Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 6, Number 7, 1 July 1989 — He M au Nīnau Ola [ARTICLE]

He M au Nīnau Ola

Some Health Questions by Kekuni Blaisdell, M.D.

Hawaiian Names and Their Meanings of Major Bones in the Human Body (See Fig. 1)

JAĪ Neek (PNP) Alalo. Lower jaw (PCP) (mandible). Aluna. Upper jaw (PCP) (maxilla). 'Ao'ao. Side, boundary, hemisphere (PPN); group, team; 'aumakua (family god); rib. Hilo. Twist, braid, spin, thread; faint light streak (PPN); first night of new moon; core; thigh bone (femur); last rib. Hoehoe. Paddle (PNP); shoulder blade (scapula). Hope. After, bēhind, younger (PPN); occipital skull boneHua. Fruit, egg, seed, grain, offspring, produce (PPN); testis (PNP); rounded, bulge; result; word (PPN); hipbone (greater trochanter of femur); also parietal bone of the skull. Huamoa. Chicken egg (PPN); head of femur (femoral portion of hip joint). Ihu. Nose; kiss (PPN); nasal bone. Iwilei. Collar bone (PNP) (clavicle); forehead bone (frontal bone). Kā. Pelvis; seat bone (ischium) (See lemu, 'okole). Kano. Large hard stem; tool handle; pole; penis erection; forearm bone (radius). Kikala. Hip; coccyx; buttocks; sliding hips; sacrum (See kā, '5kole, lemu). Kū. Stand; upright; rise; stop; hit; to land; to establish (PPN); major foreleg b>one (tibia). Kuamo'o. Lizard back (PCP); road; custom; eanoe keel; trusted attendant to a chief; backbone (spine) (PCP). Kuapo'i. Cover back; eanoe, crab or turtle cover; a mollusk; knee eap (patella). Kubita. Hawaiianization of cubic; forearm and elbow bone (ulna). No Hawaiian name?

Ku'eku'elima. Hand or arm opposition; elbow, wrist joint; push with elbow (PEP) Ku'eku'ewawae. Foot or leg opposition; ankle joint; heel (See pu'upu'uwawae). Kuli. Knee (PPN); deaf. Lae. Forehead, brow (PPN); promontory (PEP); wisdom; frontal bone. Lemu. Buttocks (PPN); sluggish; ischium (See ka, kikala, 'okole). Lua. Pit; match; mate (FPN); socket of hip joint (acetabulum) (See also Huamoa). Maha. Side of head (PNP); gill, wingof fish; rest; twin; temporal bone. Makalua. Two eyes, two-fāced, double mesh, two-fold; eyeball socket (orbit). Manamanalima. Hand hpneh, finger (PPN). Manamanawawae. Foot branch, toe (PPN). 'Ōkole. Anus; buttocks (PCP); tailbone (coQcyx) (See kā, klkala, lemu). 'Ope'ape'a. Twist, bind, cross hands; throw> over; deceive, starfish; bat; flutter; parietal bone: and or sphenoid bone of skull (See hua). Pāpākole. Raw flat; Wp, hipbone; buttocks; ilium bone of pelvis (See ka, klkala, lemu, 'ōkole). Pāpālina. Soft face; eheek, cheekbone (PEP) (zygoma). Pe'ahilima. Hand fan; open hand; beckon with hand; hand bones (metacarpals). Pe'ahiwawae. Foot fan; forefoot bones (metatarsals). Pili. Cling, stick, adhere, adjoin (PPN); wager; lateral, slender bone of foreleg (fibula). Puhaka. Space between; vacant; loins. waist, flank; spine at waist (lumbar spine). Pūlima. Wrist; clasp hands; handwriting; fire for treatment of the sick; wrist.

Pu'ukole. Raw prominence; hip, buttocks; mons pubis, pubic bone (pubis). Pu'upu'uwawae. Foot or leg prominence; ankle (malleolus). Uluna. Head support; pillow (PPN); upper arm, upper arm bone (humerus). Umauma. Anterior chest, breast; midline breast bone (PPN, PCP) (stemum).