updated: 12/18/2016
| updated: 12/18/2016 |
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| ʻewa 1.vs.crooked, out of shape, imperfect, ill-fitting.fig., incorrect, unjust.[PPn *kewa,stiffness (of body), convulsion, rigor [ uncertain semantic connection]] 2.n.place name west ofHonolulu, used as a direction term. 3.n.Eve.fig., woman. 4.placename.plantation, plantation town, elementary school, and quadrangle west of Pearl Harbor,Oʻahu.lit.: crooked. (Kāne and Kanaloa threw a stone to determine district boundaries. The stone was lost but was found later atPili-o-Kahe.seeʻewaʻewa; Ii 98; Sterling and Summers 1:8; UL 84.) |
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| 1. | Uaʻewakapilinaakanihoniho. | The fitting of the scallops is imperfect. | ʻewa₁ |
| 2. | Uaʻewakapilinaakanihoniho. | The toothed edges do not fit perfectly [said of anything that is unsuitable or in poor taste]. | pilina₁ |