 | Lorrin Andrews - 1865 - Broj stranica: 576
...Hawaiian everything that relates to their every-day life or to the natural objects with which they were conversant is expressed with a vivacity, a minuteness...Hawaiian was very rich in terms for every variety of clouds. It has names for every species of plant on the mountains or fish in the sea, and is peculiarly... | |
 | 1913 - Broj stranica: 910
...Hawaiian everything that relates to their everyday life or to the natural objects with which they were conversant is expressed with a vivacity, a minuteness...coloring which cannot be reproduced in a foreign tongue. • • • Almost every stick in a native house has its appropriate name. Hence it aoounds in synonyms,... | |
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A few words should be added on the peculiar genius and structure of the Polynesian language in general and of the Hawaiian dialect in particular. It is the law of all Polynesian languages that every word and syllable must end in a vowel, so that no two... 