Inoa | Name(s)

Honuaʻula

Hiʻona ʻāina | Land characteristic: Moku

Hiʻona ʻāina o loko o kēia wahi | Feature(s) located within this place: Kalihi; Kaloi; Kanahena; Kanaio; Keauho; Kualapa; Mohopilo; Palauea; Papaka Kai; Papaka Uka; Papaʻanui

Hiʻona ʻāina nona kēia wahi | Feature(s) that contain this place: Maui

Hōʻuluʻulu manaʻo

He moku kēia ma ka mokupuni o Maui. Aia ma ka ʻaoʻao hema o ka mokupuni. Ma ka ʻaoʻao hikina, aia ka moku o Kahikinui, a aia ma ka ʻaoʻao ʻākau ka moku o Kula. ʻŌlelo ʻia kēia no Honuaʻula: “Honuaʻula, e pāluku ʻia ana na kihi poʻohiwi e nā ʻale o ka Moaʻe,” no ka nui o ka makani ma laila, a me “Honuaʻula kua laʻolaʻo,” no ka poʻe ma laila ma muli o ka hana nui o lākou. Ma ka wā kahiko, ma ke kula o kēia wahi, ulu aʻela nā kumu lāʻau kou. ʻO Ulupalakua kahi hānai holoholona kaulana loa ma kēia wahi. Aia ka mokupuni ʻo Kahoʻolawe ma kēia moku. 

Description

Congregational church at Ka-naio and a nearby land division, Mākena qd., Maui (Coulter map, p. 229; RC 85). (Place Names of Hawaiʻi)

ʻŌlelo kuhikuhi

E koho iā “Honuaʻula” no ka moku o kēia inoa ma ka mokupuni o Maui.

Instructions

Use for the moku called Honuaʻula on the island of Maui.

Hana | Practice: Mahiʻai; Lawaiʻa 

Kūmole | Source(s)

“Honuaʻula,” Inoa ʻĀina Hawaiʻi Database, Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library.

Pukui, Mary Kawena. ’Olelo No’eau : Hawaiian Proverbs & Poetical Sayings. Honolulu, Hawai’i: Bishop Museum Press, 1983.

Pukui, Mary Kawena, Samuel H. (Samuel Hoyt) Elbert, and Esther T. Mookini. Place Names of Hawaii. Rev. and enl. Ed. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1976. Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library.

Sterling, Elspeth P. Sites of Maui. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1998.

Hoʻopili ʻia i | Applied to: Honuaula, Registered Map 1779 : Honuaula District, Maui

Mea haku | Created by: Na ka hui ʻimi naʻauao o Ka Wai Hāpai