| 1 )
moʻolelo |
stories |
| 2 )
mele |
a song; traditional Hawaiian poetry |
| 3 )
kuleana |
responsibility, rights, duty |
| 4 )
create |
to make, invent, or establish |
| 5 )
destroy |
to demolish or wipe out; to ruin something |
| 6 )
acre |
a unit for measuring area, 43,560 square feet |
| 7 )
Kahiki |
an ancestral homeland, thought to be the island of the South Pacific |
| 8 )
suitable |
right for the purpose |
| 9 )
caldera |
a large crater on top of a volcano |
| 10 )
ancestor |
a distant relative that someone is descended from |
| 11 )
ʻaumakua |
an ancestral family guardian that takes on the form of an animal |
| 12 )
protocol |
rules for behavior, a code of conduct |
| 13 )
hoʻokupu |
a gift or tribute |
| 14 )
ʻaumākua |
The word ʻaumākua is the plural form of ʻaumakua |