Inoa | Name(s)
Pūʻali Komohana; Nā Wai ʻEhā
Hiʻona ʻāina | Land characteristic: Moku
Hiʻona ʻāina o loko o kēia wahi | Feature(s) located within this place: Maui
Hiʻona ʻāina nona kēia wahi | Feature(s) that contain this place: Waiehu; Waiheʻe; Waikapū; Wailuku
Hōʻuluʻulu manaʻo
He moku kēia ma ka mokupuni o Maui. Aia ma ka ʻaoʻao komohana o ka mokupuni, ma kahi kokoke o Kula a me Hāmākuapoko ma ka ʻaoʻao hikina, a me Lāhainā a me Kāʻanapali ma ka ʻaoʻao komohana. He mau inoa ko kēia wahi, lohe pinepine ʻia ʻo “Nā Wai ʻEhā,” no nā wahi o kēia moku i kapa ʻia no ke kahe nui ʻana i ka wai. ʻO ia nō ʻo Wailuku, Waiheʻe, Waiʻehu, a me Waikapū. No ka ʻāina o kēia wahi, ʻōlelo ʻia, “Wailuku i ka malu he kuawa.”
Description
Land division, elementary school, quadrangle, heights, city, point, sugar company, and stream, West Maui; site of the battle in the late eighteenth century in which the army of Ka-lani-ʻōpuʻu was nearly annihilated by Ka-hekili of Maui. (Kuy. 1:31; PH 57; RC 148.) See Ke-pani-wai. Lit., water [of] destruction.
ʻŌlelo kuhikuhi
E koho iā “Pūʻali Komohana” no nā kumuwaiwai i kahi i kapa ʻia ʻO Pūʻali Komohana a i ʻole Nā Wai ʻEhā ma Maui.
Instructions
Use for Pūʻali Komohana and Nā Wai ʻEhā on the island of Maui.
Moʻokūʻauhau | Genealogy
Akua | Deity: Haumea; Ա; Kanaloa
Kanaka | Person: Kamehameha; Kahekili; Kalaniʻōpuʻu; Kihaapiʻilani
Hana | Practice: Hana kaua; Ѳʻ; Heʻe nalu; Lele kawa; ɲʻ
Kūmole | Source(s)
Pata, Cody Pueo. ʻOhuʻohu Nā Mauna o ʻEʻeka : Place Names of Maui Komohana. Lahaina, Maui, Hawai’i: North Beach-West Maui Benefit Fund Inc., 2022.
Pukui, Mary Kawena. ’Olelo No’eau : Hawaiian Proverbs & Poetical Sayings. Honolulu, Hawai’i: Bishop Museum Press, 1983.
Sterling, Elspeth P. Sites of Maui. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1998.
Hoʻopili ʻia i | Applied to: ,
Mea haku | Created by: Na ka hui ʻimi naʻauao o Ka Wai Hāpai