1. nvs. goods, property, assets, valuables, value, worth, wealth, importance, benefit, estate, use; useful, valuable, rich, costly, financial. (Probably related to wai₄, to retain, rather than to wai₁, water.)
2. n. value. |
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| Ch.4 p.21 para.1 sent.1 | Ma hope iho o ka lilo ʻana o ua wahi kanaka nei i mea nui i mua o ke aliʻi me he kuhina nui lā, a ʻo ia ka hoa kūkā mau o ke aliʻi ma nā mea e leʻaleʻa ai ke aliʻi me ka manaʻo aku o ka poʻe ʻē, e kūkā ana ma nā mea pili i ka ʻāina a me nā waiwai e like me ka mea mau i ka noho aliʻi ʻana. | After this man had become great before the chief, even his high counsellor, they consulted constantly together about those matters which pleased the chief, while the people thought they discussed the administration of the land and of the substance which pertained to the chief; |
| Ch.4 p.23 para.3 sent.2 | ʻŌlelo akula ke aliʻi i kona hoa kūkā, “Ma kēia ʻona ʻawa o kāua, ʻaʻole i waiwai iki.” | Said the chief to his counsellor, "No good at all has come from this awa drinking of ours." |
| Ch.4 p.23 para.4 sent.1 | ʻĪ maila kona hoa kūkā, “Pehea lā kā hoʻi ka waiwai o ka ʻona ʻawa? | The counsellor answered, "'What is the good of awa drinking? |
| Ch.4 p.23 para.4 sent.2 | Kainoa ʻo ka ʻona nō kona waiwai, ʻo ka māhuna ʻāluʻa.” | I thought the good of drinking was that admirable scaley look of the skin?" |
| Ch.4 p.23 para.5 sent.1 | ʻĪ maila ke aliʻi, “ʻAʻole hoʻi paha ʻo ia, ʻo ka ʻike akula hoʻi paha lā iā Lāʻieikawai, a laila, waiwai ka ʻona ʻana o ka ʻawa.” | Said the chief, "Not so, but to see Laieikawai, that is the good of awa drinking." |
| Ch.4 p.23 para.6 sent.2 | ʻAʻole naʻe ke aliʻi i ʻike i ka waiwai o ia hana ʻana, no laila, hoʻopau ihola ke aliʻi i ia hana. | but he gained nothing by it, so he quit it. |
| Ch.4 p.24 para.6 sent.4 | ʻO ia ihola nō ka waiwai a ke kamaʻāina. | That is the wealth of the people of this place. |
| Ch.8 p.44 para.6 sent.4 | I kali ʻoukou a i ao kēia pō a i pō ka lā ʻapōpō, a laila, ua waiwai mākou. | If you wait until this night becomes day and day becomes night, then we prosper; |
| Ch.9 p.47 para.1 sent.1 | Ma hope iho o ka manawa i hōʻole ʻia ai ko ke aliʻi kāne makemake, a laila ʻōlelo akula ʻo ʻAiwohikupua i kona kuhina, “E hoʻi kāua a e noho nā kaikuahine oʻu i uka nei, a na lākou nō e ʻimi aʻe i ko lākou wahi e noho ai, no ka mea ʻaʻole a lākou waiwai. | After this refusal, then Aiwohikupua said to his counsellor, "You and I will go home and let my sisters stay up here; as for them, let them live as they can, for they are worthless; |
| Ch.9 p.50 para.4 sent.2 | Eia wale nō ka ʻōlelo i koe, ʻo nā kaikuahine o kāua, e noho lākou i ka nāhelehele nei, no ka mea, ʻaʻohe a lākou waiwai.” | only one word more — our sisters. let them stay here in the jungle, for they are worthless. |
| Ch.22 p.116 para.2 sent.6 | A loaʻa iā ʻoe ka pōmaikaʻi, a kuʻi mai i oʻu nei ka lono ua waiwai ʻoe, a laila, ʻimi aku wau.” | and if you succeed well, and I hear of your prosperity, then I will come to seek you." |
| Ch.27 p.141 para.3 sent.1 | Iā lāua i hiki aku ai, ʻaʻole lāua i ʻike iā Mokukelekahiki, ke kiaʻi nāna e mālama ko Kaʻōnohiokalā waiwai, kona kuhina nui hoʻi i loko o Keʻalohilani. | When they arrived they did not see Mokukelekahiki, the guard who watches over Kaonohiokala's wealth, his chief counsellor in The Shining Heavens; |
| Ch.28 p.155 para.2 sent.1 | A pau kēia mau mea, hoʻi ihola ʻo ia ma ke ala āna i piʻi aku ai, hoʻokahi malama, a hālāwai ihola me Kihanuilūlūmoku, haʻi akula i ka huaʻōlelo, “Ua pono kāua, ua waiwai nō hoʻi.” | These words ended, she returned by the same way that she had climbed up, and within one month found Kihanuilulumoku and told all briefly, "We are all right; we have prospered." |
| Ch.32 p.175 para.8 sent.1 | ʻĪ aku ʻo Kapūkaʻihaoa, “I ʻae aku au e lilo ʻoe i ka mea ʻē no kuʻu nele i ka haʻawina waiwai o ko kāne, no ka mea, ma kuʻu maka ponoʻī nei nō ka waiwai a ko kāne i hāʻawi aʻe ai, a ʻo wau nō ke kū. | Said Kapukaihaoa, "I allowed you to be another's because your husband gave me no gifts; for in my very face your husband's gifts were given to others; there I stood, |
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