ARTICLE VII. This treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, on the one part; and by the President of the republic of Hawaii, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, in accordance with the constitution of the said republic, on the other; and the ratifications hereof shall be exchanged at Washington as scon as possible. In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the above articles and have hereunto affixed their seals. Done in duplicate at the city of Washington, this sixteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven. APPENDIX B GLOSSARY OF HAWAIIAN WORDS USED IN THIS VOLUME. Pronunciation of Hawaiian Words. The original Hawaiian alphabet, adopted by the first missionaries, contained but twelve letters, five of which were vowels and seven consonants, viz.: a, e, i, o, u, h, k, l, m, n, p, and w. The number of distinct sounds is about sixteen. No distinction was formerly made between the sounds of k and t, or between those of 1 and r. In poetry, however, the sound of t was preferred to that of k. The letter w generally sounds like v between the penult and final syllable of a word. A is sounded as in father, e as in they, i as in marine, o as in note, u as in rule, or as oo in moon. Ai when sounded as a diphthong resembles the English ay, and au the English ou in loud. Besides the sounds mentioned above, there is in many words a guttural break between two vowels, which is represented by an apostrophe in a few common words, to distinguish their meaning, as Kina'u. Every word and every syllable must end in a vowel, and no two consonants occur without a vowel sound between them. The accent of about five sixths of the words in the language is on the penult. A few of the proper names are accented on the final syllable, as Paki', Kiwalao', and Namakeha'. Alexander. a'a (ah-ah), a form of cooled lava stream, consisting of rough blocks piled to a height of twenty to forty feet, the material being brittle but not scoriaceous; contrasted with pahoehoe.-Standard Dictionary. Aloha, love; also used for good-by, good-morning. Aloha hookaawale, adieu. Aloha nui (nū-ē), much or great love. E moe, sleep. Hale (haley), house. He hoka, a failure. He kane, male. He makai, policeman. Imu (ē'mū), a pit for roasting meat. Kahuna (ka-hoo'na), a doctor who uses charms and conjur ing. Kaikamahine (ki-kă-mä-hee-nă), girl. Kamaaina (ka'mi-nă), old resident. Ka make, death. Kanaka (kā-nǎk'-ǎ), man. Kukae pele (kū-kō-pay-ley), a match, bad-smelling fire. Lanai (law-nī), porch or piazza. Lei (lay), wreath or garland. Lois (lō-ē), taro patch or field. Luau (lū-Ŏw), native feast. Mai pake, leprosy. Makai (mă-ki), toward the sea. Malo (má-lō), covering for the lower part of the body, a breech-cloth. Mauka (mow-kee), toward the mountain. Ohia (o-hēē-a), a species of tree or wood. Opiopio, young. Pahoehoe (pay-hoe-hoe), smooth lava flow as contrasted with aa. Pali (pä-lē), cliff, precipice. Pau (pow), done, finished. Pau loa, all done, completed, the end. Pele (pā-lē), fire goddess. Pilikia (pilē-kēa), trouble. Wahahee paha, fishy. Waihine (wi-hē-na), woman. Waihine mare, wife. Wiki wiki (wick-ēē wick-ēē), hurry up, make haste. |