Kupua Chapter Vocabulary

1 ) witness to see something happen with your own eyes
2 ) demigod a being that is half human and half god
3 ) depict show or illustrate
4 ) entice attract or tempt
5 ) ʻoʻopu general name for any one of the five types of native stream fish of Hawaiʻi
6 ) brindled having fur or hair that has irregular streaks of a darker color
7 ) nurturing take care of, look after
8 ) phenomena an extraordinary and wondrous occurrence that is not man-made, such as lightning
9 ) kinolau many bodies, plant and animal forms that gods can appear in or that are signs for particular gods
10 ) huli the top of the kalo corm and the stalk, cut off in order to replant it
11 ) decline refuse, turn down
12 ) Kahiki The lands beyond the horizon; ancestral homeland of the Hawaiian race, usually said to be the inlands of the South Pacific
13 ) transform change, alter
14 ) puaʻa pig
15 ) Lono god of agriculture and rain
16 ) equinox when the length of night and day are approximately equal
17 ) solstice the longest or shortest days of the year
18 ) Lono ke akua Hawaiʻi o ka mahiʻai a me ka ua
19 ) makakū ka moeā ma ka haku ʻana i mea hou
20 ) mākonā he hana ʻino ke ʻano
21 ) māuiili ka lā e like ai ka lōʻihi o ka lā a me ka pō
22 ) māuikiʻikiʻi nā lā lōʻihi loa a pōkole loa o ka makahiki
23 ) moʻo he hulu peʻelua a kaha ʻia paha i kekahi waihoʻoluʻu ikaika
24 ) muʻemuʻe he ʻawaʻawa; ʻaʻohe ʻono
25 ) nakinaki ka nākiʻi ʻana
26 ) nū ka ʻū ʻana e like me ka puaʻa
27 ) pāhaʻohaʻo ka loli a hoʻololi ʻana paha o ke kino