Uevolu
uevolu
- (n.) smoke
- (adj.) smoky, smoking
- (v.) to be smoky, for it to be smoky, for something to emit smoke
Avi i uevolu ape i kava.
“Where there’s smoke there’s fire.”
Notes: There aren’t many basic Kamakawi words that are tetrasyllabic. Most of them begin with either an i or a u, which, when occurring before a vowel, ordinarily become y and w respectively. The only place where they don’t is in word-initial environments where they retain their vocalic quality. I half-decided that this is what happened to word-initial glides, and I half-stand by that half-decision.
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