| 1258 | I puni iā ʻoe o Lānaʻi a i ʻike ʻole iā Lānaʻi-Kaʻula me Lānaʻi-Hale, ʻaʻohe nō ʻoe i ʻike iā Lānaʻi. | If you have gone around Lānaʻi, and have not seen Lānaʻi Kaʻula and Lānaʻi Hale, you have not seen all of Lānaʻi. |
| 1763 | Ke kū nō a Maui; ke kiʻei nō a Lānaʻi; ka moe nō a Molokaʻi; ka noho nō a Oʻahu. | Maui stands; Lānaʻi peers in; Molokaʻi sleeps; Oʻahu sits. |
| | [Said of people who stand about, look on, go to sleep and sit around, but who do not lend a hand with work.] |
| 1943 | Lānaʻi a Kaululāʻau. | Lānai of Kaululāʻau. |
| | [Said in admiration of Lānaʻi. Kaululāʻau was a Maui chief banished to Lānaʻi by his father for destroying his breadfruit grove. By trickery Kaululāʻau destroyed the island’s evil spirits and became its ruler.] |
| 1944 | Lānaʻi a ke aea. | Lānai raises its face. |
| | [A rude expression for the people of Lānaʻi. Once, a Lānaʻi chief was conquered in battle, and the conqueror offered him either humiliation or death. He was to choose between kissing his conqueror’s penis or receiving a death clout on the head with a club. He chose humiliation, and as he bent to kiss the penis, he lifted his face quickly in distaste. Hence this saying. His relatives were ashamed, for they felt he should have chosen death and retained his dignity as a chief.] |
| 1945 | Lānaʻi i ke ʻehu o ke kai. | Lānaʻi stands among the sea sprays. |
| 1946 | Lānaʻi poʻo kūkae moa. | Lānaʻi, with head smeared with chicken dung. |
| | [Said of the kauā of Lānaʻi.] |
| 2103 | Make auaneʻi i ka moana a pae kupapaʻu i Lānaʻi. | May probahly die at sea and his corpse wash ashore on Lānaʻi. |
| | [Refers to a person on a very hazardous venture.] |
| 2315 | Niniu Molokaʻi, poahi Lānaʻi. | Molokaʻi revolves, Lānaʻi sways. |
| | [A description of the revolving of the hips and the swaying movements in hula.] |
