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Re: Hawaiian Problem

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Monday, May 7, 2001, 23:13
David Peterson wrote:
  >Anyway, here's the sentence:

He hele laua i ka auau kai.

    It's the two last words I don't know.  It means something like "They two
go to the..." and whatever those two words mean.  Can anyone help?>

The little I know of Hawaiian is thru historical linguistics.  There are
lots of homonyms, but-- kai is very likely ''sea, ocean"; at least one
meaning of au is "current", but redupl., quién sabe?  Could it mean,
"They're going surfing"?????