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Pick up a
crossword and
some Hawaiian

New puzzle book makes
learning language fun

BOOK

Ho'opilipili 'Olelo: Hawaiian Language Crossword Puzzles, Word Search Puzzles & Crossword Dictionary": By Georgiana R. Frayer-Luna (University of Hawai'i Press); ISBN 0-8248-2100-9; paperback; $15.

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Learning is always more fun when play is involved, and this is made clear in Georgiana R. Frayer-Luna's book of Hawaiian-language crossword puzzles and word games.

Puzzles are accompanied by a dictionary of Hawaiian words related to themes such as birds (manu) or taro (kalo).

Clues are given in English for deciphering the meanings of your new vocabulary. If it sticks in your memory, you're on your way to learning Hawaiian.

Here is a sample Ali'i Crossword Puzzle to try. The solution is here.

Words

Note, the glottal stop (okina) counts as one character: ahimakani, auhulihia, aula, haiki, ha'ea, kualapehu, kualu'ula, mila, unahipipi, unahipi'i, uo'o, 'lui.

Clues:

Across

1. Red cords used to decorate a chief's canoe
6. Rare var. kaha'ea, clouds
7. Stunted, sun-baked
8. Mill (tenth part of a cent)
10. Narrow, pinched; limitation, restriction (in fast speech, haiki)
11. Young pipi shellfish

Down

1. Pugilist in the high chief's court, a muscular young man who might also be asked to massage a chiefess
2. Pas/imp. of auhuli
3. Tough
4. racked and peeling, of the soles or of the feet
5. Gasoline
9. Ceremonial feeding by the high chief of the messenger carrying the image of Lono about the island during the makahiki festivals

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