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Pupule
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 Posted - 03/17/2003 : 2:31:14 PM
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Hawaiian language students out there may be interested in the republishing of A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language, by Lorrin Andrews. Sounds like an excellent companion to the standard Hawaiian Dictionary by Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel H. Elbert.
Read more in the Honolulu Advertiser.
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Pauline Leland
`Olu`olu
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Posted - 03/18/2003 : 12:02:48 AM
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| I don't know about either one, but it's heartening that the publisher felt there was a market for a second dictionary. |
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Sarah
`Olu`olu
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Posted - 03/31/2003 : 09:43:58 AM
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Thanks for the heads-up, Andy. I got the dictionary in the mail last week. It is an interesting volume pretty much for the reasons put out in the article: some different and extended definitions dating from a time when Hawaiian was spoken daily by lots of people. It is not as exhaustive a dictionary as Pukui-Elbert, but that was not Andrews' intent. He was called upon to publish, as a help to the public, his personal collection of words from "daily life". One thing of note is that he states he always used native speakers as sources, and written ali'i communications when possible. How the Hawaiians expressed their own views in their own language was important to him, as it differs frequently from how non-natives express their views, coming from a different culture.
It should be, however, (as the editors cautioned) used in conjuction with the Pukui-Elbert dictionary, because what it delivers in terms of interesting definitions, it lacks in terms of now-conventional spelling. The absence of any 'okina and kahakö is especially misleading to those unfamiliar with the words, because the pronunciation of the words is not necessarily clear from looking at the word entry. The thought is presented that Andrews himself did not hear the significance of the 'okina.
I'm happy to have a new edition of one more source. The one in the library is very old and fragile.
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