Posts: 3,035
Threads: 201
Joined: Aug 2006
I love this site, you can look up the Hawaiian place names and get not only literal translations but the stories behind the name too.
http://wehewehe.org/gsdl2.5/cgi-bin/hdict?l=en
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Posts: 2,980
Threads: 177
Joined: Aug 2006
Wow. One of the alternative meanings of maku'u, as in maku'u drive, is pretty disgusting.
Posts: 496
Threads: 11
Joined: Jan 2008
eeewwwwww :-P
nice dictionary/translator thing though :-)
aloha, Liz
"The best things in life aren't things."
lizinhawaii.blogspot.com
Posts: 3,035
Threads: 201
Joined: Aug 2006
The meaning for kehena is pretty interesting too.
But if you plug in a place name like Lapahoehoe you get the whole Hawaiian mythos/history behind the name, as well as the literal meaning. My limited understanding of Hawaiian is that a lot of words have many meanings depending on context and placement in a sentence.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Posts: 2,402
Threads: 145
Joined: Apr 2005
This one is fun also, but the pronunciation part is hilarious for me.
http://www.geocities.com/~olelo/o-localhawaiian-a.html
mella l
"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong....because sometime in your life you will have been all of these."
mella l
Art and Science
bytheSEA
Posts: 2,980
Threads: 177
Joined: Aug 2006
I wish there were a really cool online Hawaiian course. It is very odd how the Hawaiian language lives on in song, but people don't speak it. How do they know how to write songs in Hawaiian if they don't speak it?
Posts: 140
Threads: 56
Joined: Sep 2006
Glen
For on line Hawaiian language check out this great site.
http://ksdl.ksbe.edu/kulaiwi/
Posts: 1,139
Threads: 42
Joined: Feb 2008
it's called hawaiian immersion (and you don't have to be hawaiian to attend). kids learn everything in hawaiian. and of course, there's the university of hawai'i hawaiian studies program. i know i have heard of online classes, but just can't think of the source/link.
regarding different meanings. when a phrase is said or written, there is ususally another/double meaning we call kauna.
"chaos reigns within.
reflect, repent and reboot.
order shall return."
microsoft error message with haiku poetry
"a great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
w. james
]