{"id":11698,"date":"2015-09-18T17:28:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T16:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=11698"},"modified":"2015-09-18T17:28:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T16:28:06","slug":"aa-a-kind-of-rough-surface-volcanic-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=11698","title":{"rendered":"A&#8217;a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One Hawaiian word that is used in English is <strong>a&#8217;a<\/strong>, which is defined as &#8220;a kind of rough-surface volcanic rock&#8221; [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_English_words_of_Hawaiian_origin\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>However in Hawaiian it is written <strong>\u02bba\u02bb\u0101<\/strong>, pronounced [\u0294\u0259\u02c8\u0294a\u02d0] and means:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. to burn, blaze, glow; fire; staring (eyes)<br \/>\n2. lava; stony, abounding with \u02bba\u02bb\u0101 lava<br \/>\n3. Sirius (the star)<br \/>\n4. young stage of damselfish<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The word <strong>a\u02bba<\/strong> [\u0259\u02c8\u0294a] means:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. small root, rootlet, vein, artery, nerve, tendon, muscle<br \/>\n2. to send greetings or love; joyous hospitality; joy at greeting a loved one<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is also <strong>\u02bba\u02bba<\/strong> [\u0294\u0259\u02c8\u0294a], which means: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. to brave, dare, challenge, defy, check, venture; to accept a challenge; to volunteer; to act wickedly or presumptuously; bold, venturesome, valiant, intrepid<br \/>\n2. belt, girdle, waist; to gird, to tie on<br \/>\n3. bag, pocket, caul, envelope for a foetus, scrip; fiber from coconut husk; clothlike sheath at base of coconut frond; cloth; chaff, hull<br \/>\n4. a wind<br \/>\n5. booby bird<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And <strong>\u02bb\u0101.\u02bb\u0101<\/strong> [\u0294a\u02d0.\u0294a\u02d0], which means:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. dumbness, inability to speak intelligibly, a dumb person; dumb, silent, still; to stutter and stammer, as a dumb person<br \/>\n2. dwarf, small person; dwarfish, small<br \/>\n3. demented, panic-stricken<br \/>\n4. booby bird.<br \/>\n5. male \u02bb\u014d\u02bb\u014d bird<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/wehewehe.org\">Hawaiian Dictionaries<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This shows the importance of the <em>\u02bbokina<\/em> (&#8220;cutting&#8221;) and <em>kahak\u014d<\/em> (&#8220;long mark&#8221;) in Hawaiian. The former represents a glottal stop [\u0294] and is a letter in Hawaiian, and the latter indicates a long vowel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Hawaiian word that is used in English is a&#8217;a, which is defined as &#8220;a kind of rough-surface volcanic rock&#8221; [source]. However in Hawaiian it is written \u02bba\u02bb\u0101, pronounced [\u0294\u0259\u02c8\u0294a\u02d0] and means: 1. to burn, blaze, glow; fire; staring (eyes) 2. lava; stony, abounding with \u02bba\u02bb\u0101 lava 3. Sirius (the star) 4. young stage of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,120,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-hawaiian","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}