Worttrennung:

wai·lele

Bedeutungen:

[1] Katarakt, Wasserfall, Wassersturz; Kaskade

Herkunft:

Kompositum aus wai → hawWasser[1] und lele → hawfliegen, springen[2][3]; wortwörtlich „hervorspringendes Wasser[4]

Synonyme:

[1] veraltet: waihi

Übersetzungen

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[1] Mary Kawena Pukui, Samuel H. Elbert: Hawaiian Dictionary. Hawaiian–English, English–Hawaiian. Revised and enlarged edition. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 1986, ISBN 978-0-824-80703-0. Stichwort „wailele“.
[1] Lorrin Andrews: A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language, to which is appended an English-Hawaiian Vocabulary and a chronological table of remarkable events. Honolulu: Henry M. Whitney, 1865. Stichwort „wailele“.

Quellen:

  1. Mary Kawena Pukui, Samuel H. Elbert: Hawaiian Dictionary. Hawaiian–English, English–Hawaiian. Revised and enlarged edition. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 1986, ISBN 978-0-824-80703-0. Stichwort „wai“.
  2. Mary Kawena Pukui, Samuel H. Elbert: Hawaiian Dictionary. Hawaiian–English, English–Hawaiian. Revised and enlarged edition. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 1986, ISBN 978-0-824-80703-0. Stichwort „lele“.
  3. Lorrin Andrews: A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language, to which is appended an English-Hawaiian Vocabulary and a chronological table of remarkable events. Honolulu: Henry M. Whitney, 1865. Stichwort „wailele“.
  4. Mary Kawena Pukui, Samuel H. Elbert: Hawaiian Dictionary. Hawaiian–English, English–Hawaiian. Revised and enlarged edition. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 1986, ISBN 978-0-824-80703-0. Stichwort „wailele“.