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1. nvi., To answer, reply yes, agree, say, talk; halloo, yes (in reply); tinkling, tolling, or chime of a bell; resonance, as generated by the thumping of a gourd drum on a pad; sound of whistling (Kauaʻi); sound of peacocks; to make such sounds.

• Examples:
  • Kou inoa, e ō mai (FS 199), your name chant, answer.
  • E uhaele kākou i kahakai. Ō, e uhaele ʻiʻo aku kākou. Let's go to the beach. Yes, let's do go.
• References:
  • PPN oo .

2. vi., To remain, endure, survive, continue, go on, exist; continuing.

• Examples:
  • Ā pēlā paha i kō ai ke ō ʻana o kona inoa, probably thereby assuring the perpetuation of his name.
  • Ke ō nei nō kēlā mele, that song still survives now.
• References:
  • See oia, oia mau nō, malu.

3. n., Food provisions for a journey, especially at sea; sea rations.

• Related:
  • hoʻō Caus/sim.; To provide food for a journey.
• References:
  • PPN ʻoho .

4. n., Sprit of a sail or spar.

5. Short for one, sand, in place names, as Keōkea, the white sand.

6. Imperative marker, perhaps less emphatic than the more common e.

• Examples:
  • Ō hele kāua, let's go.
  • Ō uhaele mai, won't you come.
• References:
  • See ex., ʻī #1.

7. Short for the particle iō, as after prepositions.

• Examples:
  • Holo akula ʻoia mai ō lāua nei aku (Laie 603), he ran from the two of them.
  • Kiʻi mua akula ʻoia ma ō Kapa-hai-haoa (Laie 595), he first looked for Kapa-hai-haoa.

Particle marking the subject, being especially common before names of people, the interrogative wai, and the pronoun ia. ʻO also marks apposition (Gram. 9.13).

• Examples:
  • ʻO au nō, it's I.
  • Me kāna wahine ʻo Hina, with his wife, Hina.
  • ʻO hea? Where?
  • Make nō ʻoia iaʻu, I killed him (literally, died indeed subject-he by-me).
• References:
  • Gram. 9.2.
  • PPN ko.

Same as ʻō- (cf. ʻolalau); pronounced ʻow- before e (ʻoehuehu); the -w- need not be written unless the following vowel is the initial sound of a recognizable base, as ʻowala, to turn over (cf. wala, to tilt). (PCP ko(o)-.)

1. loc.n., There, yonder, beyond (usually visible or pointed to; cf. laila, usually invisible and anarphoric; often following ma-, i, mai, Gram. 8.6).

• Examples:
  • I ʻō i ʻaneʻi, here and there, to and fro.
  • Maʻō aʻe nei, nearby, not far.
  • Mai ʻō ā ʻō, everywhere.
  • I ʻō, i ʻō, this way and that way.
  • Noho maʻō, sit over there.
  • Maʻō loa aku, far beyond.
  • ʻAlawa nā maka o ka ʻaihue i ʻō i ʻō, the eyes of the thief glanced this way and that.
  • I ʻō i ʻō aʻe, from that point to yonder point.
  • Nā ʻōlelo pili i ʻō ī ʻaneʻi, general provisions; literally, words referring to there to here.
  • Mai ʻō a ʻō, from that point to that point [all over, everywhere].
  • E ulu mai ka puka o ke dālā maʻō nā pakeneka ʻaʻole e ʻoi aku maʻō o ʻelima pakeneka o ka makahiki, the interest on the money grows because of the percentage of not more than five percent yearly.
• References:
  • PPN koo.

2. nvt., Any piercing instrument, fork, pin, skewer, harpoon, sharp-pointed stick, pitchfork, fishing spear; coconut husker; sharp darting body pain; to pierce, vaccinate, prick, stab, thrust; to flash, as lightning; to extend; to dip in, as the finger; to reach, to appear; to force a way out; to fall into, tumble out; to tassel, as sugar cane.

• Examples:
  • Ua ʻō kō kea, the white sugar cane has tasseled [to gray with age].
  • Ka ʻō ʻana o ka uila, the flash of lightning.
  • He ʻō ʻia ka mea hāwāwā i ka heʻe nalu, one unskilled in surfing is given a tumble.
  • ʻŌ aku ʻoia i kona mau lima i ka poʻe nele (Sol. 31.20), he extended his hands to the needy.
• Related:
  • hoʻō Caus/sim.; To cause to enter, put or dip in, thrust in, insert; to reach in.
    • Hoʻō ʻoma, to put in an oven.
    • Hoʻō poʻo, to rush headlong regardless of consequence.
    • Hoʻō akula ʻo Hiku i ka ʻuhane o Kawelu ma nā wāwae (For. 5:189), Hiku caused Kawelu's soul to enter at the feet.
• References:
  • Cf. ʻōahi, ʻō lima.
  • PNP koso, PCP koo.

3. Similar to kuni ola but with less elaborate ceremony.

• References:
  • Kam. 64:37.

4. n., A hula step in which the hip is quickly thrust (ʻō) outward; similar to the kāwelu except that the foot pivots while turning to the opposite direction.

5. nvi., To hail, whoop, a hail; (commonly preceded by ke). Kani ke ʻō, he ihona pali, a whoop going down hill [an easy task].

6. vt., To fly, as a kite.

7. n., The letter “o.”

• Source:
  • English.

Similitude prefix sometimes translated somewhat, -ish: cf. aʻa, fibrous, ʻōaʻa, somewhat fibrous.

• Related:
  • ʻŌ- is pronounced ʻōw- before a (ʻōaʻa) and i (ʻōiwi) but -w- need not be written unless the following vowel is the initial sound of a recognizable base, as ʻōwili, bundle (cf. wili, to roll up).
• References:
  • Gram. 6.3.1.
  • PCP ko(o)-.

1. preposition, Of. This o forms part of the possessives, as koʻu, kou, kona, kō laila. Note idiomatic use, as below.

• Related:
  • ʻAʻohe mea o loko, nothing inside.
  • ʻA ʻole ʻili o ka puke, the book has no cover.
  • Ma o kō ke Akua aloha, because of God's love.
• References:
  • Gram. 9.6.
  • PPN (ʻ)o.

2. conjunction, Or, lest, if.

• References:
  • Gram. 11.1.