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pāʻina

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Hawaiian

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Etymology

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The -na element is a common nominalizing suffix, although there is no corresponding verb *pāʻi.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /paːˈʔi.na/, [paːˈʔi.nə]

Noun

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pāʻina

  1. meal
  2. dinner (clarification of this definition is needed)
  3. small dinner party

Usage notes

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  • Formerly was used to mean a traditional Hawaiian feast until that meaning was replaced by luʻau in the mid-nineteenth century.

Verb

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pāʻina

  1. (transitive) to eat a pāʻina

References

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  • Elbert, Samuel H., Pukui, Mary Kawena (1979) Hawaiian Grammar, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, page 82
  • Pukui, Mary Kawena; Samuel H. Elbert (1986), Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, →ISBN, p. 303