Life

Ola

Body

Kino

Health

Ola Kino

"Life of the body"

Ahuahu, Ehuehu, E‘ehu

Healthy, vigorous; strength and vigor

Kā‘ala‘ala

Vigorous, sturdy

Sickness

Ma‘i

Kala

This is an old word meaning “To bind up; to gird on, as one’s loose garment with a sash; to bind round." Leilani explains, “things that ‘eha [hurt], and that over time are bounded like a sash to one’s ‘uhane, squeezing the life force, breath.”

Ho‘opa‘ipa‘i ‘Aumakua

Sickness due to displeasure of the family god

ʻEha

Hurt, in pain, painful, aching, sore, pained; pain, injury, ailment, suffering

Healing

Lapa‘au

Medical practice; to treat with medicine, heal, cure

Ho‘ōla

To save, heal, cure, spare

Lonopūhā

Art of healing, especially of wounds, abscesses

Kōhi

To fill or heal, of a wound

Ho‘oponopono

"The act of setting right," a traditional practice for conflict resolution

Pālā‘au

To heal, as with herbs

Medicine

Lā‘au

Death

Make

Spirit

‘Uhane
‘Unihipili

A living person's spirit;
Spirit of a deceased person

Corpse

Kupapa‘u