a millrace; the flowing or running of water in a narrow place (AP).