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Tohi
Omotohi, full (of the moon);
ku-omotohiá te mahina, the moon is full. Vanaga.
Mgv.: tohi, to cut breadfruit
paste. Ta.: tohi, a chisel, to cut, to split.
Mq.: tohi, to cut up. Sa.: tofi, a chisel,
to split. Ma.: tohi, to cut, to slice. Churchill.
Ha.: kōhi.
1. To gather, as fruit; to break off neatly, as
taro corm from the stalk with a stick or knife; to
split, as breadfruit; to dig; splitter, as stick, stone,
knife. Nā wāhine kōhi noni, the noni-gathering
women (an insult to Pele, perhaps likening her
disposition to sour noni fruit). (PPN tofi.)
2. Fat, rich, as food; fatness. Nā kōhi kelekele o
Kapu'u-kolu, the rich foods of Ka-pu'u-kolu (Kaua'i,
famous for abundance). 3. To fill or heal, of a wound.
Ke kōhi maila ka 'i'o, the flesh is beginning to
heal. 4. To hold back, check, restrain: to strain,
especially as in childbirth, to travail; to hold or hold
back by pressing a person's arm, as in withholding
consent, or as in urging someone not to be generous;
labor pains, travail. Fig., agony, fear. Cf. haukōhi,
kāohi, ho'o kōhi. Also ha'akōhi. 5.
Prolonged, as a sound; long. He kōhi ka leo, the
sound is long. Wehewehe. |
