pāʻina

Hawaiian

Etymology

The -na element is a common nominalizing suffix, although there is no corresponding verb *pāʻi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paːˈʔi.na/, [paːˈʔi.nə]

Noun

pāʻina

1. meal
2. dinner
3. small dinner party

Usage notes

• Formerly was used to mean a traditional Hawaiian feast until that meaning was replaced by luʻau in the mid-nineteenth century.

Verb

pāʻina

1. (transitive) to eat a pāʻina

References

• Elbert, Samuel H., Pukui, Mary Kawena (1979) Hawaiian Grammar, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, page 82
• Pukui, Mary Kawena; Samuel H. Elbert (1986), Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, →ISBN, p. 303