Though I felt bad about missing class on Sunday, I was happy that I could attend my friend's birthday party. There was much aloha as we celebrated with him and serenaded him with Hawaiian mele on our 'ukuleles. And there was an abundance of ono food, ā ʹoia, as with any Hawaiian gathering!
Reading in ka puke Nā Kai ʹEwalu about Ka Pepeke ʹAike He and Ka Pepeke ʹAike ʹO really helped to cement in my mind the differences in the two forms. I liked the way it broke the sentences down into Poʹo – Piko - ′Awe. I looked up each of those words in the dictionary and was surprised at the definitions. I thought that poʹo would mean something like the object of the sentence, but it really means "head" or "end." "Piko" I already knew means "navel." And "ʹawe" means "strand, thread; thin, soft." These are rather poetic descriptions of sentence structure, I thought. But the examples were very helpful.
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