Hawaiian Dictionary

Hawaiian-English & English-Hawaiian
Revised and Enlarged Edition

Mary Kawena Pukui & Samuel H. Elbert

572 Pages, ISBN 978 0 8248 0703 0     
Published by the University of Hawai'i Press 1957     
revised and enlarged edition 1986     


For many years, Hawaiian Dictionary has been the definitive and authoritative work on the Hawaiian language. Now this indispensable reference volume has been enlarged and completely revised. More than 3,000 new entries have been added to the Hawaiian-English section, bringing the total number of entries to almost 30,000 and making it the largest and most complete of any Polynesian dictionary. Other additions and changes in this section include: a method of showing stress groups to facilitate pronunciation of Hawaiian words with more than three syllables; indications of parts of speech; current scientific names of plants; use of metric measurements; additional reconstructions; classical origins of loan words; and many added cross-references to enhance understanding of the numerous nuances of Hawaiian words.

The English Hawaiian section, a complement and supplement to the Hawaiian English section, contains more than 12,500 entries and can serve as an index to hidden riches in the Hawaiian language. This new edition is more than a dictionary. Containing folklore, poetry, and ethnology, it will benefit Hawaiian studies for years to come.

Mary Kawena Pukui, in the course of her long career at the Bishop Museum, translated innumerable Hawaiian legends, chants, and archival materials. Among her many publications are 'Olelo No'eau: Hawaiian Proverbs and Poetical Sayings and Poems of the Hawaiians, co-authored with Alfons L. Korn.

Samuel H. Elbert, professor emeritus of Pacific languages and linguistics, has been the resident authority on Polynesian languages at the University of Hawaii for more than thirty-five years. He is the author of Spoken Hawaiian, Puluwat Dictionary, Dictionary of the Languages of Rennell and Bellona, and other books on Polynesian languages. Dr. Elbert and Mrs. Pukui are the co-authors of Hawaiian Grammar, the definitive grammar of the Hawaiian language, and, with Esther T. Mookini, The Pocket Hawaiian Dictionary, with a Concise Hawaiian Grammar, and Place Names of Hawaii.


(The text above comes from the inner flap of the book)     

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