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puʻuwai

/ puʻu.wai / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert,

1. n., Heart.

  • Examples:
    • Puʻuwai ʻeleʻele, scoundrel, rogue; black-hearted.
    • Puʻuwai hāmama, generous, openhearted.
    • Puʻuwai haokila, heart of steel, courageous.
    • Puʻuwai Hoʻāno, Sacred Heart.
    • Puʻuwai kapalili, fluttering heart.
  • Related:
    • Use of puʻuwai as a center of emotions (instead of naʻau, ʻōpū, or loko) is probably a Western concept, but was noted in a chant dated 1853: Ke hōʻeuʻeu nei i ka puʻuwai, stirring now the heart.

2. n., A heart-shaped locket, as of gold (kula) or silver (kālā).

3. n., Small suckers on a taro plant (probably from puʻu uai, lumps removed, since these shoots were broken off so that the tuber might grow larger).

  • Rare

4. n., Wrapped packages of vegetable food.

  • Rare

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puʻuwai

Haw to Eng, Māmaka Kaiao,

See hoʻoikaika puʻuwai, koʻe puʻuwai. Pona puʻuwai. Atrium, of the mammalian heart. Also pona. Pona puʻuwai hema. Left atrium. Also pona hema. Pona puʻuwai ʻākau. Right atrium. Also pona ʻākau. ʻŌpū puʻuwai. Ventricle, of the mammalian heart. Also ʻōpū. ʻŌpū puʻuwai hema. Left ventricle. Also ʻōpū hema. ʻŌpū puʻuwai ʻākau. Right ventricle. Also ʻōpū ʻākau.

PUU-WAI

Haw to Eng, Andrews,

s. Puu and wai, liquid. The material heart; the active muscle which receives and distributes the blood through the animal system; the heart. 2 Nal. 9:24. NOTE.—The ancient Hawaiians supposed that there was nothing but water in the muscle called the heart, hence the name puuwai.

2. Food of different kinds of vegetables tied up in bunches and put into the oven; he luau i hana laulau ia a hookomoia i ka pohaku. See LUAU.

Puuwai (pu'u-wā'i), n.

/ pu'u-wā'i / Haw to Eng, Parker,

[Puu, a swelling, a bunch, and wai, liquid.]

1. The heart. (The ancient Hawaiians supposed that there was nothing but water in. the heart. hence the name puuwai.)

2. Food of different kinds of vegetables tied up in bunches and put into the oven.

3. The very small oha or suckers of the taro.

Puʻuwai

/ pu'u-wā'i / Haw to Eng, Parker,

the heart. Point. Niʻihau.

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Puʻuwai

Wahi ｜ Location, Place Names of Hawaiʻi,

Village and point, Niʻihau. Lit., heart.

Puʻuwai

Wahi ｜ Location, Hawaiʻi Place Names,

Beach, surf site, west coast, Niʻihau. Narrow calcareous sand beach between Kalanaei and Paliuli Points. Low vegetated dunes line the backshore, and patch reefs and sand-bars front the beach. The surf site is off the beach. Puʻuwai, the only inhabited village on the island, is at the south end of the beach. Lit., heart.

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